Didier Malherbe's Hadouk win French jazz award

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From the homepage of Gong:

Hadouk Honoured  Posted Sun 10 Jun'07

Thanks to Luc Pilmeyer I can pass on the happy news that Didier
Malherbe and the Hadouk Trio have received a prestigious music award in
France, the 'Victoire du Jazz' as 'Artists of the Year', the ceremony was also broadcast on the FR3 TV channel.

Loy, Dider, Steve

Looks as if Didier is about to try and get a tune out of the award - he probably could.

The music business is so very bizarre. Hadouk's last album 'Utopies'
sold over 16,000 copies in France last year and the band get this great
acknowledgement from their peers. However because the album has no
worldwide distribution to speak of it has sold 150 copies in the entire
rest of the planet (about half of those via this website, the rest in
Canada probably), and the band couldn't get arrested the UK let alone
sell out a gig. Very odd. Still we love them and so apparently do
France.

Edited by BaldFriede - July 27 2007 at 15:10