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"What [I] love so much about this group is their ability to take totally serious music and make it fun...the sense of groove and joy is overpowering."
–Mark Saleski, somethingelsereviews.com

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CD Release Party at the Regattabar, Cambridge MA on September 11!
Buy tickets for the 7:30 show or the 10:00 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 previous release, 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.

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Read a wonderful fan letter about a 2007 performance

The E/O's first DVD!
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 year—in 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


2003 release:

NEO-MODERNISM

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"I have seen the future of big-band music, and it is this 10-piece band from Boston."
-Chris Heim, Chicago Tribune

"The leading little big-band in the jazz world."
-Bob Blumenthal, Boston Globe

"A world-class ensemble."
-K. Leander Williams, TimeOut New York

"Worldwide, the Either/Orchestra has precious few rivals."
-Tom Surowicz, Twin Cities Reader

"This amazing ensemble does just about everything right."
-Richard Gehr, Village Voice