Thanks to the 200+ among you who packed the Regattabar on July 30. What an incredibly tuned-in crowd! We'll have to keep meeting like that. Next up: Wednesday, August 20: the Either/Orchestra with special guests Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete at
Mahmoud and Alemayehu are two incredible singers whose careers stretch back to the 60s in Addis Ababa, but who can still bring it! In our Lincoln Center debut, our set is the middle of a nice triple bill, with Extra Golden opening at 6 pm, and The Ex with Getachew Mekurya finishing things off at 8:30. Friday, August 22: the E/O with Mahmoud, Alemayehu and Mulatu Astatke at the It's sold out, sorry. However, at least some of the show will be broadcast on Irish RTE TV and radio. As most of you know, our brother and conguero Vicente Lebron, has been incarcerated by the INS, and we raised funds to help him with legal and other expenses. Thanks to your generous contributions, we have a raised a good war chest, but it's a long fight and he can always use more Details
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The Either/Orchestra's first DVD, a documentary of the band's first collaboration with the great Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed
Double CD set out now in North America, most of Europe, Japan and Australia
"Astonishing...monumental...the best live album of the year—in any genre" –Paul Olson, AllAboutJazz.com
"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 Read full review "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 "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
"I have seen the future of big-band music, and it is this 10-piece band from Boston." "The leading little big-band in the jazz world." "A world-class ensemble." "Worldwide, the Either/Orchestra has precious few rivals." "This amazing ensemble does just about everything right." |
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