Seats are assigned by date of purchase. Tickets purchased the night of the show at the door will be seated first come, first served at remaining tables.
Groups larger than 8 must purchase a group package at regattabar@charleshotel.com or by calling 617-661-5099.
Wed Dec 17 2025
7:30 PM (Doors 7:00 PM)
All Ages
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The Either/Orchestra
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The Either/Orchestra
Jazz
In the decades since the Either/Orchestra debuted on December 17, 1985 at the Cambridge MA Public Library, the group has made over 1000 performances in 38 of the United States and 12 foreign countries, as well as releasing a dozen albums and being nominated for a Grammy, winning five Boston Music awards and numerous Downbeat Critics Poll placements, among many other honors. From prestigious festivals like Glastonbury Pop and Chicago Jazz to tiny clubs, schools and churches in out of the way places, the group has been “dependably marvelous,” according to the Village Voice.
No obstacles deterred leader Russ Gershon and his intrepid musical explorers from visiting new musical worlds – until the Covid pandemic. The band’s most recent performance was in December of 2019 at Tufts U., with one of their distinguished Ethiopian collaborators, vocalist Teshome Mitiku. But now, they’re coming back!
To celebrate the exact 40th anniversary of their first show, the Either/Orchestra returns to the stage not a mile from where they started. The E/O began playing the Regattabar when the club was band new in the ’90’s. There is no better and more appropriate venue for them to inaugurate their fifth decade.
The E/O will be making selections from their vast catalog of originals and original arrangements of classic and obscure jazz, as well as dipping into their unparalleled repertoire of Ethiopian music in honor of their upcoming release, éthiopiques 32: Nalbandian the Ethiopian. Their second release on the legendary éthiopiques series features music by Nerses Nalbandian, a teenage refugee of the Armenian genocide who rose to become music director of Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie’s National Theater in Addis Ababa. Nalbandian’s interest in American music helped set the stage for the birth of the modern Ethiopian pop music which has bewitched music aficionados the world over the past couple of decades. His music has seldom been played since the totalitarian revolution which deposed Haile Selassie in 1974, and the E/O was asked by the Nalbandian family and éthiopiques producer Frances Falceto to reconstruct and play it at the National Theater of Ethiopia. The album is a record of that labor of love.
E/O personnel and the year they joined the band:
Tom Halter, trumpet (1985)
Dan Rosenthal, trumpet (2006)
Joel Yennior, trombone (1998)
Sam Spear, alto sax (2025)
Russ Gershon, tenor sax (1985)
Charlie Kohlhase, baritone sax (1987)
Alexei Tsiganov, piano (2025)
Rick McLaughlin, bass (1997)
Brooke Sofferman, drums (2019)
Vicente Lebron, congas (1998)
YouTube playlist of Either/Orchestra music: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGJjesMedISrU4IEePmNAUIZIJhoyL2DY&si=ZkzzZi26P0Cu06DP
"Boston's Either/Orchestra...consistently displays a hip, forward-thinking approach...the E/O salutes the past while embracing the future." — Philadelphia Weekly
"I have seen the future of big band music, and it is this 10-piece from Boston." — Chicago Tribune
"This amazing ensemble does just about everything right." — Village Voice
"Wildly entertaining." -- Lenny Mazel, KCME, Colorado
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All Ages
Seats are assigned by date of purchase. Tickets purchased the night of the show at the door will be seated first come, first served at remaining tables.
Groups larger than 8 must purchase a group package at regattabar@charleshotel.com or by calling 617-661-5099.
Groups larger than 8 must purchase a group package at regattabar@charleshotel.com or by calling 617-661-5099.
The Either/Orchestra
Jazz
In the decades since the Either/Orchestra debuted on December 17, 1985 at the Cambridge MA Public Library, the group has made over 1000 performances in 38 of the United States and 12 foreign countries, as well as releasing a dozen albums and being nominated for a Grammy, winning five Boston Music awards and numerous Downbeat Critics Poll placements, among many other honors. From prestigious festivals like Glastonbury Pop and Chicago Jazz to tiny clubs, schools and churches in out of the way places, the group has been “dependably marvelous,” according to the Village Voice.
No obstacles deterred leader Russ Gershon and his intrepid musical explorers from visiting new musical worlds – until the Covid pandemic. The band’s most recent performance was in December of 2019 at Tufts U., with one of their distinguished Ethiopian collaborators, vocalist Teshome Mitiku. But now, they’re coming back!
