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As a teenager interested in learning to play the guitar, his parents sent him for lessons with Haiti an guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus , a family friend. Ribot later recorded an album of Casseus's guitar music. Ribot has performed and recorded with Jack McDuff , Wilson Pickett , The Lounge Lizards , Arto Lindsay , Medeski, Martin And Wood , Cibo Matto , Elvis Costello , Peruvian singer Susana Baca and John Zorn , among dozens of others, and has lead his own groups such as Shrek , Los Cubanos Postizos , Spiritual Unity , and Ceramic Dog , and served as a composer and/or performer within various film productions. 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." {Link without Title} Ribot provided his unique guitar playing on several of Waits' seminal albums, including the so-called 'Frank's Trilogy' of "Swordfishtrombones," "Rain Dogs," and "Frank's Wild Years," as well as "Mule Variations" and "Real Gone." He has appeared on numerous studio recordings by John Zorn such as the Filmworks series, "The Gift" , "Bar Kokhba" and "The Circle Maker". He is also a member of John Zorn 's Electric Masada . Marc has released two albums with his self-described "dance band" http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1165 Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos Prosthetic Cubans . This outfit comprised of Ribot Anthony Coleman [organ , EJ Rodriguez Brad Jones [bass , and Roberto Rodriguez [drums] performs Ribot's interpretations of the work of late Cuban composer Arsenio Rodriguez. Ribot's playing and compositions draw on such diverse musical 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
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