Passings: Remembering Violin Maker Ole Steffen Dahl, Bassist Malachi Favors
Violin maker Ole Steffen Dahl, a native of Denmark, died on January 10 in Ohio. He was 84. As a teenager, Dahl apprenticed at the Emil Hjorth & Sons violin firm in Copenhagen to learn the fine art of stringed-instrument making and repair. After World War II, during which he served in the resistance movement, Dahl and his wife Diana settled in Chicago, where he began his long career working as a violin maker, first for Lyon & Healy and later for Kenneth Warren & Son. In 1967, he opened his own shop in Bloomington, Indiana. . . . Bassist Malachi Favors, a founding member of the influential avant-garde jazz band the Art Ensemble of Chicago, died of pancreatic cancer on January 30, at Illinois Masonic Hospital in Chicago. He is believed to have been 77 at the time of his death. He took up the bass at 15 and studied with hard-bop players Wilbur Ware and Paul Chambers before working with trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard and—later, in the Art Ensemble—Lester Bowie
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