ACT (record label)
| ACT | |
|---|---|
| Active years | Since 1992 |
| founder | Siegfried Loch |
| Seat | Munich |
| Website | actmusic.com |
| Genre (s) | jazz |
ACT is a German jazz - record label . It was founded as ACT Music & Vision in 1992 in Hamburg by Siegfried Loch . The head office has been in Munich since 2003 .
By its 20th anniversary in 2012, the label had released around 350 CD productions.
Musician
One focus of the label is European jazz; Among the signed artists are the trombonist Nils Landgren and the early deceased pianist Esbjörn Svensson with his trio, the singers Viktoria Tolstoy and Rigmor Gustafsson , the bassist Lars Danielsson and the guitarist Ulf Wakenius . The jazz musicians from Germany on the label include Heinz Sauer , Joachim Kühn , Christof Lauer , Wolfgang Haffner , Michael Wollny (winner of the ECHO Jazz 2010 as best national instrumentalist - piano / keyboards), Matthias Schriefl . With Jazz Berlin Philharmonic I at , a live recording of a concert in which not only Wollny also the two pianists Leszek Możdżer and Iiro Rantala are heard, ACT published the beginning of a series of concerts that the by Norman Granz established tradition of Jazz at the Philharmonic tie should.
From the world jazz musicians, Nguyên Lê and Youn Sun Nah (winner of the ECHO Jazz 2011 as the best international singer) should be mentioned as well as Jasper van't Hof , Simon Nabatov , Paolo Fresu . The label's first production, Jazzpaña (by Vince Mendoza and Arif Mardin ) in 1992, earned a Grammy nomination. With Vijay Iyer (between 2009 and 2013 with ACT) and Rudresh Mahanthappa (since 2011), two Americans with Indian roots have joined the label, both of whom have won one of the most important awards for jazz musicians, the critical poll of the down beat .
Awards
Between 2010 and 2013, ACT received the ECHO Jazz as “Label of the Year” four times in a row via online voting.