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Marc Ribot Trio - Festival D'Jazz de Nevers (2011) [HDTV]

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Marc Ribot Trio - Festival D'Jazz de Nevers (2011) [HDTV]

Marc Ribot Trio - Festival D'Jazz de Nevers (2011) [HDTV]
Video: AVC High@L4.0, 1920x1080 (16:9), ~6.2Mbps, 25fps | Audio: MP2 256Kbps, 48KHz, 2ch | 00:59:43 | 2.9 GB (3% rec.)
Instrumental Jazz, Avant-Garde, Rock | Mezzo Live HD | HDTV->TS

Marc Ribot is the quintessential downtown guitarist, who has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and John Zorn.

Both power trio and a supergroup that spans three generations, expectations were high for this soldout concert. Drummer Chad Taylor was a lynchpin of the Chicago Underground scene and lineups that joined the dots between post-rock and contemporary improvisation. Bassist Henry Grimes has a discography that says "legend" (Sonny Rollins, Gerry Mulligan, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, McCoy Tyner) and an extraordinary personal story. And Marc Ribot is the quintessential downtown guitarist, a character actor sessioneer with an unmistakable sound (which you can hear on Tom Waits's new Bad As Me).

Guitars didn't have much of a role in the free-jazz revolution of the 1960s, but influential bands like Cream and Led Zeppelin took direct inspiration from the explorations of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane. Ribot's trio drags together these elements with the jittery scribbles of no wave and the relaxed intensity of urban blues.

A typical number starts with a short, angsty tune with busy drums, fast bass and astringent, powerful guitar chording. Grimes's solos are fluid and emotional. Taylor fuses Elvin Jones's "circles of sound" with razor-sharp timekeeping.

And then the mood will change, when Ribot and Grimes play a loping, country-blues riff over Taylor's brushes. The repertoire draws heavily on mid-1960s jazz, with Coltrane's Attaining and Dearly Beloved and Ayler's numinous Spirits, but Ribot avoids avant-garde nostalgia. He turns what can too often sound like impotent sax rage into focused guitar anger.

The intensely shy Grimes is compelling to watch, an island of calm while Taylor and Ribot create controlled havoc around him. The encore began with a quiet, charming and eccentric version of Bix Beiderbecke's Singing the Blues, with Grimes on violin, before ending on a gloriously noisy, rolling and tumbling version of Coltrane's Ascension. Audience response: ecstatic.
Tracklist:
Spirits
Truth is Marching in
Fat Man Blues
Sun Ship
Witches & Devils
Blues

Line-up:
Marc Ribot - guitare,
Henry Grimes - contrebasse,
Chad Taylor - drums

Filmed 08 Nov 2011.

Marc Ribot Trio - Festival D'Jazz de Nevers (2011) [HDTV]

Marc Ribot Trio - Festival D'Jazz de Nevers (2011) [HDTV]

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