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 about 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. He changes labels from dance to musical theater and has worked with the National Jazz Orchestra, Philippe Katerine, Thomas Pourquery, Jeanne Added, Gabor Gado, theatre director Sylvain Maurice, choreographer Nasser Martin- Gousset, composers Mathias Ruëgg and John Hollenbeck. Alban is the co-founder and artistic director of very active label Yolkrecords, who received a Django d’Or award and has released more than 80 references. Yolk is awarded Label of the year 2019 by Les Victoires du jazz. In 2022 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.