| 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 |
| Website | www.marcribot.com |
Marc Ribot (born 21 May 1954 in Newark, New Jersey) is a Jew American guitarist, composer and singer.
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Biography
Ribot has performed and recorded with Tom Waits, John Zorn, Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, The Lounge Lizards, Arto Lindsay, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Cibo Matto, Elysian Fields, Sam Phillips, Elvis Costello, David Poe, Allen Ginsberg, Foetus, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, and Susana Baca. 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, Bill Frisell and Tim Sparks played on Zorn's Masada Guitars. Ribot has released two albums with his self-described "dance band", Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos (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)
Discography
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)
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)
- Elvis Costello – When I Was Cruel (2002)
- Tom Waits – Real Gone (2004)
External links
- Marc Ribot official website
- Marc Ribot bio from Pi Recordings
- Marc Ribot at the Internet Movie Database
- Marc Ribot at All Music Guide
- 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
