Nahum Thelonious Zdybel is a New Orleans-based guitarist, improviser, and composer restlessly shifting roles between innovative explorer of unstructured musics, creative sideman, and ardent revivalist of early jazz styles and repertoire. Attracted to musical settings that are intimate and sincere, Nahum deploys a playful, hyper-sensitive approach to re-imagine material from disparate musical traditions as baffling combustions of spontaneity and subtle cleverness. Correspondingly at home amongst jazz standards, free improvisations, original works, and early 20th-century american music, Nahum is an inventive artist who regards with equal fondness and irreverence his relationships with jazz, hardcore punk, and the avant- garde.