Change Has Got To Come!, by Jefrey Leighton Brown

Change Has Got To Come!

by Jefrey Leighton Brown

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1.	Devotion 06:51	buy track
2.	Ain't No Such Thing as What If.... 07:13	buy track
3.	October 06:30	buy track
4.	1968 07:39	buy track
5.	Floatin' on a Cloud of WHAT? 10:20	buy track
6.	Change Has Got To Come! 07:21	buy track

about

All the way down to its revolutionary, hopeful title and austere, homespun presentation, Change is a purposeful, careful reinterpretation of 70s-era, introspective avant-jazz and obtuse, small-town R&B (as Brown once described to me himself, “the sort of soul jazz recorded in jingle studios after hours...”). But in inimitable Community Library style (where the old and new joyfully clash and swap identities), this album is far from being a simple exploration of retro-fantasy. Brown brings his signature swinging-but-casual sensibility to classic composition, as well as unusual, sparkling instrumentation (including vibraphones, sitar, electric bass, deeply layered, multi-tracked saxophones, and vocals). Most importantly, Brown wields a sense of angular deconstruction (both intervallic and rhythmic) that brings his songs into high-contrast, modern expressions of tension, calm, and urgency. Free of self-consciousness, Brown brings his unpretentious, careful, abstract songwriting style to an updated soul-jazz idiom and all its moods and phases. And all this is recorded in the privacy of his own basement, with his brother and closest companions in tow, over the course of several years. Change Has Got To Come! is a perfect counterpoint to the Evolutionary Jass Band Change of Scene CD (Community Library CL7 CD) and gives some glimpse into the wealth of music yet to spring from this group and their community.

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released March 16, 2007

Jefrey Leighton Brown: saxophones, guitar, vibraphone, and more
Barry Leroy Hampton: drums and vocals
Mitch Patrick Brown: bass guitar
Daphna Rivah Kohn: vocals
John VanDyke Vassalo: Sitar
Recorded and mixed by Jef Brown
Mastered by Barry Leroy Hampton
Design by John Phemister

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Community Library Portland, Oregon

Uncompromisingly eclectic since 2005. Operated in Portland, Oregon, Cascadia by founders Paul Dickow and David Chandler. Check out our sister label Common Language as well: commonlanguage.bandcamp.com