Various Artists Twenty Five Magic Years The Jubilee Album
ACT is proud to mark this milestone with a “Jubilee Album”. However, the label has taken care to steer well clear of the predictable. Except three tracks everything on the album is being released for the first time. The result is a newly crafted summation of the kind of music for which ACT exists: music that can touch the heart, stir the soul and lift the spirit of the listener. It is a kaleidoscope of magical musical moments by artists with an openness of mind to all genres and styles.
It is now 25 years since Siggi Loch properly set about being “useful rather than important” (the phrase is from his autobiography) and to move on from a successful and distinguished career in the international record industry to found his own independent jazz label, ACT. What he had in mind from the start was that it should be a platform to promote the kind of musicians who are capable of touching the emotions of their audience, of creating excitement and winning people over, artists who tend to court danger by avoiding the well-trodden paths – in other words they make their music “in the spirit of jazz.” Now, a quarter of a century and over 500 albums later, it is definitely a case of having delivered on that promise. As a “discovery label”, ACT has written part of the continuing story of jazz, and its family of musicians are now lead...
Line up:Various Artists
Recording Information:Total time: 70:00
Curated by Siggi Loch
Mastered by Klaus Scheuermann
Cover art by Jiri Geller, SMILE!, 2016
@ ACT Art Collection
Track List:
- Come Together ( John Lennon / Paul McCartney)04:26
- Shadows In The Rain ( Sting: G. M. Sumner)03:52
- Dodge The Dodo ( Esbjörn Svensson / Dan Berglund / Magnus Öström)06:41
- Paco´s Delight ( Ulf Wakenius)03:37
- Prag Ballet ( Marius Neset)05:46
- Bitter Ballad ( Youn Sun Nah)04:07
- Prelude in D Minor ( Esbjörn Svensson)04:13
- Tears for Esbjörn ( Iiro Rantala)06:45
- Walk Tall ( Nat Adderley)03:45
- Swing, Swing, Swing ( Wolfgang Haffner / Michael Wollny)06:35