50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5

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Name = 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 5
Type = Live Album
Artist = John Zorn & Fred Frith


Released = June 29, 2004
Recorded = September 15, 2003
Genre = Downtown music
Avant-garde jazz
Length = 44:53
Label = Tzadik
Producer = John Zorn
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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. [ [http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=5005 Tzadik catalogue] ]

Track listing

# "Off Topic" - 7:29
# "Alecto" - 3:56
# "Sowers of Discord" - 3:54
# "Four Corners" - 8:14
# "Level Six Jumping" - 4:33
# "Cruel Abstraction" - 6:25
# "Eumenides Outside the Window" - 6:54
# "Nine-part Invention" - 4:37
# "Cord Trouble and Tuning" - 1:38
# "Astrologers and Magicians" - 6:31

:All compositions by John Zorn/Fred Frith

*Produced by John Zorn

Personnel

*John Zorn: alto saxophone
*Fred Frith: guitars

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