Support the Hank Roberts Trio's Debut Album

Hi everyone. This October the Hank Roberts Trio featuring world-renowned improvisational cellist Hank Roberts, drummer Ashley Ickes, and pianist Chad Lieberman will be heading into the studio to record our debut album. We need your help to bring it to life!

Your donation will go towards tracking, producing, mixing and mastering the album, paying the artists and administrative fees.

Playing music with Ashley Ickes and Chad Lieberman has been wonderfully gratifying. We’re looking forward to sharing this music with the rest of the world.

Thank you for your consideration and for being a part of this journey with us.

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The Hank Roberts Trio features world-renowned improvisational cellist Hank Roberts, drummer Ashley Ickes, and pianist Chad Lieberman. Their performances encompass a wide range of styles, with each piece serving as a foundation for rhythmic, harmonic, and diverse improvisational explorations. At the core of their music is a commitment to communication, interplay, discovery, and collective creativity.

With a career spanning over 50 years, Hank Roberts has performed at prestigious venues worldwide alongside celebrated artists such as Bill Frisell, Petra Haden, Rudy Royston, Aurora Nealand, Tim Berne, Gordon Grdina, Mark Dresser, Mark Feldman, as well as with the Hank Roberts Sextet and the Italian-based group 'Pipe Dream.' His extensive discography includes more than a dozen albums as a leader, and his album Green (featuring Jim Black and Marc Ducret) won the 2008 German Recording Critics’ Award in the Jazz category. Roberts was also named 'Rising Star’ in the Miscellaneous Instrument (cello) category in Downbeat Magazine’s 2022 Critics Awards.

Drummer Ashley Ickes brings a highly developed sense of rhythmic complexity, stylistic diversity, and excitement to every group she performs with, including regional favorites like the funk band The Comb Down and the hip hop group Felix Free & the Rxcketeers. Since her arrival in 2016, she has been a vibrant central figure in the Ithaca music scene.

Pianist Chad Lieberman, influenced by traditional Cuban music and the University of Miami’s renowned Jazz program, studied music composition and electronic music at Ithaca College. He has performed both locally and internationally and is a founding member of the MAQ ensemble and the Strong Maybe experimental music trio.