To celebrate the exact 40th anniversary of their first show, the Either/Orchestra returns to the stage not a mile from where they started. The E/O began playing the Regattabar when the club was band new in the ’90’s. There is no better and more appropriate venue for them to inaugurate their fifth decade.
The E/O will be making selections from their vast catalog of originals and original arrangements of classic and obscure jazz, as well as dipping into their unparalleled repertoire of Ethiopian music in honor of their upcoming release, éthiopiques 32: Nalbandian the Ethiopian. Their second release on the legendary éthiopiques series features music by Nerses Nalbandian, a teenage refugee of the Armenian genocide who rose to become music director of Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie’s National Theater in Addis Ababa. Nalbandian’s interest in American music helped set the stage for the birth of the modern Ethiopian pop music which has bewitched music aficionados the world over the past couple of decades. His music has seldom been played since the totalitarian revolution which deposed Haile Selassie in 1974, and the E/O was asked by the Nalbandian family and éthiopiques producer Frances Falceto to reconstruct and play it at the National Theater of Ethiopia. The album is a record of that labor of love.
E/O personnel and the year they joined the band:
Tom Halter, trumpet (1985)
Dan Rosenthal, trumpet (2006)
Joel Yennior, trombone (1998)
Sam Spear, alto sax (2025)
Russ Gershon, tenor sax (1985)
Charlie Kohlhase, baritone sax (1987)
Alexei Tsiganov, piano (2025)
Rick McLaughlin, bass (1997)
Brooke Sofferman, drums (2019)
Vicente Lebron, congas (1998)
YouTube playlist of Either/Orchestra music: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGJjesMedISrU4IEePmNAUIZIJhoyL2DY&si=ZkzzZi26P0Cu06DP
"Boston's Either/Orchestra...consistently displays a hip, forward-thinking approach...the E/O salutes the past while embracing the future." — Philadelphia Weekly
"I have seen the future of big band music, and it is this 10-piece from Boston." — Chicago Tribune
"This amazing ensemble does just about everything right." — Village Voice
"Wildly entertaining." -- Lenny Mazel, KCME, Colorado
No obstacles deterred leader Russ Gershon and his intrepid musical explorers from visiting new musical worlds – until the Covid pandemic. The band’s most recent performance was in December of 2019 at Tufts U., with one of their distinguished Ethiopian collaborators, vocalist Teshome Mitiku. But now, they’re coming back!
To celebrate the exact 40th anniversary of their first show, the Either/Orchestra returns to the stage not a mile from where they started. The E/O began playing the Regattabar when the club was band new in the ’90’s. There is no better and more appropriate venue for them to inaugurate their fifth decade.
The E/O will be making selections from their vast catalog of originals and original arrangements of classic and obscure jazz, as well as dipping into their unparalleled repertoire of Ethiopian music in honor of their upcoming release, éthiopiques 32: Nalbandian the Ethiopian. Their second release on the legendary éthiopiques series features music by Nerses Nalbandian, a teenage refugee of the Armenian genocide who rose to become music director of Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie’s National Theater in Addis Ababa. Nalbandian’s interest in American music helped set the stage for the birth of the modern Ethiopian pop music which has bewitched music aficionados the world over the past couple of decades. His music has seldom been played since the totalitarian revolution which deposed Haile Selassie in 1974, and the E/O was asked by the Nalbandian family and éthiopiques producer Frances Falceto to reconstruct and play it at the National Theater of Ethiopia. The album is a record of that labor of love.
E/O personnel and the year they joined the band:
Tom Halter, trumpet (1985)
Dan Rosenthal, trumpet (2006)
Joel Yennior, trombone (1998)
Sam Spear, alto sax (2025)
Russ Gershon, tenor sax (1985)
Charlie Kohlhase, baritone sax (1987)
Alexei Tsiganov, piano (2025)
Rick McLaughlin, bass (1997)
Brooke Sofferman, drums (2019)
Vicente Lebron, congas (1998)
YouTube playlist of Either/Orchestra music: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGJjesMedISrU4IEePmNAUIZIJhoyL2DY&si=ZkzzZi26P0Cu06DP
"Boston's Either/Orchestra...consistently displays a hip, forward-thinking approach...the E/O salutes the past while embracing the future." — Philadelphia Weekly
"I have seen the future of big band music, and it is this 10-piece from Boston." — Chicago Tribune
"This amazing ensemble does just about everything right." — Village Voice
"Wildly entertaining." -- Lenny Mazel, KCME, Colorado
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