50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5
| 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5 | |||||
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| Live album by John Zorn and Fred Frith | |||||
| Released | June 29, 2004 | ||||
| Recorded | September 15, 2003 | ||||
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Downtown music Avant-garde jazz | ||||
| Length | 44:53 | ||||
| Label | Tzadik TZ 5005 | ||||
| Producer | John Zorn | ||||
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| John Zorn & Fred Frith chronology | |||||
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50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5 is a live album of improvised music by Fred Frith and John Zorn documenting their performance at Tonic in September, 2003 as part of John Zorn's month-long 50th Birthday Celebration concert series.[1]
Reception
The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard awarded the album 4 stars stating "The interplay is simply amazing. Much of it is what you'd expect from free improv, but there are a handful of beautiful, lyrical moments, like those that close the set. Any fan of free improvisation will be thrilled. It doesn't get much better than this".[2]
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
Track listing
All tracks written by John Zorn and Fred Frith.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Off Topic" | 7:29 |
| 2. | "Alecto" | 3:56 |
| 3. | "Sowers of Discord" | 3:54 |
| 4. | "Four Corners" | 8:14 |
| 5. | "Level Six Jumping" | 4:33 |
| 6. | "Cruel Abstraction" | 6:25 |
| 7. | "Eumenides Outside the Window" | 6:54 |
| 8. | "Nine-part Invention" | 4:37 |
| 9. | "Cord Trouble and Tuning" | 1:38 |
| 10. | "Astrologers and Magicians" | 6:31 |
- Recorded live at Tonic in New York City on September 15, 2003
Personnel
References
- ↑ Tzadik catalogue
- 1 2 Westergaard, S. Allmusic Review accessed August 1, 2011
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