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Getting it live: Boston's Spring jazz preview

Two of the most adventurous and enduring of Boston bands, both coming off banner years in which they celebrated their 25th anniversaries, are pushing hard into spring.
Singing and more in the clubs
By JON GARELICK  |  March 18, 2011

Video Exclusive: Either/Orchestra, “The (One of a Kind) Shimmy”


After a decade dominated by their explorations of Ethiopian jazz, the Either/Orchestra have returned on Mood Music for Time Travellers (Accurate), their first album in...
By Jon Garelick  |  September 03, 2010
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Time travelers(1)

Trumpeter Tom Halter is wearing one of his snazzy mariachi outfits (black vest and pants with white embroidery). Russ Gershon is retouching his own make-up to get some of the green out (“I don’t look so much like a corpse now”).
The Either/Orchestra go to Groovy World, plus Ameranouche and Shelley Neill dig their Gypsy souls
By JON GARELICK  |  July 16, 2010
Either/Orchestra at Regattabar

Either/Orchestra at Regattabar


Boston’s inimitable 10-piece Either/Orchestra — whose various explorations have included a Grammy-nominated melding of Benny Moten and Charles Mingus, a jazz arrangement of King Crimson’s “Red,”...
By webteam  |  April 21, 2010
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Sonny, Pat, and all the cats

The primo jazz event of the spring will be SONNY ROLLINS 's concert at Symphony Hall on April 18 (bso.org). The great master saxophonist and peerless improviser often hits town in April, and this time it's to kick off his 80th-birthday tour. Whew.
Names you know and names you should
By JON GARELICK  |  March 12, 2010
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Ethiopiqued

Last spring, Danny Mekonnen and Jonah Rapino led Boston's fledgling Ethiopian pop group Debo Band straight to Addis Ababa. They played a local festival, made friends with nightclub owners, and found an Ethiopian Airlines deal for a free trip down the c
Debo Band go from the Western Front to East Africa
By MATT PARISH  |  January 29, 2010
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Jeremy Udden | Plainville

Saxophonist and composer Udden (formerly of NEC and the Either/Orchestra) here dives deeper into the jazz-pop connections he began to explore in his 2006 debut as a leader, Torchsongs .
Fresh Sound New Talent (2009)
By JON GARELICK  |  July 31, 2009
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Bouncement 3

Lately it’s seemed like Old Home Days for Toneburst, the influential artcore junglist collective that was a locus of Boston’s underground dance scene in the mid ’90s.

. . . and other singular beats
By SUSANNA BOLLE  |  April 08, 2008