On free103point9 Online Radio, BION and Radioo. 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 El?Zabar?s Ritual Trio, and projects with Sunny Murray, Archie Shepp, Dewey Robinson and others. The Squid's 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 world's greatest (primarily Chicago, of course) improvisers. Programmed by SQE editor Kurt Gottschalk.