Bristle at a good tune, friend - perhaps better to look away now if so or stuff your ears with cotton wool for the duration. But if living dangerously - by your best exactingly atonal standards - away from the comfort blankets of your beloved serial interests you may surprise yourself how much on solid ground you land when saxist Chris Cheek tumbles chorus upon chorus after he states the theme to Leigh Harline Pinocchio classic 'When You Wish Upon a Star.'

Covered down the years in instrumental versions alone by Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis, Joe Locke, Tommy Smith and so many more - even Portuguese guitarist Ricardo Pineiro here - known for his work with Dave Liebman - has already had a jab at the tune in a more condensed treatment heard on 2018's Triplicity.

Tone Stories is certainly big on the familiar, major on the collegiality of a pooled collective memory for standards that jump on and off the beaten track and strong too when Pineiro and Cheek, joined by tonally blessed bassist Michael Formanek and by the Brad Mehldau & Enrico Pieranunzi drummer Jorge Rossy recording in a Lisbon studio in the Portuguese capital last year, click into a more zen like flow.

Full of comforting choices whether bebop warhorse Elmo Hope's 'De Dah' or the popular Mal Waldron classic 'Soul Eyes' - once (still?) synonymous with John Coltrane but in more recent years brought to a new Blue Note label jazz vocals buying audience by Kandace Springs - there's some exquisite soprano work by Cheek on this new version. You would have to be in the possession of a heart of stone not to get something out of this album. And as a window on to a range of standards glimpsed through a richly reverberant tonal lens - a view to a few (why not?) nostalgic thrills becomes the order of the day.