Marc Ribot (; born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer. His work has touched on many styles, including

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, and

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. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably

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and

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Biography

Marc Ribot, who is of

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heritage, was born in

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. He grew up in the Montrose section of

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. He has worked extensively as a session guitarist. He has performed and recorded with

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, T Bone Burnett, Medeski, Martin and Wood,

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and

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, Stormin’ Norman and Suzy Williams,

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, and others. Ribot was a member of

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for several years in the late 1980s. Band leader

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later wrote: "Marc is a musical genius. So many ideas are coming out of that guy that it is actually often a problem." Ribot's earliest work as a

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was featured on Tom Waits's ''

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'' (1985) and helped define Waits's new musical direction. Ribot worked with Waits on many of his following albums including ''

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'' (1987), '' Big Time'' (1988), ''

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'' (1999), '' Real Gone'' (2004), '' Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards'' (2006) and '' Bad as Me'' (2011). He has appeared on Elvis Costello's '' Spike'' (1989), '' Mighty Like a Rose'' (1991), and ''

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'' (1995). Ribot has appeared on numerous recordings by

, including many of Zorn's ''Filmworks'' recordings, solo performances on Zorn's '' Masada Guitars'' (also featuring

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and

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), and is a member of Zorn's

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and Electric Masada. Ribot's first two albums featured the Rootless Cosmopolitans, followed by an album of works by

Frantz Casseus Frantz Casseus (14 December 1915 – 3 June 1993) was a Haitian-American guitarist and composer. Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he spent most of his adult life in the United States where he immigrated in 1946 hoping to meet pianist ...

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 (Prosthetic Cubans), featuring compositions by

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. Ribot admitted to ''

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'' 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 realising I wasn't following in

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's footsteps. I couldn't be a straight-ahead jazz contender if you held a gun to my head." He currently performs and records with his groups Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog with bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer

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of the

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band

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, Marc Ribot Trio with bassist

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and drummer Chad Taylor of Chicago Underground, Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos with Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez on drums and original members pianist

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, bassist Brad Jones and percussionist EJ Rodriquez, and The Young Philadelphians, covering 1970s Philadelphia soul music with Philadelphia-based musicians bassist

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and drummer G. Calvin Weston with guitarist

Mary Halvorson Mary Halvorson (born October 16, 1980) is an American avant-garde jazz composer and guitarist from Brookline, Massachusetts. Among her many collaborations, she has: led a trio with and Ches Smith, and a quintet with the addition of Jon Iraba ...

plus a three-piece string section. A biographical documentary film about Ribot was made, called ''

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''. Ribot was also a judge for the sixth annual Independent Music Awards.

Discography

* '' Rootless Cosmopolitans'' (

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, 1990) * '' Requiem for What's His Name'' (

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, 1992) * '' Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus'' (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 1993) * ''

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'' (

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, 1994) * ''Subsonic 1: Sounds of a Distant Episode'' with Shrek (

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/Subsonic 1994, split album with

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) * ''

The Book of Heads The Book of Heads (1978), composed by John Zorn, is a set of 35 etudes for solo guitar. It was recorded and released in 1995, and featured Marc Ribot. The pieces use multiple extended techniques. Condensed from roughly 80 other compositions, the ...

'' (

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, 1995) composed by

* '' Don't Blame Me'' ( DIW, 1995) * ''

Surrender to the Air Surrender to the Air was a free jazz ensemble led by Trey Anastasio of Phish that included Marshall Allen, Damon Choice, and Michael Ray of the Sun Ra Orchestra, John Medeski, Marc Ribot, Oteil Burbridge, Jon Fishman, and several other mus ...

(1996)'' * '' Shoe String Symphonettes'' (Tzadik, 1997) * ''

The Prosthetic Cubans ''The Prosthetic Cubans'' is a studio album recorded in New York City by Marc Ribot with Los Cubanos Postizos and features compositions by Arsenio Rodríguez. It was the first album by The Prosthetic Cubans and was followed by '' ¡Muy Divertido! ...

'' (

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, 1998) with Los Cubanos Postizos * '' Yo! I Killed Your God'' (Tzadik, 1999) * '' ¡Muy Divertido!'' (Atlantic, 2000) with Los Cubanos Postizos * ''

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'' (Atlantic, 2001) * ''Inasmuch as Life is Borrowed'' (Ultima Vez, 2001) limited edition * ''

Scelsi Morning ''Scelsi Morning'' is a 2003 album by Marc Ribot released on Tzadik Records. Reception The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard states, "Taken as a whole, ''Scelsi Morning'' is not really an easy listen (although a couple of the tracks are wonderf ...

'' (Tzadik, 2003) * '' Soundtracks Volume 2'' (Tzadik, 2003) * ''

Spiritual Unity ''Spiritual Unity'' is a studio album by American free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler. It was recorded on July 10, 1964 in New York City, and features bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray. It was the first album recorded for Bernard Sto ...

'' ( Pi, 2005) * '' Exercises in Futility'' (Tzadik, 2008) * '' Party Intellectuals'' (Pi, 2008) with Ceramic Dog * ''

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'' (Pi, 2010) * '' Your Turn'' ( Northern Spy, 2013) with Ceramic Dog * '' Live at the Village Vanguard'' (Pi, 2014) with Henry Grimes and Chad Taylor * '' The Young Philadelphians: Live in Tokyo'' (Yellowbird, 2016) with the Young Philadelphians * '' YRU Still Here?'' (Northern Spy, 2018) with Ceramic Dog * '' Songs of Resistance: 1942–2018'' (Anti-, 2018) * '' What I Did On My Long Vacation'' (Northern Spy (exclusively on Bandcamp), 2020) with Ceramic Dog * ''Hope'' (Northern Spy / Yellowbird / P-Vine, 2021) with Ceramic Dog * ''Connection'' (Knockwurst, 2023) with Ceramic Dog * ''Map Of A Blue City'' (

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2025)

Filmography

* ''

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'' (1992) * '' Sabbath in Paradise'' (1998) * '' The Soul of a Man'' (directed by

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) (2003) * '' A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn'' (2004) * ''

'' (directed by Anais Prosaic)'' (2007) * ''

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'' (2013)

References

External links

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