Marc Ribot Ceramic Dog
Marc Ribot Ceramic Dog
Marc Ribot (guitar, vocals), Shahzad Ismaily (bass, electronics), Ches Smith (drums, electronics)
Born in New Jersey in 1954, Marc Ribot is one of the most innovative and creative guitarists of the last decades. Ribot’s music – he also is a composer and singer – is always linked to the world of experimentation and improvisation, departing from absolute freedom, with a special penchant towards raw rock, direct and loud.
Ribot studied classic guitar and learnt soul by playing with Rufus Thomas and Solomon Burke. He firmly established his style during the time he played alongside John Lurie and the Lounge Lizars. In his over 40 years in the business, he has collaborated with artists of the calibre of Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson, McCoy Tyner, Marianne Faithfull, Alan Toussaint, Caetano Veloso, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Sun Ra, Norah Jones, Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, T-Bone Burnett, David Sylvian, Arto Lindsay, David Hidalgo, Vinicius Cantuaria, Marisa Monte, Andrés Calamaro... A significant presence on the New York scene, he usually works with his friend, John Zorn, and has been part of groups such as The Jazz Passengers, Los Cubanos Postizos and The Lounge Lizards.
Ceramic Dog is a “post rock power trio”, a band they themselves consider a “group free of any binding label, with punk, funk and experimental music all there in the mix”. They recorded their first album, Party Intellectuals, in 2008; then Your Turn (2013), YRU Still Here? (2018), Hope (2021) and, finally, Connection (2023), the record they will present at this 60th edition of Jazzaldia.
Ribot is unique and defies categorisation, possessing an amazing technique and seemingly boundless creativity. He can surprise and provoke, make us think and amuse us, with his wonderfully unpredictable concerts. In recognition of his career as a whole, and as a token of gratitude for all the great concerts he has brought to us every time he has come to our festival, Jazzaldia shall give the Donostiako Jazzaldia award this year to Marc Ribot.
