Plus: Reader music editor Philip Montoro on Witch Mountain and El-P, and Cheer-Accident keyboardist Dudley Bayne on the composer of Shredded Paranoid Cheese
Anthony Coleman reframes the post-ragtime proto-jazz of Jelly Roll Morton, one-of-a-kind mongrel folkie Michael Hurley cuts an album with Ida, and Tompkins Square collects three discs of off-the-grid black gospel.