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Either/Orchestra: Ethiopiques 20: Live in Addis
by Jerry D'Souza
In January 2004, the Either/Orchestra went to Ethiopia to play at the Ethiopian Music Festival. The band has always been flexible in its vision, and so it comes as no surprise that the group decided to play Ethiopian music (the musicians were already familiar with it, having recorded “The Ethiopian Suite on More Beautiful Than Death). ...
Yezamed Yebada
Album: Live in Addis
By Either/Orchestra
Label: Buda Musique
Released: 0
Duration: 8:05
The Perfect Jazz Audience on Record... From Ethiopia
by Norman Weinstein
Not to add to the many rave reviews that have been justly offered on this site, I want to concentrate on just two facets of this completely remarkable recording. Worthy of this narrow a focus is “Shellela," a nearly eight minute “concerto" for the Ethiopian saxophonist Getachew Mekurya and the Either/Orchestra, and the audience response heard ...
Either/Orchestra: Ethiopiques 20: Live in Addis
by Budd Kopman
Live in Addis, the latest release by the Either/Orchestra, provides a superb example of the way Russ Gershon, E/O's founder and main composer/arranger, keeps the band fresh and exciting by always moving into new territory and never standing still. The path that led to this historic concert has already been described in these ...
Either/Orchestra: Ethiopiques 20: Live In Addis
by Brian P. Lonergan
A horn lover's paradise exists and it is Addis Ababa. At least, the Ethiopian capital was for one night in January 2004, when the American Either/Orchestra, a proponent of “Ethio-jazz, played a rousing concert at the city's third annual music festival. The fortunate result of that night, the two-CD Live in Addis, is ...
Either/Orchestra: Ethiopiques 20: Live in Addis
by Paul Olson
Here's to the wonders of recorded music and cultural exchange. Either/Orchestra leader Russ Gershon's encounter with the Blue Silver label's Ethiopian Groove album, a compilation of the seminal, brass-packed Ethiopian jazz/pop of the 1970s, led him to arrange some of its pieces as “The Ethiopian Suite. They were recorded by the E/O for the 1999 album ...
Either /Orchestra at the National Theatre in Kampala
by Philip Songa
If ever there was any doubt that music is a universal language then the combination of eight Americans, one Dominican Republican, one guy from Surinam and one Ugandan playing music from Ethiopia in Uganda in moving style ought to remove the last vestiges of such doubt. That is exactly the kind of reassurance that was given ...
Neo-Modernism
Label: Accurate Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Los Olvidados, Baby Invents Monk, The Modernist, Fast Edd, Heavily Amplified Hairpiece
Either/Orchestra Handles All Tough Turns of Jazz Road
by R.J. DeLuke
Saxophonist Russ Gershon is on the horns of a dilemma with his sparkling band, the Either/Orchestra, the rock-solid 10-piece organization that churns out all kinds of music. The surprising sounds are steeped in jazz, but like a Luis Tiant pitch, the thunder the band emits can come from just about any angle. Critics have loved them. ...
Either/Orchestra: Neo-Modernism
by Dan McClenaghan
It's puzzle why the ten man Either/Orchestra, under the leadership of saxophonist Russ Gershon, is still something of an underground outfit. They've been through fifteen years and eight albums, the spawning of careers of several first rate jazz men, including John Medeski and Charlie Kohlhase, and scores of great live performances. The groups's last ...
