Friends - I will be playing two hours of the music of the great Malachi Favors Maghoustut today (Thursday) at 4:00 EST. The show can be heard on 103.9 FM in (parts of) New York City, and will be webcast at <http://www.screwmusicforever.com/free103/freemenu.html> Below is information and the playlist. Please listen. -kurt
Bassist Malachi Favors Maghostut died January 30 at, according to some sources, the age of 67, although he claimed to be more than 43,000 years old. He was the quiet and deeply mystic member of The Art Ensemble of Chicago, a band that worked an air of Afrocentric mythology into its act, and was the only one to keep his home in Chicago. Favors was a member of the Muhal Richard Abrams Experimental Band in 1961, the ensemble that evolved into the seminal Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. He was a quiet man, rarely giving interviews or leading bands, but his hypnotically repeating bass was a defining part of not just the AECO but Kahil ElZabars Ritual Trio, and projects with Sunny Murray, Archie Shepp, Dewey Robinson and others. The Squids Ear presents a memorial tribute to the music of this passed master, selecting his compositions from the Art Ensemble songbook as well as his work with some of the some of the worlds greatest (primarily Chicago, of course) improvisers. Programmed by SQE editor Kurt Gottschalk. The Procession - Malachi Favors Maghoustut from Natural & The Spiritual (AECO Records) "the procession a salute 'fair de well to Phillip Wilson, one of the former percussionists of the early Roscoe Mitchell quartet and AEC" - from the liner notes Recorded live, April 27, 1977 Tutankhamum - Art Ensemble of Chicago from Tutankhamum (Black Lion reissue) Recorded June, 1969 Way Down Yonder - Art Ensemble of Chicago from Naked (DIW) Recorded November, 1985, and July, 1986 Way Way Way Down Yonder - Muhal Richard Abrams and Malachi Favors from Sightsong (Black Saint) Recorded October, 1975 Tarik - Dewey Redman from Jazzactuel (Charly reissue) Recorded October, 1969 Fathy's Fourteen - Roman Bunka from Color Me Cairo (enja) Recorded November, 1994 Africanasia Pt. 1 (Excerpt) - Claude Decloo/Arthur Jones from Jazzactuel (Charly reissue) Recorded August, 1969 Blase - Archie Shepp from Jazzactuel (Charly reissue) Recorded August, 1969 Black Man Tripover/Woman's Takeover - Malachi Favors Maghoustut from Natural & The Spiritual (AECO Records) Tanka I - Brigitte Fontaine Tanka II - Brigitte Fontaine from Comme à la Radio (Saravah) Recorded in 1971 A Long Time Ago - Malachi Favors Maghoustut and Tatsu Aoki from 2x4 (Southport) Recorded August, 1998 Ride the Line - Art Ensemble of Chicago & Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy from Live at the Eighth Tokyo Music Joy (DIW) Recorded February, 1990 This Little Light of Mine - Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio from Jitterbug Junction (CIMP) Recorded June, 1997 Tutankhamum - Art Ensemble of Chicago from Tribute to Lester (ECM) Recorded September, 2001 Keep On Keeping On - Roscoe Mitchell from Hey, Donald (Delmark) Recorded May, 1994 Gone - Malachi Favors Maghoustut from Natural & The Spiritual (AECO Records) All compositions by Malachi Favors except "Tarik," "Fathy's Fourteen," "Africanasia Pt. 1," "Blase," "Tanka I," "Tanka II," and "This Little Light of Mine." "This Little Light of Mine" arranged by Malachi Favors. _________________________________________________________________ Check out the great features of the new MSN 9 Dial-up, with the MSN Dial-up Accelerator. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/