Malachi Favors

Malachi Favors Magoustous ( born August 22, 1937 in Lexington, Mississippi, † January 30, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American jazz bassist.

Life and work

Favors played from the age of fifteen bass. After military service in Korea, he worked in Chicago mid-1950s with musicians like Andrew Hill (eg 1956 for the doo-wop label Ping), sometimes with the trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Freddie Hubbard. In 1961 he became a member of Muhal Richard Abrams ' Experimental Band The. Since its founding, he was member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians ( AACM ). In 1966 he became a member of Roscoe Mitchell Quartet, which spawned the Art Ensemble of Chicago. During his long membership in this group, he worked on numerous albums and played alongside the bass and zither, banjo, harmonica, drums and other instruments.

Outside the Art Ensemble Favors also worked with musicians such as Archie Shepp, Sunny Murray, Dewey Redman, Muhal Richard Abrams and the group The Ritual Trio. With Lester Bowie, he recorded the album From the Root to the Source, in 1977 he released his solo album Natural and the Spiritual. In 1994 Favors played with Roman Bunka and Fathy Salama at JazzFest Berlin. The CD Color Me Cairo ( Enja ) was born. In 1998, he participated in a duo with bassist Tatsu Aoki on the album 2x4 ( Southport ). Shortly before his death the album was Maghostut Trio - Live at Last ( RogueArt ).

Lexical entries

  • Richard Cook Jazz Encyclopedia London: Penguin, 2007; ISBN 978-0-141-02646-6
  • Wolf Kampmann Reclams Jazz Encyclopedia Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5
Lexington (Mississippi) Doo Wop Enja Records Richard Cook (journalist) Integrated Authority File
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