Didier Malherbe
Didier Malherbe (born January 22, 1943 in Paris ) is a French jazz musician (saxophone, flutes , but also duduk ). Malherbe is a long-time member of the band Gong and has been involved in numerous other projects. In 1995 he founded the Hadouk Trio .
biography
Malherbe learned to play the alto and tenor saxophone as a teenager , came into contact with Indian music on a trip to India in the early 1960s and later studied classical flute playing with René Leroy . Together with rock musicians, he first appeared on stage in 1967 at the rock theater Les Idoles ; but he also jammed in jazz clubs like the "Chat qui pêche". A Soft Machine concert is said to have caused him to turn to fusion or jazz rock .
In 1968 he stayed in Deia on Mallorca , where he the former guitarist of Soft Machine , Daevid Allen (1938-2015), and his former partner Gilli Smyth met (1933-2016), with whom he the beginning the following year back in France Gong formed the core of the band . At Gong Malherbe appeared partly under the pseudonym Bloomdido Bad de Grass , which was composed of the title Bloomdido by Charlie Parker and a French-sounding English translation of his surname. His saxophone is the dominant melodic instrument on the band's early albums. Malherbe remained with the band, which had already released numerous albums with changing line-ups until the mid-1970s, including the central Radio Gnome trilogy , even after Allen and Smyth left 1975/76 and continued to work on some of the albums until 1978 now after the musical director Pierre Moerlen as Pierre Moerlen's Gong operating band ( e.g. Downwind ).
In 1977 he founded his own band Bloom , with which he released a jazz rock album and went on several tours. With François Cahen , the former pianist of the band Magma, he then formed the band Faton Bloom , which existed from 1982 to 1988. In addition to his own bands, Malherbe took part in numerous other projects and played a. a. with Didier Lockwood , Hugh Hopper , Cyrille Verdeaux , Jean-Philippe Rykiel , Pierre Bensusan , National Health as well as with various bands of former colleagues of Gong, including Mother Gong by Gilli Smyth and Equipe Out by Pip Pyle .
In the late 1980s he joined Daevid Allen's Invisible Opera Company of Tibet project , which soon traded as Gongmaison and from which a Gong reunion emerged in 1994 , which Malherbe is still connected to today, although the saxophonist Theo Travis is now firmly established there Took up space.
In the early 1990s, Malherbe formed the Zeff , Fluvius and Fétish projects , in which musicians such as Jean-Luc Ponthieux, Pip Pyle, Jean-Philippe Rykiel, Emmanuel Binet and Michel Godard played. In 1995 he founded his band Hadouk Trio , which still exists today , with whom he has released several albums.
Didier Malherbe can be heard on over 30 albums by the band Gong , on around a dozen albums of his own projects and on around 50 albums with various musicians.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography on calyx.club.fr ( Memento from June 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malherbe, Didier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French fusion musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |