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Ergo: Multitude, Solitude
by Glenn Astarita
Keyboardist Carl Maguire is a multifaceted artiste, often-heralded for his work in various jazz-related formats for Between The Lines, MoonJune Records and other progressive record labels. On this trio's second CD, Maguire, trombonist/computer operator Brett Sroka and drummer Shawn Baltazor spawn an experimental muse, where rigid definitions or categorizations, justifiably fall flat. Essentially, the respective artists ...
Ergo: Multitude, Solitude
by John Kelman
As jazz leans away from characteristics that so defined its earliest days, groups are emerging with unorthodox instrumental combinations, fleshed out by the vast potential of technological soundscaping. Ergo, at its core, seems as unconventional as they get--trombone, keyboards, drums--creating music that wouldn't have been possible before relatively recent innovations in sound processing and sampling/looping. Its ...
She Haunts Me
Album: Multitude, Solitude
By Brett Sroka
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2010
Duration: 3:41
Hearsay
By Brett Sroka
Label: Blue Moon
Released: 2003
Track listing: Hearsay, Happy-Go-Lucky-Ism, Tabula Rasa, A Sound Caresses the
Breast of a Negress, Undecided, Beloved
Brett Sroka: Hearsay
by Dan McClenaghan
Brett Sroka's trombone moans in alone; the trumpet follows, then the tenor sax. The rhythm section sneaks in there on the sly, and the opener, Duke Ellington's “Hearsay" (from The Deep South Suite), churns into a rumbling, channeled cacophony of Jazz--capitol 'J'.This is trombonist Brett Sroka's debut, and it bears out liner notes author ...
