John Allee - Past Imperfect (2023)

"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