It’s well known that Chestnut is a gutsy, groovy, gospel-influenced virtuoso, expert at enlivening the existing traditional piano-trio approach. He’s very much on form here, with the added attraction that eight tracks (out of 13) are adaptations of some rather alternative repertoire. Composers include Mozart and Ravel (one each), Debussy (two) and Satie (four) but unlike, say, the dreamy Bill Evans/Herbie Mann approach to ‘Gymnopédie No.1’ (was that its first-ever jazz adaptation?) this develops a much more muscular Tyner-ish feel. Again, Ravel’s ‘Entre Cloches’ may be rather glitzy in its original two-piano setting, whereas here both its 5/4 opening and closing and its 3/4 middle section are more down-to-earth and bluesy. Similar praise attaches to the remaining programme, from two originals to a gospel hymn to a songbook standard to a Deep Purple hit. Despite the possible scepticism aroused by just reading about this, Chestnut easily wins us round and, while we’ve become used to the endless supply of new rhythm-section players based in New York, Wheeler and Beck are impressively on the case.