title: 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2
text: # 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.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Allmusic | |
  | The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |
  
  The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars. 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."
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks are written by John Zorn, except where noted.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * John Zorn – alto saxophone
  * Milford Graves – drums, percussion
  