Alban Darche, Jean-Louis Pommier, Sébastien Boisseau
Biography Alban Darche, Jean-Louis Pommier, Sébastien Boisseau
Alban Darche
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.
Destined to scientific studies, Alban Darche chose to flourish in the artistic field: after classical music studies at the Conservatoire de Nantes, he joined the jazz class of the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris.
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 Ad- ded, Gabor Gado, theatre director Sylvain Maurice, choreographer Nasser Martin- Gousset, writer Pierre Bordage, dramatic author Marion Aubert and more.
Alban Darche and drummer and composer John Hollenbeck were awarded the French-American Jazz Exchange for their collaboration in the US-Eu- ropean quartet JASS, feat. Sebastien Boisseau and Samuel Blaser . In 2016 Alban co-composed « Le Tombeau de Poulenc" a orchestral piece for big- band and two pianos with composers Mathias Ruëgg et Jean-Christophe Cholet.
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.
Alban Darche has played with...Steve Argüelles, John Hollenbeck, Samuel Blaser, Thomas de Pourquery, Daniel Yvinec, David Chevallier, Tim Berne, Marc Ducret, Julien Lourau, Kenny Wheeler, Driss El Maloumi, Baptiste Trotignon, André Minvielle, Vincent Courtois, Katerine, Geoffroy de Masure, Evan Parker, Olivier Sens, Franck Vaillant, D’ de Kabal, Dgiz, Médéric Colligon, Stéphane Payen, Christophe Lavergne, Sylvain Rifflet, Julien Lourau, Laurent Blondiau, Eric Vloiemans, Julian Siegel, Gilles Coronado, François Thuillier, Daniel Casimir, Fred Pallem, Jeanne Added, Tom Arthurs, Didier Ithursarry, Laia Genc, Jean-Philippe Morel, Tim Hagans, Ingrid Laubrock, Jon Irabagon...
... in numerous festivals, theaters and clubs in France : Banlieues Bleues, Europa Jazz Festivat , Jazz à Cluny, Jazz à Couches, Jazz au fil de l’Oise, Jazz sous les Pommiers, Jazzdor à Strasbourg, Les Rendez-Vous de l’Erdre, Nancy Jazz Pulsation, Flâneries musicales de Reims, Paris jazz Festival, Tourcoing Jazz Festival...
... and abroad: Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey, China, USA, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Morocco, England , Korea, Japan.
Sebastien Boisseau
Living in Nantes where he jointly runs the Yolk Records label, Sébastien Boisseau has become a reknown double bass player in Europe.
He develops a powerful and elegant playing, his references are anchored in jazz, somewhere between Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Marc Johnson and Scott Lafaro.
He composes for his projects Wood and Unit and participates in numerous collective projects in France and in Europe
Faithful to his early partners (Alban Darche, Denis Badault, Matthieu Donarier, Jean-Louis Pommier) he has collaborated and produced music with numerous figures of Jazz : Daniel Humair, Joachim Kühn, Louis Sclavis, Charlie Mariano, Marc Ducret, Martial Solal, Misha Mengelberg, John Hollenbeck, Pat Metheny, Michel Portal, Gábor Gadó, Eric Watson, Stéphan Oliva, Hans Lüdemann, Samuel Blaser, Piotr Wojstasik, John Tchicai, Mikko Innanen, Kenny Werner, Simon Goubert, Pierre Dørge…
His meeting with Jean-Yves Evrard has taken him towards other approaches of instant music like with his performances (the project « Il n'y a pas de fraises en hiver » = there are not strawberries in winter), singing (Daniel Hélin) and theatre where he plays alongside him in the play by flemsich author Arne Sierens « DePijnders »)
In 2011, he composes the score for the silent film by Teinosuke Kinugasa « A mad page » 1926 which he interprets at the « festival of art history » in Fontainebleau.
With Louis Sclavis and Jean-Paul Delore they have designed « Idioms and Lights » a recital based on French speaking authors (Michaux, Sony Labou Tansi, Dieudonné Niangona, Charles Beaudelaire…). Sébastien Boisseau also offers short duo programmes in « music lounges » where the host invites his friends and neighbours to discover the practice of improvisation at close range.
Jean-Louis Pommier
Following his classical music studies at the Conservatoire of music in Le Mans, Jean Louis Pommier dedicated himself to jazz and has played in many French metropolitan jazz formations (Big Band Jean-Loup Longnon, Big Band Ornicar, Bande à Badault, ONJ Badault, Barthélemy & Tortiller, Onztet de Caratini, Multicolor Feeling d’Eddy Louiss, Zoom Top Orchestra, Le Gros Cube d’Alban Darche...)
In addition to his many musical collaborations he participates in numerous teaching projects. He has also emerged as a renowned composer completing commissions for Radio France and Europa Jazz Festival. He composes particularly for his group Qüntet and more recently for the LPT.3 trio.
He is also a co-founder (along with Alban Darche and Sébastien Boisseau) of the very active music label and collective YOLK which has offered a generation of musicians the opportunity to flourish.
