Marc Ribot

A strikingly gifted guitarist whose repertoire runs the gamut from traditionalist roots music to jagged free improvisation, Marc Ribot has enjoyed a successful career as an in-demand sideman as well as leading numerous recording and performing projects of his own. Ribot was born in Newark, New Jersey on May 21, 1954. He took up the guitar as a teenager, and began playing with local rock bands while in high school. As his interests in music expanded, Ribot began studying with Frantz Casseus, a Haitian composer and classical guitarist; he'd later go on to record a number of Cass...