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Marc Ribot: The Jazz-bins at The Atlantic BKLN
Courtesy of Hannah Hubbell | Posted on May 23, 2022
When
Thu, May 26, 2022
9:00 pm
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Musicians
Marc Ribot
guitarGreg Lewis
organ, Hammond B3About
Marc Ribot’s four months with jazz organ legend Brother Jack MacDuff were his first ever with an internationally touring artist. Their 1979 itinerary included Ribot’s first concerts in Europe, and his only to date in Gary Indiana and Rochester NY. Although the two never recorded together (due to artistic differences that became apparent in Ribot’s later work...Brother Jack reportedly spent much of their stage time fixing Ribot with what sidemusicians referred to as his “death ray”), Ribot never lost his affection for MacDuff’s music and the Hammond organ dominated Soul Jazz scene from which it emerged. Says Ribot: “MacDuff's US audiences—the so-called ‘Chitlin Circuit’ were just the hippest in the world: sophisticated about the music, definitely, but also demanding the deepest soul while rewarding restraint in its expression. What this brought out in the musicians was every bit as intense as the music taking shape at CBGBs at the time. In fact, I always felt the two scenes had something in common, and I’ve been trying to express exactly what ever since."...