Jazz Articles about Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos

Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos: ?Muy Divertido! (Very Entertaining!)

by Douglas Payne
May 1, 2000

Surely a disc that lives up to its own title, ?Muy Divertido! (Very Entertaining!) is difficult to consider from a jazz perspective. So maybe it ain't jazz. Maybe it doesn't matter. But, then again, eccentric downtown guitarist Marc Ribot has made a career out of being unpredictable - and never less than totally interesting.On this, his second hip trip to Cuban climes with his group, Los Cubanos Postizos, the landscape is engaging and strikingly pretty. But it's dirty ...