50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5
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{{Infobox album |
| name = 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5
| type = live
| artist = John Zorn and Fred Frith
| cover = 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5.jpg
| released = June 29, 2004
| recorded = September 15, 2003
| venue = Tonic, New York City
| genre = Downtown music
Avant-garde jazz
| length = 44:53
| label = Tzadik TZ 5005
| producer = John Zorn
| compiler =
| prev_title = The Art of Memory
| prev_year = 1994
| next_title = The Art of Memory II
| next_year = 2008
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = John Zorn
| type = live
| prev_title = Masada Recital
| title = 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5
| year = 2004
| prev_year = 2004
| next_title = 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6
| next_year = 2004
}}
{{Extra chronology
| artist = Fred Frith
| type = live
| prev_title = What Leave Behind
| prev_year = 2004
| title = 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5
| year = 2004
| next_title = Eleventh Hour
| next_year = 2005
}}
}}
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 Zorn's month-long 50th Birthday Celebration concert series.[http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=5005 Tzadik catalogue]
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."Westergaard, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/50th-birthday-vol-5-mw0000224655 Allmusic Review] accessed June 6, 2020
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
}}
Track listing
{{Tracklist
| all_writing = John Zorn and Fred Frith
| title1 = Off Topic
| length1 = 7:29
| title2 = Alecto
| length2 = 3:56
| title3 = Sowers of Discord
| length3 = 3:54
| title4 = Four Corners
| length4 = 8:14
| title5 = Level Six Jumping
| length5 = 4:33
| title6 = Cruel Abstraction
| length6 = 6:25
| title7 = Eumenides Outside the Window
| length7 = 6:54
| title8 = Nine-part Invention
| length8 = 4:37
| title9 = Cord Trouble and Tuning
| length9 = 1:38
| title10 = Astrologers and Magicians
| length10 = 6:31
}}
;*Recorded live at Tonic in New York City on September 15, 2003
Personnel
References
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Category:2004 collaborative albums
Category:Albums produced by John Zorn
Category:John Zorn live albums
Category:Fred Frith live albums