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hey, mr shadow

about Greg Allen ..

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Greg Allen is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He has played in a wide variety of bands local and regional bands with styles ranging from bluegrass and country to swing, blues, and jazz. His influences necessarily run the gamut from Monroe and Berline to Coltrane and Metheny. Though most of his playing time has been in the central plains region of the US, he has been involved in the music scenes of Minneapolis and New York City as well. He currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas where he performs, composes, teaches and raises two great kids.

dance, dance, dance
high octane swing ..

i remember romance
a latin based tune, kind of a been there, done that sort of thing ..

kansas city lights
i wrote this imagining driving into downtown kansas city at sunset in an eighteen wheeler .. swing

a river sings the blues
if you were a river in the 21st century, you might sing something like this, too .. definitely blues

i'll forget you, little darlin'
i'll cry for a while, but someday i won't remember your name .. ballade ..

long as i got the blues
wrote this as a challenge.. to write something charles mingus might have written .. if he'd written a vocal tune

hey, mr shadow
title cut, probably a little more than autobiographical .. ballade

bluebird
this one was inspired from john coltrane's Naima .. after the umpteenth hearing, i finally caught my breath enough to write .. definitely a ballade

white tie and tails
jazz medium up ; sing it, frank ..