Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot Ribot is a powerful figure in the avant-garde world and an icon of the downtown New York jazz scene. The increasingly in-demand guitarist continues to explore the ever-changing terrain of New York's New Music scene, working with musicians such as Arto Lindsay, Don Byron, Anthony Coleman, T-Bone Burnett, the Jazz Passengers and John Zorn, in any number of incarnations. He has also performed with Elvis Costello and was an original member of John Lurie's Lounge Lizards. His faux-Cuban group Los Cubanos Postizos, has released two CDs featuring Ribot's beautifully slanted interpretations of material by the great Cuban songwriter Arsenio Rodriguez. He remains interested in amalgamating and disrupting disparate musical traditions.