| 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 |
| Prev Title: | The Art of Memory |
| Prev Year: | 1994 |
| Next Title: | The Art of Memory II |
| Next Year: | 2008 |
| Misc: | |
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.[1]
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."[2]