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Biography

As a teenager interested in learning to play the guitar, Ribot's parents sent him for lessons with Haitian guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus, a family friend. Ribot later recorded an album of Casseus's guitar music.

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 Peruvian singer Susana Baca, among dozens of others. He has also led his own groups such as Shrek, Los Cubanos Postizos, Spiritual Unity, and Ceramic Dog, and served as a composer and/or performer within various film productions. Ribot provided his unique guitar playing on several of Waits's seminal albums, including Rain Dogs, Franks Wild Years, Mule Variations and Real Gone. He also plays with the Italian folksinger Vinicio Capossela. Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ... John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in Queens, USA) is a Jewish American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. ... Brother Jack McDuff (September 17, 1926 - January 23, 2001) was a jazz organist and bandleader prominent during the soul jazz era of the 1960s. ... Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American R&B/Rock and Roll and soul singer. ... The Lounge Lizards are a jazz group formed in 1978 by saxophone player John Lurie. ... Arto Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist and singer. ... ... Cibo Matto was a New York City-based band formed by Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda in 1994. ... Leslie Phillips, aka Sam Phillips, (born January 28, 1962) is an American singer and a songwriter. ... Declan Patrick MacManus (born August 25, 1954, in London), better known by his stage name, Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer, and songwriter of Irish ancestry. ... David Poe, 2002. ... Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet. ... Foetus is the main entity of industrial music pioneer J.G. Thirlwell. ... Susana Baca de la Colina (b. ... Rain Dogs is an album by Tom Waits, released in August of 1985 (see 1985 in music). ... Frank`s [sic] Wild Years is an album by Tom Waits, released 1987 on Island Records. ... Mule Variations is an album by Tom Waits, released 1999 by the Anti sub-label of Epitaph Records. ... Real Gone is an album by Tom Waits, released October 3, 2004 in Europe, and October 5 in USA on Epitaph Records (under the Anti sub-label [1]). The album was supported by the Real Gone Tour, playing a few locations in North America and Europe in October and November... Vinicio Capossela Vinicio Capossela (born 14 December 1965) is an Italian singer-songwriter. ...

Ribot has appeared on numerous studio recordings by John Zorn such as the Filmworks series, The Gift, Bar Kokhba and The Circle Maker. He is also a member of John Zorn's Electric Masada. Ribot can also be found along with guitarists Bill Frisell and Tim Sparks on the Zorn release Masada Guitars, featuring solo guitar interpretations from Zorn's Masada songbook. John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in Queens, USA) is a Jewish American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. ... John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in Queens, USA) is a Jewish American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. ... William Richard Bill Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. ... Tim Sparks (born October 31, 1954) is an American acoustic guitar virtuoso. ... Combatants Jewish Zealots Roman Empire Commanders Elazar ben Yair Lucius Flavius Silva Strength 960 15,000 Casualties 953 Unknown, if any Masada (a romanization of the Hebrew מצדה, Metzada, from מצודה, metzuda, fortress) is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the South District of Israel on...

Ribot's playing and compositions draw on such diverse musical genres as soul, jazz, funk, traditional Cuban music, surf and no wave. His biting style is unique and easily recognizable, characterized by critic Nick Renshaw as "angular, discordant, (and) aggressive." Ribot is the first to admit his relatively limited technical facility, due in part to his learning to play right-handed though he is in fact 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) A genre is any of the traditional divisions of art forms from a single field of activity into various kinds according to criteria particular to that form. ... For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ... Funk is an African American musical style. ... The Caribbean island of Cuba has been influential in the development of multiple musical styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. ... Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture. ... No Wave was a short-lived but influential offshoot of punk rock centered in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... A person who is right-handed is more dextrous with their right hand than with their left hand: they will write with their right hand, and probably also use this hand for tasks such as personal care, cooking, and so on. ... People who are left-handed are more dextrous with their left hand than with their right hand: they will probably also use their left hand for tasks such as personal care, cooking, and so on. ... Brother Jack McDuff (September 17, 1926 - January 23, 2001) was a jazz organist and bandleader prominent during the soul jazz era of the 1960s. ... This is an article about George Benson, Jazz musician. ... Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ... A gun is a common name given to an object that fires high-velocity projectiles. ...

Despite these limitations, Ribot is often in demand; he's highly adaptable and generally well respected.

Equipment

Guitars:

• Gibson ES125TDC
• Harmony H-44 Stratotone
• (possibly faceless) Silvertone
• 1930s Gibson flattop acoustic
• early '70s electric Audition
• ESP Telecaster

Amplifiers:

• Fender (Twin Reverb, the Vibrolux Reverb, the Deluxe Reverb and the Princeton Reverb)

Mics:

• Sennheiser MKH 44

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)
• Scelsi Morning (2003)
• Soundtracks Vol 2 (2003)
• Spiritual Unity (2005)
• 17 Hippies play Guitar (2006)

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External links

• Official Site
• An Interview With Ribot
• An article by Ribot about his relationship with Frantz Casseus
• Marc Ribot bio from Pi Recordings
• Marc Ribot at the Internet Movie Database
• 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