Past Imperfect by John Allee

"Past Imperfect" showcases a lyrical menagerie of dreamers, schemers, and lovable rogues. My fourth studio album, it's a set of acoustic music anchored by a piano trio that fuses jazz, blues, and folk, that 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 sweet, quirky, romantic, and fantastically unreliable narrators.

"Allee presents a splendid, alternately heartfelt, charming, gently reflective and incisively pointed fictionalized chronicle of colorful characters he’s met (or will meet) and stories he’s heard (or imagined) throughout his 40-year career in showbiz…. A brilliantly poetic storyteller. The joy of the album is never knowing what tempo, vocal timbre, subject or style (jazz, blues, pop, folk, you name it) his powerhouse ensemble is going to treat us to next." - Jonathan Widran, JW Vibe

Tracklist

1.	Let's Hear It	3:09

2.	Like	3:42

3.	Until the Money's Gone	5:00

4.	Hard Sell	2:25

5.	Constant Storm of Jupiter	3:47

6.	Some Other Way	4:24

7.	A Typical Paris Affair	3:32

8.	Truth Be Told	3:29

9.	Get A Real Job	3:56

10.	The Outsider	3:53

11.	This Old Hat	5:40

12.	Let's All Up and Go There	4:49

13.	Past Imperfect	5:13

14.	Creatures of the Tried	3:17

15.	Feather in Your Panama	3:40

16.	Those Letters	3:45

17.	Where's the Door?	5:36

Credits

released May 5, 2023

John Allee, Piano and Vocals; Mike Schnoebelen, Bass; John Harvey, Drums; Adam Bravo, Piano (tracks 3,4,7,8,9,11,16); Javier Vergara, Tenor Saxophone; Jeff Kaye, Flugelhorn and Trumpet; Cortes Alexander, Harmony Vocals; Jane Lui, Harmony Vocals

Engineered by Paul Tavenner and Jeff Peters
Mixed by Jeff Peters
Recorded at Big City and Studio F - Los Angeles
Mastered by Nate Wood at Kerseboom Mastering

Cover images - excerpted from "Hanging Boy," David S. Allee (c) 2019, courtesy of the artist. Used with permission. All rights reserved.

Album design and inside cover photo - John Allee

Thank you to the musicians and engineers, to Susan Allee, Barbara Ross & Michael Bassett, to Pete & Patty Allee, Julie & Walt Hamann, Michael Lennox, Moira Walley-Beckett, to Chip Allee, Glenna Allee, Joshua Beckett, Eric Brown, Kevin Goldberg, Emily Goss, Gary Matanky, Nan McNamara, Jeremiah McNulty, Liza Seneca.

Special thanks to Kathleen Ross-Allee, who never leaves me hanging.

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