This is the last song on Archie Shepp's 1972 soul jazz masterpiece 'Attica Blues'.It's difficult to think of another jazz album that ends on a stranger note,(Sorcerer by Miles Davis comes to mind).
Written by composer/trumpeter Cal Massey, it features Massey's nearly tone deaf seven year old daughter on vocals.
Whether her inclusion on the recording was an act of madness or genius is still up for debate but for me, it works.
If you don't have the whole record, Orgy In Rhythm posted it a few years ago and the link is still active.
Do you have the lyrics as well?
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Straining for notes, perhaps, but hardly tone deaf.
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