Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog w/ Shahzad Ismaily & Ches Smith: Jazz Musician in New York

About Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog w/ Shahzad Ismaily & Ches Smith

Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog is the guitarist’s working trio, here appearing at Pianos with multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Ches Smith. Ribot’s career moves between rock songwriting and the open forms of experimental and free jazz, with recent NYC performances at LPR reflecting that range. Ismaily and Smith bring a studio-seasoned, genre-blurring vocabulary shaped by improvised music and noise rock. The group’s sets favor friction and momentum over polish, with rhythm used as a framework rather than a constraint.