ACT Music
| ACT | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1992 |
| Founder | Siegfried Loch |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Location | Munich |
| Official website |
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ACT is a German, Munich-based music label which was founded in 1992 by Siegfried Loch. ACT artists include: Marius Neset, Bugge Wesseltoft, Lars Danielsson, Viktoria Tolstoy, Vijay Iyer, Leszek Mozdzer, Iiro Rantala, Nils Landgren and Esbjörn Svensson Trio.[1]
Musicians
One of the label's main focuses is European jazz. To those artists taken under contract from Sweden you find the trombonist Nils Landgren and the deceased young pianist Esbjörn Svensson with his trio, the singers Viktoria Tolstoy and Rigmor Gustafsson, bassist Lars Danielsson and guitarist Ulf Wakenius. Artists contracted from other countries are the Norwegian saxophonists Geir Lysne, Tore Brunborg, Marius Neset and Frøy Aagre, pianist Bugge Wesseltoft, violinist Henning Kraggerud, the band In The Country, the Danish vocalist Cæcilie Norby, the Belgian guitarist Philip Catherine, the French drummer Manu Katché. The jazz musicians from Germany signed to the label include Christian Muthspiel, Joachim Kühn, Christof Lauer, Wolfgang Haffner, and Michael Wollny (winner of the ECHO Jazz 2010 as the best national instrumentalist - Piano/Keyboards).[2]
From the field world jazz musicians are as Nguyên Lê and Youn Sun Nah (winner of the ECHO Jazz 2011 as the best singer internationally) to call and also other Jasper van't Hof, Simon Nabatov, Paolo Fresu. The very first production of the label, Jazzpaña (from Vince Mendoza and Arif Mardin) in 1992, brought a Grammy-nomination. With Vijay Iyer (2009-2013 ACT) and Rudresh Mahanthappa (since 2011), two Americans with Indian roots have been connected to the label, both among the most important prizes to win for jazz musicians, the Kritikerpoll of the jazz magazine Down Beat. ACT was awarded best Jazz label by the ECHO Jazz 2010, as for the next three years.[3]
Awards
In the 2010 to 2013 ACT received four times in a row online vote ECHO Jazz as "Label of the Year".
Discography
References
- ↑ Fordham, John (2012-01-12). "ACT Records: 'It doesn't happen like this in the corporate world'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-04-11.
- ↑ "Jazz Live: Michael Wollny/Tamar Halperin" (in German). Die Zeit. 2014-09-23. Retrieved 2015-04-11.
- ↑ "Ritter Loch vom Orden des Jazz" (in German). Die Zeit. 2010-05-04. Retrieved 2015-04-11.