| 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 10 | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | John Zorn and Yamataka Eye |
| Cover: | 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 10.jpg |
| Released: | January 25, 2005 |
| Recorded: | September 15, 2003 |
| Genre: | Downtown music Avant-garde jazz |
| Length: | 44:21 |
| Label: | Tzadik TZ 5010 |
| Producer: | John Zorn |
| Chronology: | John Zorn |
| Prev Title: | 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 9 |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | Rituals |
| Next Year: | 2005 |
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 10 is a live album of improvised music by Yamataka Eye and John Zorn documenting their performance at Tonic in September 2003 as part of John Zorn's month-long 50th Birthday Celebration concert series.[1] Guitarist Fred Frith also appears on one track.
The Allmusic listing rated the album 3½ stars.[2] Pitchfork reviewer Cameron Macdonald gave the album 7.1 out of 10 stating "Listening to their new work was masochistic for me. High-pitched tones disturb me, and Zorn cleared my sinuses with one of the more horrific squeals caught live on tape in the 50th Birthday closer."[3]
The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz called the album "mysterious", and wrote: "credit should be given to technician Sawai Taeji, who does quite extraordinary things with Eye's electronics: we have never heard a performance quite like it, and it is nothing like the screamfest which might have been expected."