ACT Music

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Parent companyACT Music + Vision
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FounderSiegried Loch
DistributorTemplate:Pluralize from textAllegro Distribution
GenreJazz, blues
Country of originGermany
LocationMunich
Official websiteactmusic.com/en

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ACT is a German record label founded in 1992 by Siegfried Loch.[1] It is a division of ACT Music + Vision founded by Loch and Annette Humpe in 1988. ACT started as a pop music label but folded soon after it started. Loch turned it into a jazz label, at first reissuing music he had recorded for Liberty, Philips, and WEA before turning to new recordings.[2]

ACT's first release was the album Jazzpaña by Vince Mendoza and Arif Mardin and featured Michael Brecker, Al Di Meola, and Steve Khan. Though it earned two Grammy nominations, the artist that brought ACT Music to international attention was Swedish jazz pianist Esbjörn Svensson, along with his collaborators Magnus Öström and Dan Berglund, who together formed e.s.t.[3][4] e.s.t. released a string of acclaimed albums on ACT Music and are considered to have been highly influential on modern jazz music, as well as commercially successful.[5][6][7][8] Though their commercial success in Europe was not replicated in the US, their impact was nevertheless such that they became the first European jazz musicians to feature on the cover of DownBeat.[7]

ACT was voted Label of the Year in the German Echo Jazz online poll four times in a row from 2010 to 2013.[9]

Roster

ACT artists include Marius Neset, Bugge Wesseltoft, Lars Danielsson, Viktoria Tolstoy, Vijay Iyer, Leszek Mozdzer, Iiro Rantala, Nils Landgren and Esbjörn Svensson Trio.[10]

Also: Esbjörn Svensson, Rigmor Gustafsson, and Ulf Wakenius. Artists contracted from other countries are the Norwegian saxophonists Geir Lysne, Tore Brunborg, Frøy Aagre, violinist Henning Kraggerud, the band In The Country, the Swedish pianist Jacob Karlzon, the Danish vocalist Cæcilie Norby, the Belgian guitarist Philip Catherine, the Austrian pianist David Helbock, the French drummer Manu Katché. German musicians on the label include Christian Muthspiel, Joachim Kühn, Christof Lauer, Wolfgang Haffner, and Michael Wollny (winner of the ECHO Jazz award in 2010 for best instrumentalist, piano/keyboards).[11]

ACT has recorded Nguyên Lê and Youn Sun Nah (winner of the Echo Jazz award in 2011 for best singer internationally), Jasper van't Hof, Simon Nabatov, and Paolo Fresu.[12]

Discography

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References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Longley, Martin (2023). "ACT Turns 30, Looks Forward". Downbeat. No. 6 February. Maher Publications. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kennedy, Gary (2002). Kernfeld, Barry (ed.). The new Grove dictionary of jazz (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries. p. 11. ISBN 1561592846.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fordham, John (2022). "Esbjörn Svensson: HOME.S. review – buoyant, capricious, sweepingly melodic". The Guardian. No. 25 November. Guardian News & Media Limited. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tamarkin, Jeff (2023). "Esbjörn Svensson's Secret Solo Album". JazzTimes. No. January 03. JazzTimes. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Esbjörn Svensson - Reminiscence of a soul". Jazzwise. No. August 06. MA Music, Leisure & Travel Ltd. 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Morris, Hugh (2022). "A posthumous solo album reverals a jazz star's melancholy". New York Times. No. November 24. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Patterson, Ian (2018). "Esbjorn Svensson Trio: e.s.t. live in london". AllAboutJazz. No. August 05. All About Jazz & Jazz Near You. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Conrad, Thomas (2019). "Esbjörn Svensson Trio: e.s.t. live in London (ACT)". JazzTimes. No. April 25. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ACT Story - About ACT - ACT Music". ACT Music. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fordham, John (2012-01-12). "ACT Records: 'It doesn't happen like this in the corporate world'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-04-11.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jazz Live: Michael Wollny/Tamar Halperin" (in Deutsch). Die Zeit. 2014-09-23. Retrieved 2015-04-11.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ritter Loch vom Orden des Jazz" (in Deutsch). Die Zeit. 2010-05-04. Retrieved 2015-04-11.

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