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Marc RibotSee Ribot for the famed race horse
Marc Ribot (born 1954) is an American guitarist, composer and occasional singer from Newark, New Jersey. As a teenager interested in learning to play the guitar, his parents sent him for lessons with Haitian guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus, a friend of the family. Ribot later recorded an album of Casseus's guitar music. Ribot has performed and recorded with The Lounge Lizards and Elvis Costello, among dozens of others. He is perhaps best known for his long association with Tom Waits, who has described Ribot's stage demeanor as a sometimes frightening "voodoo frenzy." http://www.keeslau.com/TomWaitsSupplement/Interviews/93-oct-straightnochaser.htm Ribot's playing and compositions draw on such diverse musical genres as soul, jazz, funk, traditional Cuban music 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) Despite these limitations, Ribot is often in demand: he's highly adaptable and generally well respected. Discography - 1990 Rootless Cosmopolitans
- 1992 Requiem for What's His Name
- 1993 Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus
- 1994 Shrek
- 1995 Don't Blame Me
- 1997 Shoe String Symphonettes
- 1998 The Prosthetic Cubans
- 1999 Yo! I Killed Your God
- 2000 Muy Divertido!
- 2001 Saints
- 2003 Scelsi Morning
- 2003 Soundtracks Vol 2
External links Ribot, Marc Ribot, Marc
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