50th Birthday Celebration Volume 8

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Name = 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 8
Type = Live Album
Artist = John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith, Susie Ibarra


Released = October 19, 2004
Recorded = September 22, 2003
Genre = Downtown music
Avant-garde jazz
Length = 76:00
Label = Tzadik
Producer = John Zorn
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"50th Birthday Celebration Volume 8" is a live album of improvised music by Susie Ibarra, Wadada Leo Smith 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=5008 Tzadik catalogue] ]

Track listing

# Meridian - 4:19
# Rising Sign - 7:01
# Spirit Writing - 6:09
# By the Mark, Eight - 7:06
# Visitation - 8:33
# Ipsissimi - 15:59
# Ghost Writing - 11:59
# The Ascending Arc - 8:02
# Full Fathom Five - 6:50

:Tracks 1-5 by John Zorn/Susie Ibarra, Tracks 6-7 & 9 by John Zorn/Susie Ibarra/Wadada Leo Smith, Track 8 by John Zorn/Wadada Leo Smith

*Produced by John Zorn

Personnel

*John Zorn: Alto Saxophone
*Susie Ibarra: Drums (Tracks 1-7 & 9)
*Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet (Tracks 6-9)

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