User:Banalchedar/Alban Darche

Alban Darche, born in 1974 in Quimper, is a jazz musician, a saxophone player and a composer. Fonder of French label Yolk records, he is also known for his orchestra le Gros Cube.

Biography
Album after album, through an ever increasing number of line-ups and experiences, Alban Darche has been building a highly original, free-spirited and coherent body of work. He’s the ingenious composer and leader of several bands that bring together some of the most talented French and international soloists.

A saxophonist, composer and arranger, he has more that thirty albums under his name. He combines a wide range of talents mixing jazz with pop, rock, opera, cinema, rap and slam, contemporary and chamber music.

Darche and drummer and composer John Hollenbeck  were awarded the French-American Jazz Exchange for their collaboration in the US-European quartet JASS, feat. Sebastien Boisseau and Samuel Blaser. In 2016 Alban co-composed « Le Tombeau de Poulenc" an orchestral piece for big-band and two pianos with composers Mathias Ruëgg et Jean-Christophe Cholet.

En 2020 il reforme son orchestre Le Gros Cube dans une version big band In 2020 Alban reformed his bigband Le Gros Cube as a 17 pieces orchestra with an international cast, bringing together John Fedchock (US), Jon Irabagon (US), Samuel Blaser (CH), Loren Stillman (US), Marie Krüttli (CH), Jean-Paul Estievenart (BE). The album is unanimously appreciated by critics: CHOC jazzman, ÉLU Citizenjazz, INDISPENSABLE Jazznews.

En 2023 Alban and pianist and composer Baptiste Trotignon will be composing and performing their own concertos LIGNES for piano, sax and orchestra with several orchestras, world premiering with the Brittany Symphony Orchestra.

Alban played with numerous venues and festivals all over the world : Montréal jazz fest, Tokyo jazz fest, Hong-kong jazz fest, Europa Jazz Festival, Paris jazz Festival, in Germany, Suitzerland, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium, Holland, Turkey, China, USA, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Morocco, England, Korea, Japan...

He is co-founder and artistic director of label Yolkrecords, which released more than 90 albums and was awarded in 2019 label of the year by Les Victoires du jazz.

Le Cube

 * 2001 : autorité culinaire (Yolk)
 * 2002 : le thé (Yolk)
 * 2013 : frelon rouge (Yolk)

Le Gros Cube

 * 2004 : La Martipontine
 * 2007 : le Pax (avec Katerine)
 * 2008 : Polar Mood
 * 2022 : Le Gros Cube #2

L'OrphiCube

 * 2014 : My Xmas TraX, (Pépin & plume)
 * 2014 : perception instantanée, (Yolk)
 * 2018 : The Atomic Flonflons, (Yolk)

Alban Darche Trio

 * 2007 : Trickster with Emmanuel Birault, Frederic Chiffoleau (Yolk)
 * 2009 : Brut ou demi-sec? with Emmanuel Birault, Frederic Chiffoleau (Yolk)
 * 2019 : Longboard: Being Wild, with Matthieu Donarier, Meivelyan Jacquot (Yolk)
 * 2019 : Clover, with Sébastien Boisseau, Jean-Louis Pommier (Yolk)
 * 2021 : Clover "Paradigme" with Sébastien Boisseau, Jean-Louis Pommier (Yolk)

Other projects

 * 2004 : Stringed (BMC)
 * 2008 : Trumpet Kingdom (BMC)
 * 2014 : JASS (John Hollenbeck, Alban Darche, Sébastien Boisseau, Samuel Blaser) (Yolk)
 * 2020 : Le Mirifique Orchestra "Oh MLy Love" avec (avec Katerine, Thomas de Pourquery, Chloé Cailleton, Alice Lewis, Loïs le Van, Agathe Peyrat)

As a sideman

 * 2005 : Le retour (Le Sacre du Tympan)
 * 2008 : La grande ouverture (Le Sacre du Tympan)
 * 2008 : Post jazz (Issam Krimi)
 * 2017 : Onze Heures Onze Orchestra, vol. 1 (Onze Heures Onze)
 * 2018 : Le tombeau de Poulenc, Jean-christophe Cholet, (Yolk)