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Live Review

Either/Orchestra: New York City, February 11, 2011

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Either/OrchestraLe Poisson Rouge New York, NYFebruary 11, 2011 If you graduated school to work for a law firm or a contracting company, your reunion would probably not be a raucous or joyous event. However, if you and your classmates went on to be the employees of Lee Konitz, Lester Bowie, Sam Rivers, Nnenna Freelon and Morphine--and if one of you founded your own company, called Medeski, Martin & Wood--there'd certainly be cause to celebrate. ...

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Album Review

Either/Orchestra: Mood Music for Time Travelers

Read "Mood Music for Time Travelers" reviewed by Ian Patterson


As saxophonist/founder Russ Gershon has noted, the 25-year history of the Either/Orchestra constitutes a quarter of jazz's eventful history. The changes in this large ensemble's music in part reflect wider trends and at the same time are the results of an organic evolution as members have come and gone. In the early years, Gershon plumbed the jazz cannon for repertory in addition to composing original material. However, arrangements of songs by Bob Dylan, Bing Crosby and Robert Fripp pointed to ...

Album Review

Either/Orchestra: Mood Music for Time Travellers

Read "Mood Music for Time Travellers" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Dopo la felicissima perentesi africana del 2005 (documentata dal vivo in Live in Addis ma gia' presente in parte su Afro-cubism) l'orchestra di Russ Gershon celebra i 25 anni d'attività con un nuovo album, l'undicesimo. È certamente un bel traguardo, su cui nessuno avrebbe scommesso quando l'organico si mise assieme, quasi per gioco a casa del sax tenore, complici “una cassa di birra e degli spartiti". Gershon è un bandleader e arrangiatore versatile e aperto, che guarda con interesse alle ...

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Album Review

Either/Orchestra: Mood Music for Time Travellers

Read "Mood Music for Time Travellers" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


The past 25 years have been a time of transition for The Either/Orchestra. Members have come and gone and come back again. Their music has imbibed several styles and genres and grown all the richer. One of the sagest moves they made was the long, and fruitful, collaboration with Ethiopian music and with musicians that included Mahmoud Ahmed, Getachew Mekurya and Mulatu Astatke,For this recording, Russ Gershon wrote a couple of tunes geared to the organ after he ...

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Album Review

Either/Orchestra: Mood Music For Time Travellers

Read "Mood Music For Time Travellers" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


A sense of calm and well-being pervades the Either/Orchestra's Mood Music For Time Travellers, investing its ten tunes with a warmth and good humor that makes the music immediately accessible, and also hides some of the compositions' complexities. It's a calm that comes from experience and confidence, this album celebrating Either/Orchestra's 25th year. The Massachusetts-based group, led by saxophonist and composer Russ Gershon, has a strong reputation for its work with Ethiopian musicians on albums such as ...

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Multiple Reviews

Jazz & Ethiopia: Etenesh & Le Tigre & Mahmoud Ahmed & Either/Orchestra

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Eténèsh Wassié & Le Tigre (des Platanes) Eténèsh Wassié & Le Tigre (des Platanes) Budamusique 2007 Mahmoud Ahmed & Either/Orchestra Mahmoud Ahmed & Either/Orchestra Budamusique 2007

Ethiopia, the first African country to gain independence, has a rich musical heritage of native songs and instruments and state-sponsored brass bands, mixed with various ...

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Film Review

Mahmoud Ahmed & Either/Orchestra: Ethiogroove

Read "Mahmoud Ahmed & Either/Orchestra: Ethiogroove" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Mahmoud Ahmed & Either/Orchestra Ethiogroove Buda Musique 2007

Either/Orchestra has found a unique groove in Ethiopian music. Russ Gershon, the leader of the 10- piece big band, included three Ethiopian tunes on the ensemble's CD, More Beautiful Than Death (Accurate Records, 2000). Gershon continued to incorporate Ethiopian music into the band's repertoire. In 2004, Either/Orchestra traveled to Addis to play at a concert with Ethiopian musicians. The exciting and energetic performance is ...


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