MARC RIBOT

'Marc Ribot' (born 21 May 1954 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American guitarist, composer and singer.
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, Sam Phillips, Elvis Costello, David Poe, Allen Ginsberg, Foetus, and Susana Baca. His work is featured on Waits' ''Rain Dogs'', ''Franks Wild Years'', ''Mule Variations'' and ''Real Gone''. He has also worked with Vinicio Capossela.
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)

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Discography

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Discography

★ ''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)

★ ''Pranzo Oltranzista'' by Mike Patton (Ribot is featured on guitars on this album) (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)

External links

★ Official Site

★ An Interview With Ribot

★ An article by Ribot about his relationship with Frantz Casseus

★ Marc Ribot bio from Pi Recordings

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★ The Complete Marc Ribot discography - includes all solo work as well as collaborations as a sideman in the projects of other musicians.

★ A great interview with Marc discussing Albert Ayler's influence on his playing

★ photographs: Live in performance - Bumbershoot 2002