DIDIER MALHERBE
Genres: World Fusion, Jazz Related Rock, Blues • France

For Didier Malherbe and Loy Ehrlich Hadouk search under "Hadouk" Didier Antonin Malherbe was born in Paris in 1943. Discovering jazz as a teenager, he soon received classical training on the saxophone from a conservatory pupil. For two years, he also learned classical theory, until on one fateful day, aged 15, he followed a beret (!) into a basement at St. Germain-des-Prés and began an initiation into jamming with jazz musicians. Numerous jams at prestigious jazz venues such as 'Le Caveau de la Montagne' and 'Le Chat Qui Pêche' followed in the late 50's. Meanwhile, Malherbe was attending Sorbonne university where he took an interest in philosophy and foreign languages. In 1962, after hearing the first Ravi Shankar album, Malherbe travelled to India, where he discovered bamboo flute and spend three months trying to play one (and breaking many). Returning to France, he started taking classical flute lessons, on the grounds that read more...