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ACT Music

ACT
Parent companyACT Music + Vision
Founded1992 (1992)
FounderSiegried Loch
Distributor(s)Allegro Distribution
GenreJazz, blues
Country of originGermany
LocationMunich
Official websiteactmusic.com/en

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]

  1. ^ Longley, Martin (2023). "ACT Turns 30, Looks Forward". Downbeat. No. 6 February. Maher Publications. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  2. ^ Kennedy, Gary (2002). Kernfeld, Barry (ed.). The new Grove dictionary of jazz (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries. p. 11. ISBN 1561592846.
  3. ^ 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. ^ Tamarkin, Jeff (2023). "Esbjörn Svensson's Secret Solo Album". JazzTimes. No. January 03. JazzTimes. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  5. ^ "Esbjörn Svensson - Reminiscence of a soul". Jazzwise. No. August 06. MA Music, Leisure & Travel Ltd. 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  6. ^ 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 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. ^ Conrad, Thomas (2019). "Esbjörn Svensson Trio: e.s.t. live in London (ACT)". JazzTimes. No. April 25. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  9. ^ "ACT Story - About ACT - ACT Music". ACT Music. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
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