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JeSsE Allen

"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Funky Grooves."

About Me


Jesse Allen has had a life long affair with music. He pulls from his large record collection of contemporary and classic disco, house, and obscure dance music grooves to produce a sound that has been influenced by the likes of Ron Hardy, Larry Levan, and Dj Harvey providing the freshest music programming and mixing this side of the galaxy.His musical journey started with playing the saxophone at the tender age of seven, and by the age of ten he began studying jazz. In nineteen ninety-three Jesse had been introduced to the sounds of the ever-present house music underground in Boston and soon after started playing with his friends turntables, he had come to find a new musical passion.By the age of eighteen he started fusing his musical worlds together, mixing records and playing the sax at the same time. Which was then followed by teaching himself to play piano and schooling himself in the art of music production and engineering.Recent times have found Jesse Allen playing keys and sax on Bananza Music’s (BZA008) “Melodic Pleasure” by Ryan Tapia feat. Celeste and he’s currently mixing and mastering what will become his debut LP release. Get hip to this true dance musicologist’s feel good funky sound that brings people together, make them dance, and melts their troubles away in proper fashion on the dance floor.

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Member Since: 1/23/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/discjockjesseallen
Band Members: JeSsE Allen
Influences: Just to name a few in no particular order because there are so many genius' that play a part in influencing my sound: Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters, Thomas Dolby, Arthur Russell, Larry Levan, David Mancuso, Kenny Carpenter, Nicky Siano, Giorgio Moroder, Quincy Jones, Bird, Phil Woods, Grover Washington, Ronnie Laws, Roy Ayers, Harvey mason, Bohannan, Dennis Coffey, Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Bob Marley, Skatalites, James Brown, P-Funk, Cloud One, Patrick Adams, Lewis & Rinder, El Coco, Steve Arington, Bunny Siegler, D Train, Pleasure, T-Connection, Fat Back Band, Talking Heads, Prince, Blondie, Pink Floyd, Marshall Jefferson, Joy Division/New Order, Larry Heard, Ron Hardy, Frankie Knuckles, Adonis, Tony Humphries, MAW, Carl Craig, Francois K, Eric Kupper, Victor Simonelli, Pal Joey, Daniel Wang, Arthur Russell, Danny Krivit, Johnny Fiasco, Glenn Underground, Kerri Chandler, Greg Wilson, Alton Miller, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins, Eddie Fowlkes, K. Dixon AKA Moodyman, Purple Flash, Jon Rocca, Harry Thuman, Alexander Robotnic, Gino Soccio, Metro Area, Idjut Boys, Chicken Lips, Jazzanova, Bugz in the Attic, Atjazz, Recloose, Dimitri From Paris, Dj Harvey, Charles Webster, Jori Hulkkonen, Trentemoller, West End Records, Salsoul records, P & P Records, Prelude, All the Great Disco/Jazz Funk/Electro Funk/Boogie Bands, All the Great House Pioneers and my True School House/New Disco Contemporaries, All the Hip Hop Pioneers, All the Hip Jazz Cats. The list goes on....and....on.....ya know!
Sounds Like:Heavy JaZz/FuSioN/LaTin infuences, the H to the H*o*U*s*E, ObScUre DiSco, BoOgIe, DoWntEmPo, ClassiCs, ItaLiOdiSco, EleCtro, Funk&Punk, Reggae, If it grooves it's probably in my bag......................................................... .
Record Label: self produced
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

WMC 2007 Underground Event Info

Greetings, it's almost that time again for the Winter Music Conference 2007 in Miami (www.wintermusicconference.com) and YES we are having a party this year.Beat Connection, Art Mafia & DiskoCentric P...
Posted by JeSsE Allen on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:12:00 PST

quote of the day

So until we see you again, bright moments and keep searchin for your mystery note on the universal piano of life. -Roland Kirk ...
Posted by JeSsE Allen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST