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Malachi Favors
Chicago, United States
Malachi Favors is credited on 708 releases across 122 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
708
Pressings credited
122
Albums
8
Decades active
59
In collections
Biography
Malachi Favors (August 22, 1927 – January 30, 2004) was an American jazz bassist who played with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
708 releases · 122 albums · active 1956–2025
- Performance · 1,975
- Other credits · 307
Studios: Studio Saravah · Tonstudio Bauer · Sound Studios, Chicago · Polydor Studios (Dames II)
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Album
1986

Man With A Movie Camera
2003

The Third Decade
1985

Live In Japan
1985

Urban Bushmen
1982

Tutankhamun
1974

The Spiritual
1972

Bande Sonore Originale Du Film "Les Stances À Sophie"
1970

A.A.C.M., Great Black Music - A Jackson In Your House
1969

Brigitte Fontaine Est...Folle
1968

Namesake
1987

Stefan
1987

Full Force
1980

Music With 58 Musicians, Volume One
1980

Live At Mandel Hall
1974

Phase One
1971

People In Sorrow
1969

Sound
1966

Renaissance Of The Resistance
1994

Nice Guys
1979

Seasons
1971

Comme À La Radio
1969
Frequent collaborators
- Art Ensemble Of Chicago
- Various
- Archie Shepp
- The Art Ensemble Of Chicago
- Roscoe Mitchell
- Sunny Murray
- Lester Bowie
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio
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