You'd travel a long way to encounter as tuneful and accessible a jazz-rock verging on the smooth album as Parabbean Tales from trumpeter Iwan VanHetten. He keeps fast company with the likes of Russell Ferrante, Will Kennedy and Jimmy Haslip and the tunes have a very polished highly cultivated crafted feel to them, the album sounding sophisticated and in a way a throwback to the 1980s when jazz-rock fusion was more a feature on the jazz landscape. If Parabbean Tales has a fault it's too neat and overly manicured, the tunes carefully fit a melodic landscape but there's fine arranging and band cohesion that keeps you listening that bit longer than you thought you would.