All About Jazz is celebrating Malachi Favors' birthday today!
Malachi Favors- acoustic bass
Malachi Favors was the mainstay bassist in a remarkable group that combined traditional elements of jazz and blues, West African music, chanting, ritual, abstract sound and silence. The Art Ensemble of Chicago was one of the landmark groups of experimental jazz. But with all its theatricality the rudiments were not slighted. Favors, a concise, direct and eloquent player, formed a boldly swinging rhythm section with the drummer Don Moye.
Favors sometimes added Maghostut to his name, which his daughter said was an Egyptian word meaning ”I am the host.” Favors...Read more.
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