The album has an instrumental coda, a suite based on a piano elegy by Sufjan Stephens that’s included on the album: “Redford (For Yia Yia & Pappou).” It goes through short variations, including a crashing free-jazz duet of Questlove’s drums and D. D. Jackson hurling two-fisted piano clusters, followed by an elegiac string quartet and a last dissonant piano chord, an unpeaceful final rest.

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