Stryker returns with a nostalgic meander through some of cinema’s best loved themes. Moreover, he’s employed strings to beef up that matinee feel. Sara Caswell’s presence as concert leader and all too briefly soloist, notably to Peter Gabriel’s ‘In Your Eyes’, is a coup.

The retro romantic vibe echoes Quartet West, but we’re a long way from those sumptuous delights. And of course there’s no Charlie Haden. But the concept works well enough, notably on the theme to Taxi Driver. The sleaze is cleaned up, but Ward’s alto still hits a bitter-sweet nerve.

Stryker knows his limits and presents us with reasonably straight-ahead accounts of predictable classic themes. Your toes curl at the prospect of another ‘Cavatina’, but once he’s parked the busker’s acoustic intro, he picks up the electric and goes into a propulsive solo.

Stryker’s most at home in swing mode, and he features two Ellington/Strayhorn cuts from Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder, ‘Low Key Lightly’ and ‘Flirtibird’. Sometimes the nostalgia kicks to the heart: ‘Moonglow’ evokes that most wondrous of dance scenes in Picnic (Novak and Holden all moon-eyed until Rosalind Russell wisecracks us back to earth); but even Stryker can’t rescue ‘Edelweiss’. Oh, Vince Hill where art thou?