MARC RIBOT QUARTET feat. MARY HALVORSON (Late Show)

Marc Ribot, who The NY Times describes as a deceptively articulate artist who uses inarticulateness as an expressive device, has released 25 albums under his own name over a 40-year career, exploring everything from the pioneering jazz of Albert Ayler to the Cuban son of Arsenio Rodrguez to his Ceramic Dog and to his original scores and solo guitar works. Additionally, Marcs has a first collection of writings, Unstrung: Rants .Rolling Stone points out that Guitarist Marc Ribot helped Tom Waits refine a new, weird Americana on 1985s Rain Dogs, and since then hes become the go-to guitar guy for all kinds of roots-music adventurers: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp. Additional recording credits include Neko Case, Diana Krall, Elton John/Leon Russells The Union, Solomon Burke, John Luries Lounge Lizards, Marianne Faithful, Joe Henry, Allen Toussaint, Medeski Martin u, Akiko Yano, The Black Keys, and many others. Marc works regularly with Grammy award winning producer T Bone Burnett and NY composer John Zorn. He has also composed and performed on numerous film scores such as Walk The Line, The Kids Are All Right, and The Departed (Scorcese).Guitarist, composer and MacArthur fellow Mary Halvorson has been described as a singular talent, NYCs least-predictable improviser, one of the most original jazz guitarists of our time, and one of todays most formidable bandleaders. In recent Downbeat Critics Polls she has been celebrated as guitarist, rising star jazz artist, and rising star composer of the year. Halvorsons most recent release, Cloudward (Nonesuch Records, 2024), features her Amaryllis sextet, with Adam OFarrill (trumpet), Jacob Garchik (trombone), Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums), along with special guest Laurie Anderson (violin) on one track.Over the past two decades she has worked with such diverse musicians as Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Taylor Ho Bynum, John Dieterich, Trevor Dunn, Bill Frisell, Ingrid Laubrock, Myra Melford, Jason Moran, Joe Morris, Tom Rainey, Jessica Pavone, Tomeka Reid, Marc Ribot, Ches Smith and John Zorn.