50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2

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.^[1]

50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2
Live album by John Zorn & Milford Graves
Released	March 23, 2004 (2004-03-23)
Recorded	October 8, 2003 (2003-10-08)
Genre	Downtown music, avant-garde jazz
Length	54:17
Label	Tzadik
Producer	John Zorn
John Zorn & Milford Graves chronology
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1 (2004) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2 (2004) 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 3 (2003)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars.^[2] 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."^[3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by John Zorn, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Inserted Space"	8:00
2.	"Looping Journeys"	6:54
3.	"Calling in Proceed"	11:15
4.	"Deep Within"	10:46
5.	"Smooth Interaction"	6:47
6.	"Talk"	2:51
7.	"Synchronicity"	7:39

Personnel

• John Zorn – alto saxophone
• Milford Graves – drums, percussion