ANDREW CHESHIRE: Pavane Pour Une Infante Difunte

Andrew Cheshire

Pavane Pour Une Infante Difunte

© 2003 Andrew Cheshire (format: CD-R)

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Fans of jazz guitar, particularly guitar trios, should pounce on this one

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Personnel:
Andrew Cheshire - guitar
Joe Michaels - bass
Adam Stranburg - drums

Recorded 10/24/03
Cover Art: Andrew Cheshire

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Guitarist Andrew Cheshire is one of those jazz musicians who isn't well-known, even within the jazz community, but he ought to be. On Pavane Pour Une Infante Difunte, his eighth CD for the Joule label, he reveals himself to be a thoughtful, always interesting, and at times inspired improviser.

This CD is the product of Cheshire's working trio, a tight, fluid group that can swing hard or rock out as the music requires. Cheshire likes to segue from rock or funk beats to swing tempos. He also likes to go from waltzing to 4/4 swing, as he does on "Footprints", and he likes to turn the beat around in a manner that suggests he may have listened extensively to Ornette Coleman. His sidemen are with him every step of the way.

Cheshire plays with a clean, slightly trebly tone with very little use of distortion, although he does some bending in his coda to "Ju Ju", and some of his "Paraphenalia" solo also uses rockish elements. Generally, although Cheshire's sound is classic jazz guitar, his improvising is full of surprises. He's never content to just run changes, and he often plays triplet figures over a 4/4 swing to create rhythmic tension variety. His song selection is also noteworthy. The title composition is by Ravel, and it makes a sturdy vehicle for jazz as the trio treats the theme with highly imaginative improvisations in both rock and swing rhythms. Every other tune is associated with Miles Davis (four by Wayne Shorter) but Cheshire makes them his own.

I don't want to neglect the sidemen here. According to the liner notes, they're both young, and this is their first record date. But they are fully effective cogs in a fine working band, and they solo intelligently, to boot. Fans of jazz guitar, particularly guitar trios, should pounce on this one.

~ Marc Meyers, All About Jazz
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• Good music. Guitar, bass and drums versions of classics.
author: Eric Morton
I had not heard of Andrew Cheshire before I bought this CD. I am very impressed. I am familiar with the tunes on this CD (except the title track) since I am a Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter fan. Other than the title track and Ju Ju, all of the tunes were recorded by Miles Davis' great bands in the 50s and 60s. Ju Ju which was recorded by Wayne Shorter for an album of the same name. What I liked particularly about the Cheshire's versions is that he puts his own original sound to them. Very finely played music. He clearly had a concept of what he wanted to record and he executed it well. Great to see an artist with this kind of creative integrity. Highly recommend it to any jazz fan.

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  • Good music. Guitar, bass and drums versions of classics.
    author: Eric Morton

    I had not heard of Andrew Cheshire before I bought this CD. I am very impressed. I am familiar with the tunes on this CD (except the title track) since I am a Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter fan. Other than the title track and Ju Ju, all of the tunes were recorded by Miles Davis' great bands in the 50s and 60s. Ju Ju which was recorded by Wayne Shorter for an album of the same name. What I liked particularly about the Cheshire's versions is that he puts his own original sound to them. Very finely played music. He clearly had a concept of what he wanted to record and he executed it well. Great to see an artist with this kind of creative integrity. Highly recommend it to any jazz fan.

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