It is a 14-minute acknowledgements track, a veritable rock mini-opera where the band sings one name after another as verse, chorus, verse, bridge, and then moving to another melody entirely.
Within minutes, email acknowledgements begin.
Two tracks feature the last two minutes of the first movement, "Acknowledgement," as released but with different overdubs of Coltrane's chanting of the phrase "A love supreme".
After a few minutes this stopped, as if in acknowledgement.
It was very much a friendly, though, with as little urgency on the pitch as you would expect in mid-July, and when the United fans took up the same chant again 25 uneventful minutes into the game the manager's acknowledgement was just a little more sheepish.
Only four tracks, running a total of twenty-three minutes, offer previously unheard performances — two complete takes of "Acknowledgement" as played by a sextet that also includes a second tenor saxophonist, Archie Shepp, and the bassist Art Davis, and two takes that break off quickly.
By the 98th minute, Istomin seemed out of ideas, bowing his head in weary acknowledgement of his impending defeat as he sat in his chair during the changeover.
"They are taught 'aviate, navigate, communicate,' but you might expect some acknowledgement that they were in difficulties during eight minutes," Alexander said.
It lasted five hours and twenty minutes, with just a single bathroom break, and while it began with Comey's acknowledgement that an investigation existed, much of the rest of it was taken up with his refusals to provide any more details about the probe, or to comment on individual Trump associates whom media reports have tied to it.
Within minutes of leaving the ferry dock, visiting cyclists will encounter the customary "Lopezian wave", a cordial acknowledgement offered by local motorists that involves lifting two fingers off the steering wheel in an energy-saving greeting.
