Great Rob Ickes Dobro, as usual
Eklektikos | 08/13/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I have tons of steel and resonator music and I love all of it, even my own amateurish attempts.
I love all types of music, jazz being my least favorite.
Oh my! What have I done?
I've gotten an album, touted as a jazz album, just because it was a jazz excursion by Rob Ickes.
I got it as a pre-release a couple of months ago, and I can't stop playing it, it is so good, I am going to wear it out.
Rob, demonstrates his usual superb musicianship skills, with intricate melodic phrasing, major tonality, rhythmic syncopation and a little bluesy. Great music arranging, if this is jazz, I am sold.
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Really interesting CD
David G. King | Fairfield, CT USA | 12/22/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Off beat recording...Rob Ickes, well-known dobro virtuouso, takes on jazz standards accompanied on piano by Michael Alvey. I think the back story of the record is that Alvey is a music teacher in a Nashville school; they met when Ickes came to do a "show and tell" for one of his children.
While the instrumentation is novel, the playing is very fine and the duo have a great interplay. Ickes skill with the dobro is legendary and he is in good form here. The real surprise is Alvey's piano work, which holds everything together."