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50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2

Field	Value
name	50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2
type	live
artist	John Zorn & Milford Graves
cover	50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2.jpg
released
recorded
genre	Downtown music, avant-garde jazz
length
label	Tzadik
producer	John Zorn
prev_title	50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1
prev_year	2004
next_title	50th Birthday Celebration Volume 3
next_year	2003

50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2 is a live album of improvised music by Milford Graves and John Zorn documenting their performance at Tonic in September 2003 as part of Zorn's month-long 50th Birthday Celebration concert series.

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars. The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz called the album "a delightfully old-fashioned free-jazz blowout", and wrote: "Zorn reasserts himself as a player in this context with insouciant ease, and Graves is as magisterial as ever."

Track listing

Personnel

John Zorn – alto saxophone
Milford Graves – drums, percussion

References

[http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=5002 Tzadik catalogue]
(2008). "[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz". [[Penguin Books.
[http://www.allmusic.com/album/milford-graves-and-john-zorn-50th-birthday-celebration-mw0000328088 Allmusic Album Entry] accessed November 22, 2013.

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