This song probably best expresses our reaction to the news of this week, from white, male Republican lawmakers turning the clock on women's rights back to 1964; to the discovery that half of the species extant when we was born are now extinct; to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaching 415 ppm; to provocations and rumblings of a new mid-east war, this time against Iran; to North Korea once again testing new missiles; to more lies, insults and filth spewing forth from the White House; to continued police brutality, economic inequality, voter suppression, and racial injustice across the land; and finally to the deaths this past week of Doris Day, Peggy Lipton, and Tim Conway.
Preview, from 1968, by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra featuring a very animated Pharoah Sanders and, although she's not credited in the lineup above, Carla Bley.
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