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| Sammy Cahn Award-Winning Songwriter/Vocalist John Allee's "PAST IMPERFECT" In his 40 plus years as an actor, singer, and songwriter, JOHN ALLEE has met no shortage of interesting characters with unlikely stories to tell. His fourth studio album, PAST IMPERFECT, offers us a wildly entertaining and heartfelt set of acoustic music anchored by a piano trio that fuses jazz, blues, and folk. It feels like an evening sitting at the rail in a dive bar or on a bench in a Greyhound bus waiting room surrounded by a gaggle of lovable, quirky, romantic, and fantastically unreliable narrators. "Did you ever meet somebody who was so interesting, or funny, or extravagant, or pained that you felt they needed their own movie or TV show?" asked Allee. "It's kind of like that for me with songwriting. I'm not a film producer, but what I can do is give them their own song." More than anything, the songs have a story to tell – about wild adventures and quiet observations, about relationships and love, and ultimately about how we come to care about each other. "PAST IMPERFECT is an album full of tall tales and small tales of the people you meet, the people you wish you'd met, the people you maybe wish you were, and a couple you're not so sure about, " says Allee. "And of course, there's a little bit of me in all of them. And at a time when we could all use a little human connection, these stories spoke to me – and I hope they'll connect with dreamers and schemers everywhere. Plus it swings. You dig?" Personnel JOHN ALLEE vocals, piano, harmony vocals ADAM BRAVO piano MIKE SCHNOEBELEN bass JOHN HARVEY drums JAVIER VERGARA tenor saxophone JEFF KAYE trumpet & flugelhorn JANE LUI harmony vocals CORTES ALEXANDER harmony vocals produced by JOHN ALLEE & JEFF PETERS all songs by JOHN ALLEE Tracks 1. Let's Hear It 3:07 2. Like 3:42 3. Until the Money's Gone 5:11 4. Hard Sell 2:23 5. Constant Storm of Jupiter 3:45 6. Some Other Way 4:21 7. A Typical Paris Affair 3:29 8. Truth Be Told 3:28 9. Get a Real Job 3:54 10. The Outsider 3:51 11. This Old Hat 5:39 12. Let's All Up and Go There 4:47 13. Past Imperfect 5:13 14. Creatures of the Tried 3:15 15. Feather in Your Panama 3:40 16. Those Letters 3:44 17. Where's the Door? 5:33 write your comments about the article :: © 2023 Jazz News :: home page |