Futon Pain Killer CD - Import

Simply put, Dave Milne is bringing the bounce back to jazz. Mixing Hip Hop heavy beats and production with exciting chord progressions, memorable melodies and brilliant, soulful saxophone playing, Milne has created a sound that truly separates itself from the crowd and yet remains accessible to jazz, R&B and Hip Hop lovers across the spectrum. His debut album, called 'Present Tense,' contains 13 fresh, funktified tracks. At home on traditional & contemporary jazz radio, the genre bending tunes are salient enough for film and TV scores as well as jawdropping live shows. All the songs, except the Mongo Santamaria classic 'Afro Blue' (which was newly arranged by Milne in 5/4 time), were written and arranged by the Seattle native. 'Present Tense' was recorded in Portland, OR at Kung Fu Bakery and engineered and co-produced by Bob Stark (Tom Grant, Dan Balmer, McKinley). For mastering, Dave decided to use one of the industry's most respected engineers: Brian 'Big Bass' Gardner (OutKast, Eminem, Gwen Stefani, Janet Jackson, Snoop Dog, 50 Cent) who works out of Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, CA. From the undeniable melodic intensity of 'Soul Bop' to the advanced harmonic sensibility of 'You Pea Ess' and the delicate ...

' Page 427, I Never Promised You A Rock Band by I.M. PeenedCopyright 1998 Detroit Free Press (Quoted by permission)'!..One gray and dreary December afternoon in 1964 Joe Triplet, Tom Guernsey, Mike Henley, Richard Solo, and Jim Daniels sat in a Maryland recording studio and listened with smug satisfaction to the playback of the surf instrumental Tom had just written. It was their first time in a recording studio, and their uncertainty had been transparently and awkwardly manifest at the beginning of the session. But now, five hours and one finished instrumental track later, ...