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Infobox musical artist| name = Marc Ribot| image = muy_divertido.jpg| caption =| image_size =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1954|5|21| death_date =| origin = Newark, New Jersey , United States| instrument = Guitar , vocals , trumpet | genre = Experimental music , alternative rock , free jazz , electronic music , hardcore punk | occupation = Musician , composer | years_active =| label =| associated_acts = Tom Waits , Electric Masada , Bar Kokhba Sextet , The Prosthetic Cubans , Spiritual Unity (Marc Ribot album)|Spiritual Unity , Ceramic Dog, John Zorn , Elvis Costello , T-Bone Burnett | website = http://www.marcribot.com/ www.marcribot.com| notable_instruments = Marc Ribot (IPAc-en|icon|'|r|i?|b|o?;cite web |url= http://www.marcribot.com/bio.html |title=Marc Ribot biography |publisher=Marc Ribot Homepage |accessdate=2008-09-22
born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer .
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, most notably Tom Waits , Elvis Costello , and composer John Zorn .
Biography
Ribot was born in Newark, New Jersey . He has worked extensively as a session guitarist. He 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 (singer)|Sam Phillips , Elvis Costello , David Poe , Allen Ginsberg , Foetus (band)|Foetus , Robert Plant & Alison Krauss , Susana Baca , The Black Keys , Stan Ridgway , Vinicio Capossela , Alain Bashung , Lyenn , Hector Zazou , McCoy Tyner , Elton John , Madeline Peyroux , Marianne Faithfull , Leonid Fedorov , Tonio K , Andres Calamaro , Anarchist Republic of Bzzz and others.
Ribot's earliest session work was featured on Tom Waits' Rain Dogs (1985) and helped define Waits' new musical direction.Ruhlman, W. Allmusic|class=album|id=r21380|pure_url=yes All Music Review of Raindogs accessed 3 September 2008. Ribot worked with Waits on many of his following albums including Franks Wild Years (1987), Mule Variations (1999), Real Gone (2004) and Bad as Me (2011). He has appeared on Elvis Costello's Spike (Elvis Costello album)|Spike , Mighty Like a Rose (1991), and Kojak Variety (1995). Ribot has appeared on numerous recordings by John Zorn , including many of Zorn's Filmworks recordings, solo performances on Zorn's Masada Guitars (also featuring Bill Frisell and Tim Sparks ), and is a member of Zorn's Bar Kokhba Sextet and Electric Masada . Ribot's first two albums featured The Rootless Cosmopolitans, followed by an album of works by Frantz Casseus for solo guitar. Further releases found him working in a variety of band and solo contexts including two albums with his self-described "dance band", Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php? id=1165 A Fireside Chat with Marc Ribot (The Prosthetic Cubans), featuring compositions by Arsenio Rodríguez .
Ribot admitted to Guitar Player a relatively limited technical facility due to learning to play right-handed despite being left-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
He currently performs and records with his group Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog with bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Ches Smith of the avant-garde band Secret Chiefs 3 .cite web | title = Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog Party Intellectuals | author = Ted Drozdowski | url = http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/63648-MARK-RIBOTS-CERAMIC-DOG-PARTY-INTELLECTUALS/ | publisher = The Boston Phoenix | date = 2008-06-25 | accessdate = 2008-07-15 Ribot's most current studio work involves several tracks accompanying the legendary pianist from John Coltrane 's group, McCoy Tyner on his late 2008 album and DVD Guitars ; which also features work with John Scofield , Bill Frisell , Béla Fleck , and Derek Trucks .
In late 2010, he toured Europe with his band SunShip ( Mary Halvorson , Chad Taylor, Jason Ajemian ).cite web | title = marcribot.com tours & events | url = http://www.marcribot.com/tour.jsp | archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/5uF2XIU2J | archivedate = 2010-11-14 | accessdate = 2010-11-14
A biographical documentary film about Marc Ribot was made, called http://lahuit.lexio.fr/article/uk/marc-ribot-la-corde-perdue The Lost String .
Ribot was also a judge for the 6th annual The Independent Music Awards|Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers. http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima_new/imajudges2007.asp Independent Music Awards - 6th Annual Judges image:Ribot-Schindelbeck-Wiki.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Marc Ribot in Saalfelden, Austria 2010
Discography
main|Marc Ribot discography
Rootless Cosmopolitans (1990)
'' Requiem for What's His Name (1992)
Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus (1993)
The Soul of a Man (directed by Wim Wenders ) (2003)
A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn (2004)
Tom Waits Real Gone Tour DVD bootleg recording (2005)
The Lost String (directed by Anais Prosaic) (2007)
References
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External links
http://www.marcribot.com/ Marc Ribot official website
http://pirecordings.com/artist/Marc_Ribot Marc Ribot bio from Pi Recordings
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http://www.jambase.com/Articles/4593/MARC-RIBOT-USING-HIS-VOICE Marc Ribot: Using his Voice Interview by Arron Kayce published on February 9, 2004.
http://www.tomajazz.com/perfiles/ribot_marc_eng.htm An interview with Ribot by Efren del Valle printed December 24, 2002 on Tomajazz.com
http://home.arcor.de/nyds-exp-discogs/ribot.htm The Complete Marc Ribot discography – includes all solo work as well as collaborations as a sideman in the projects of other musicians
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php? id=21084 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
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php? id=44810 Marc Ribot video interview at allaboutjazz.com
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