JEFREY LEIGHTON BROWN Jefrey Leighton Brown, though totally modest about his vision, history, and role as community facilitator, is nothing less than a pillar of the Portland music-community. Originally from Baltimore, Brown has been participating in Portland's experimental rock, jazz, free-improvisation, and soul music contexts for over twelve years. As a founding member of international agitators Jackie-O-Motherfucker, Brown branched out from his first instrument, the electric guitar, to become an accomplished saxophonist. Its in this role that he leads the Evolutionary Jass Band, eschewing all-out-abstract-improv in favor of a cultivated jazz language that touches on Ethiopian soul-jazz, New Orleans Music, Klezmer, Kurt Weill, and the afro-centric free jazz of the 1970s. Brown has also been a member of rock quartet the Davis-Redford Triad, among other ensembles. Change Has Got To Come! is his first published solo work, giving some focus to where his jazz interests collide with a modernized, stripped back Rn'B aesthetic, as well as experimental rock and drone music. In addition to all this, he serves Portland's music community as one of the city's leading expert repairmen of vintage tube amplifier equipment, doing swift business at his Leighton Audio shop in North Portland. Discography Change Has Got to Come! CD (Community Library, 2006