Marc Ribot
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| Background information | |
| Born | May 21, 1954 |
| Origin | Newark, New Jersey, United States |
| Genre(s) | Experimental music, alternative rock, free jazz, electronic music, hardcore punk |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, vocals |
| Associated acts | Tom Waits Electric Masada Bar Kokhba Sextet The Prosthetic Cubans Spiritual Unity Ceramic Dog John Zorn Elvis Costello T-Bone Burnett |
| Website | www.marcribot.com |
Marc Ribot (born 21 May 1954 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American guitarist, composer and singer.
His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, notably singers Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.
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[edit] Biography
Ribot has performed and recorded with Tom Waits, John Zorn, David Sylvian,Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, The Lounge Lizards, Arto Lindsay, T-Bone Burnett, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Cibo Matto, Elysian Fields, Sam Phillips, Elvis Costello, David Poe, Allen Ginsberg, Foetus, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Susana Baca, The Black Keys, and the Lucien Dubuis Trio. He has also worked with Vinicio Capossela.
His work is featured on Waits' Rain Dogs, Franks Wild Years, Mule Variations and Real Gone. Ribot has appeared on numerous recordings by John Zorn. He played with Bill Frisell and Tim Sparks on Zorn's Masada Guitars.
Ribot has released two albums with his self-described "dance band," Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos[1] (The Prosthetic Cubans), which has covered Arsenio Rodriguez.
Ribot admitted to Guitar Player a relatively-limited technical facility due to learning to play right-handed: "That's a real limit, one that caused me a lot of grief when I was working with Jack McDuff and realizing I wasn't following in George Benson's footsteps. I couldn't be a straight-ahead jazz contender if you held a gun to my head, but that begs the question of whether I would want to be one." (Guitar Player, June 1997)
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Rootless Cosmopolitans (1990)
- Requiem for What's His Name (1992)
- Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus (1993)
- Shrek (1994)
- Subsonic 1: Sounds of a Distant Episode featuring music by Fred Frith and M. Ribot (1994)
- Don't Blame Me (1995)
- Shoe String Symphonettes (1997)
- The Prosthetic Cubans (1998)
- Yo! I Killed Your God (1999)
- Muy Divertido! (2000)
- Saints (2001)
- Masada Anniversary Edition Vol. 1: Masada Guitars (2003)
- Scelsi Morning (2003)
- Soundtracks Vol 2 (2003)
- Spiritual Unity (2005)
- 17 Hippies play Guitar (2006)
- Asmodeus: Book of Angels Volume 7 (2007)
- Exercises In Futility (2008)
[edit] Contributions
- Tom Waits – Rain Dogs (1985)
- Tom Waits – Franks Wild Years (1987)
- Elvis Costello – Spike (1989)
- Elvis Costello – Mighty Like a Rose (1991)
- Mike Patton – Pranzo Oltranzista (1997)
- Tom Waits – Mule Variations (1999)
- David Sylvian – Dead Bees on a Cake (1999)
- Medeski Martin & Wood – The Dropper (2000)
- Elvis Costello – When I Was Cruel (2002)
- Medeski Martin & Wood – End of the World Party (Just in Case) (2004)
- Tom Waits – Real Gone (2004)
- Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006)
- In the Country – Losing Stones, Collecting Bones (2006)
- Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand (2007)
- The Black Keys – Attack & Release (2008)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Marc Ribot official website
- Marc Ribot bio from Pi Recordings
- Marc Ribot at the Internet Movie Database
- Marc Ribot at Allmusic
- Marc Ribot at MySpace
- An interview with Ribot by Efren del Valle printed December 24, 2002 on Tomajazz.com
- The Complete Marc Ribot discography – includes all solo work as well as collaborations as a sideman in the projects of other musicians
- Interview with Marc Ribot discussing Albert Ayler's influence on his playing – "Marc Ribot: That's the Way I View It From New York" by Paul Olsen, published March 27, 2006 on Allaboutjazz.com
- Frantz Casseus Histoire de Frantz Casseus
