American guitarist and composer Marc Ribot (born 1954 in Newark, New Jersey), who has drawn on all the guitar's discourse in half a century of popular and improvised music, has embodied New York's artistic avant-garde since the mid-1980s, with a highly personal approach to the instrument, whether solo, in a trio ("Spiritual Unity", "Ceramic Dog") or alongside
John Zorn, Tom Waits, John Lurie, Elvis Costello, Caetano Veloso, Marianne Faithfull and many others.
