Marc Ribot

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Marc Ribot (* 21st May 1954 in Newark , New Jersey ) is an American avant-garde - guitarist and composer . Since the 1990s he has been one of the most versatile guitar virtuosos in jazz.

biography

Marc Ribot took classical guitar lessons as a teenager from Frantz Casseus , who was a family friend. In 1978 he moved to New York and played with jazz organist Jack McDuff and soul singer Wilson Pickett , among others . Between 1979 and 1983 he was a member of the band Realtones / Uptown Horns Band and from 1984 to 1989 the Lounge Lizards . During this time he also played in the bands of Tom Waits and Elvis Costello . His guitar playing is considered to be one of the crucial elements of the style change that Waits made on Rain Dogs . In 1990 he presented his own group Rootless Cosmopolitans with Don Byron and Anthony Coleman , which released two albums; Since 1994 Ribot has worked with the windless formation Shrek (album of the same name and live album). Although Ribot is generally assigned to the avant-garde, he also has his popular sides: For example, he and his band Los Cubanos Postizos have recorded two albums with Cuban- inspired music as a homage to Arsenio Rodríguez . In addition to his band and sideman activities, another focus is on various solo concerts and recordings, including for setting silent films to music .

In many of his recordings, Ribot reinterprets well-known compositions by other artists, including several by Albert Ayler (on the album Spiritual Unity and Live at the Village Vanguard by the Marc Ribot Trio with Chad Taylor and Henry Grimes ), John Coltrane (on Live at the Village Vanguard) , Jimi Hendrix (The Wind Cries Mary on Rootless Cosmopolitans and Yo! I Killed Your God), The Doors ( Break on Through on Party Intellectuals), as well as jazz standards like Take Five ( Your Turn ), I'm Confessin '(Live at the Village Vanguard).

Although he is left-handed , he plays a right-handed guitar. He compensates for the technical handicap with an individual and imaginative style of play. Author and music critic Robert Fischer quotes him as saying that "it takes a great deal of control to create music that sounds like it is uncontrolled". According to the authors of the jazz book, "it has all the sounds and techniques that have ever been played on the electric guitar."

Ribot worked a. a. with Peter Zummo , Petr Kotík , Elliott Sharp , the Jazz Passengers , Medeski, Martin & Wood , Bill Frisell , John Zorn , Dave Douglas , Arto Lindsay , Gina Leishman , Vinicius Cantuária, Evan Lurie , Marianne Faithfull , McCoy Tyner , Allen Ginsberg , Madeleine Peyroux , Elton John , Norah Jones , Diana Krall , The Black Keys , Jamaaladeen Tacuma , Laurie Anderson , Bill Ware , Allen Lowe , Henry Grimes , Noël Akchoté , Maria Răducanu and Mariola Membrives . In Germany he played together with Jakob Ilja ( Element of Crime ) in a concert project of the 17 Hippies in Cologne in 2004.

In 2008 he founded the Ceramic Dog trio with drummer Ches Smith and bassist Shahzad Ismaily . The group's first album was Party Intellectuals . The follow-up album Your Turn was released in 2013 . In the project The Young Philadelphians , Ribot interprets hits of the Philly sound of the 1970s with Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Calvin Weston and Mary Halvorson . In 2015, the project's first album, Live in Tokyo, was released . Released in 2018 with YRU Still Here? (with Ceramic Dog) and Songs of Resistance 1942–2018 (with guest appearances by Tom Waits and Steve Earle, among others ) two very political albums by Ribot, which, according to his own statements, were also inspired by Donald Trump's presidency.

Ribot is the president of the Content Creators Coalition , an organization committed to the fair treatment of music creators in the age of digital media. In particular, she is critical of Spotify and similar streaming services . On Your Turn by Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog is a sarcastic song takes Masters of the Internet , which Ribot's anger focuses on piracy. The song was offered as a free stream in advance of the album release.

Marc Ribot (left) with John Zorn performing for Bar Kokhba at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2014

Discography (selection)

  • Rootless Cosmopolitans (1990)
  • Requiem for What's His Name (1992)
  • Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus (1993)
  • Shrek (1994)
  • Don't Blame Me (1995)
  • Subsonic - Sounds of a Distant Episode (1995)
  • The Book of Heads (1995) (solo guitar compositions by John Zorn )
  • Shoe String Symphonettes (1997)
  • The Prosthetic Cubans (1998) (as Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Posizos)
  • Yo! I Killed Your God (1999)
  • Muy Divertido! (2000) (as Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Posizos)
  • Saints (2001)
  • Inasmuch as Life is Borrowed (2001)
  • Scelsi Morning (2003)
  • Soundtracks, Vol. 2 (2003)
  • Spiritual Unity (2005) (with songs by Albert Ayler )
  • Asmodeus: Book of Angels, Vol. 7 (2007) (with compositions from John Zorn's Book of Angels )
  • Exercises in Futility (2008)
  • Party Intellectuals (2008) (as Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog)
  • Silent Movies (2010)
  • Your Turn (2013) (as Ceramic Dog)
  • Live at the Village Vanguard (2014) (as Marc Ribot Trio)
  • Live in Tokyo (2015) (The Young Philadelphians)
  • YRU Still Here? (2018) (as Ceramic Dog)
  • Songs of Resistance 1942-2018 (2018)

Film adaptations

  • Marc Ribot. La Corde Perdue / The Lost String , director: Anaïs Prosaïc, 82 min.
  • Marc Ribot: Descent into Baldness , directed by Birgit Staudt Cassis / Jörg Söchting (1996)

Lexicographical entries

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reclams Jazz Lexicon. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. Reclam-Verlag, 2009, p. 440.
  2. ^ Cf. Robert Fischer : Anything goes. In: All that Jazz. The story of a music. 3rd, expanded and updated edition. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, p. 442.
  3. ^ Joachim-Ernst Berendt and Günther Huesmann: Das Jazzbuch. From New Orleans to the 21st century . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-596-15964-2 , pp. 563 .
  4. ↑ Songs of Resistance to anti.com, accessed on 15 September 2018th
  5. ↑ If Streaming Is Good for Musicians, You Can Kiss Jazz and Other Genres Goodbye , Ribot's New York Times comment of November 7, 2014, accessed January 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog Slam Free Culture on Art-Grinder 'Masters of the Internet' on Spin.com, March 25, 2013, accessed January 20, 2015.
  7. ↑ http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=32298 accessed on December 16, 2010
  8. ↑ http://www.musicfilmweb.com/db/film/marc-ribot-descent-into-baldness/ accessed on December 16, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Ribot, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American avant-garde guitarist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , New Jersey