In his forty-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, 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?” The album features Adam Bravo (piano), Mike Schnoebelen (bass), John Harvey (drums), Javier Vergara (tenor saxophone) Jeff Kaye (trumpet/flugelhorn) with ocalsJane Lui, and Cortes Alexander on harmony vocals. The album was produced by John Allee and Jeff Peters.
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