Rob Ickes w/Jim Hurst

Bluegrass

The Station Inn

Tue. 3/12/13
Show: 9:00 PM
$12
21 and over
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Rob Ickes

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  • Jazz Times
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Rob Ickes - What It Is (from Jazz Times)

A respected dobro player and a member of the bluegrass group Blue Highway, Ickes is closely associated with that genre, but on What It Is he places the dobro in some very unbluegrasslike settings. Sure, the rollicking opening tune, "Mr. Goodbar," possesses a bluegrass feel, but there's a great deal of stylistic variety on this album. A highly accomplished ensemble joins Ickes: keyboardist John R. Burr, bassist Derek Jones, drummer Kendrick Freeman and saxophonist-bassoonist Paul Hanson. The......

Rob Ickes - What It Is (from Rolling Stone)

That Rob Ickes' third album is a pure jazz effort should come as no great surprise. The Blue Highway dobro wizard kept it trad on 1997's Hard Times, but two years later offered up a randy mix with Slide City, which found a common language between the likes of Jimmie Rodgers, Steve Winwood and Herbie Hancock. After 2001, in which he kept it bluegrass with a Blue Highway record and sporadic backing stints for Dolly Parton, Ickes and his instrument have committed to swinging and shuffling through e......

Rob Ickes - Slide City (from Jazz Times)

No one can accuse Ickes, the multi-award-winning dobro player, of being creatively moribund. His dobro swings with fire and desire here, and on Larry Coryell's "Don't Give It Up" he stirs up enough dust to shake a house. But "California Blues" is a parody of the worst of the Beach Boys and appears inspired by radio. Ickes, who jump-started his bluegrass career in northern California more than a decade ago and subsequently moved to Nashville, takes several detours on the ablum, stopping to pay t......

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