Trump is beyond satire and shame, making artistic opposition seem hopeless. Social media’s intimate propaganda walls up minds that might be changed, while music’s reduced social role makes albums such as this still more quixotic. Marshalling various Jazz Passengers and Ceramic Dog compadres, and all-star vocalists including Tom Waits, Marc Ribot realises that beauty beats abrasion when it comes to being heard. Opener ‘We Are Soldiers In the Army’ has the sax fire of 1960s civil rights suites, while ‘How To Walk In Freedom’ sees singers Fay Victor and Sam Amidon borne along by a rush of spiritual jazz flute and latin percussion. Among several Italian songs from a far worse anti-fascist fight, Waits’ gruff quaver imagines beauty once the war is over in ‘Bella Ciao’. ‘The Militant Ecologist’ then updates a partisan tale, Meshell Ndegeocello softly implacable over the cradling comfort of woodwind and strings, and a limpid, aching melody. The anti-slavery revolt of ‘John Brown’ inspires a spiritual soul-jazz epic, Victor carving out space for incantatory cries of “Freedom now”. Best is Ribot’s own ‘Knock That Statue Down’. Banjo, trombone and clarinet give Southern warmth to a downtown New Yorker’s dismay. His grandmother’s tears at their family’s Auschwitz fate and his own sardonic bite give bitter steel to this folk witnessing of Charlottesville: “I saw torch-lit Nazis marching on the heart of town, I saw/A sweet young woman lying dead on the ground.” Trans cabaret activist Justin Vivian Bond concludes that ‘We’ll Never Turn Back’. They have the brute ruthlessness. These musicians have the tunes, and the trust in a long road to love.