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07/15 Thursday

7:30 PM Peter Stoltzman

with Bob Moses and Cecil McBee

www.peterjohnstoltzman.com
www.myspace.com/peterjohnstoltzman

While quietly releasing 5 independent recordings over the past decade, Stoltzman has cut his teeth as a sideman with jazz luminaries and young lions – performing with Eddie Gomez and Steve Gadd, Ron Westray, Bob Moses, Julian Lage, Justin Vasquez and Yosvanny Terry, among others. Stoltzman has played in the Montreal Jazz Festival, the North Beach, San Jose, and Stanford Jazz Festivals, the Texas and Austin Jazz Festivals, and jazz venues from NYC to Bratislava to Tokyo. With his father, Grammy-winning clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, Peter John has recorded three CDs for BMG, played the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, and concert halls around the globe. A uniquely diverse performer, Stoltzman has recorded and toured with folk, rock, funk, drum-n-bass, fusion, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban groups, performed an avant-garde concerto with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and even made tracks for Warner Bros. hip-hop artists.
All along, Stoltzman has maintained a passion for the piano trio, inspired by the likes of Jarrett, Oscar Peterson, and Brad Meldhau. While honoring the history and the masters within the tradition, the Peter John Stoltzman Trio builds bridges to the past and the future with a contemporary jazz approach to classical and modern popular music – from Debussy to Dylan. Original compositions by the Trio, from epic long-form jazz to sweet ballads to funky New Orleans second-line, have audiences enthralled, teary-eyed, and tapping their feet.

10:20 PM Either/Orchestra

In 1969, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a young singer named Teshome Mitiku wrote a song called "Yezamed Yebada and recorded it under the aegis of the legendary Amha Records.  Three years later Teshome left Ethiopia for Sweden, where he developed a music career, fathered a little girl who became the Swedish pop star Emilia, and eventually moved to the US.  In the late 1990s, French producer Francis Falceto included "Yezamed Yebada" on the first of the Ethiopiques, a series of CDs which have introduced the wonderful Ethiopian popular music of the late Haile Selassie period to the world.  

One set of ears that picked up on this song belonged to Either/Orchestra leader Russ Gershon, who arranged it as an instrumental for the group, which has since recorded it twice: in the studio for Afro-Cubism (2002) and for their electrifying double CD Ethiopiques 20: Live in Addis (2005).  

Now for the first time Teshome Mitiku with perform "Yezamed" – and a number of other songs – with the Either/Orchestra in a "secret concert" at the Lily Pad.  The team is preparing to introduce Teshome to the jazz public at the prestigious Chicago Jazz Festival on September 4, and this show at the Pad is a test run of the material.

Please come on down for a little bit of history, as Teshome meets the Either/Orchestra for the first time.

http://www.teshomemitiku.com/