We're back from Italy, where our concert at Teatro Manzoni in Milan was a smash. It sold out in advance, and we managed to keep the Milanese crowd away from their Sunday lunch for almost an extra hour of music. (If you've every had lunch in Milano, you'll understand that this is no mean feet!)
We'd like to give big thanks to Aperitivo in Concerto Artistic Director Gianni Gualberto and theater administrator Vivianna Allocchio for their efforts in making this wonderful concert happen, and for being warm and generous hosts, and of course we thank our guests, Mahmoud Ahmed and Mulatu Astatke.
Our next show will be on April 24 at the Regattabar in Cambridge MA
Right now we're scheduled for one show, at 7:30, but if advance ticket sales warrant it, we'll add a later show.
People have been asking: "Where are the music samples on your site?" The answer: try our Myspace page,
or our MP3 store at Amazon.com, where they have samples of almost every track from every album.
Excellent price right now on our Ethiopiques 20: Live in Addis double CD, at Allegro Music: only $15.97 for a double CD set with a luxurious 32 page color booklet.
Book the E/O, Russ Gershon's Mood Elevator or Intimate Ensemble
Mood Elevator is a five to eight piece party band playing music for all moods. The Intimate Ensemble is a tenor sax-bass-drums trio playing hard core jazz for all audiences. For bookings
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Read a review of our recent concert in Oakland California
Read a wonderful fan letter about a 2007 performance
Latest Release!
Ethiogroove DVD: Mahmoud Ahmed and the Either/Orchestra
Buda Musique 860121
The Either/Orchestra's first DVD, a documentary of the band's first collaboration with the great Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed
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Previous Release!
Ethiopiques 20: Live in Addis
Buda Musique 860121

Double CD set out now in North America, most of Europe, Japan and Australia
Free download of "Yezamed Yebada"
"Astonishing...monumental...the best live album of the yearin any genre" Paul Olson, AllAboutJazz.com
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"Live in Addis is a total triumph as music, once again, is shown to be able to bring together diverse peoples in mutual love."
Budd Kopman, AllAboutJazz.com
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"An amazingly great set from Either/Orchestra easily their finest album ever...
a wicked batch of Ethiopian funk!" dustygroove.com
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"Incredible" Tim Perlich, Now Magazine, Toronto
"[A] completely remarkable recording...I think the performance of Shellela is actually the greatest recorded example of an ecstatic
and informed audience response to supreme jazz in the history of recorded jazz...
give five stars to the audience and musicians both. This recording is the flower of their profound embrace."
Norman Weinstein, AllAboutJazz.com
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"Sends the senses into the very heart and soul
of communal human love...A force that dares to break barriers." -Lofton A. Emenari III, WHPK, Chicago
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Press release for Live in Addis
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Mulatu Astatke, Jeremy Udden, Kurtis Rivers & Russ Gershon
at the Regent Theatre, Arlington MA, Nov. 10, 2004
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Previous Release!
NEO-MODERNISM
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-Chris Heim, Chicago Tribune
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-K. Leander Williams, TimeOut New York
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-Tom Surowicz, Twin Cities Reader
"This amazing ensemble does just about everything right."
-Richard Gehr, Village Voice
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