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Marc Ribot Pron. /ˈriːboʊ/ Newark NJ May 21 1954 Is An American Guitarist And Composer.
His Work Has Touched On Many Styles Including No Wave Free Jazz Rock And Cuban Music. Ribot Is Also Known For Collaborating With Other Musicians Most Notably Tom Waits Keith Richards Lou Reed Elvis Costello John Zorn Electric Masada The Lounge Lizards Arto Lindsay And Medeski Martin And Wood As Well As Leading A Number Of His Own Bands Such As Shrek Los Cubanos Postizos And Currently Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog And The Marc Ribot Trio Featuring Henry Grimes And Chad Taylor. Ribot's Earliest Session Work Was Featured On Tom Waits' Rain Dogs 1985 And Helped Define Waits' New Musical Direction. Ribot Worked With Waits On Many Of His Following Albums Including Franks Wild Years 1987 Big Time 1988 Mule Variations 1999 Real Gone 2004 Orphans 2006 And Bad As Me 2011 . He Has Appeared On Elvis Costello's 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 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."
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. 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 .
A Biographical Documentary Film About Marc Ribot Was Made Called The Lost String.
Ribot Was Also A Judge For The 6th Annual Independent Music Awards To Support Independent Artists' Careers.

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