Struck by a boundless musical curiosity, influenced by the experimental minimal current, adept – very early – of the sample, this privileged accomplice of John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Roy Nathanson, that some qualify as a keyboard Dadaist, leader of the Selfhaters Orchestra then of Sephardic Tinge with their prismatic visions of some sides of little examined sides of music and Jewish culture, also count among his mentors Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and Jaki Byard. Therefore it is hardly surprising to find Anthony Coleman solo, both hands plunged in Ferdinand’s repertory “Jelly Roll” Morton, inventor of jazz history.