ACT is a German record label founded in 1992 by Siegfried Loch. 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. 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. 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.
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Artists on ACT Music
Miles Davis
1926–1991 · American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer…
Gilberto Gil
b. 1942 · Brazilian recording artist, singer, guitarist, songwriter…
Gil Evans
1912–1988 · American composer, arranger, bandleader, and pianist…
Larry Coryell
1943–2017 · American guitarist (1943–2017)
Joe Pass
1929–1994 · American jazz guitarist
Klaus Doldinger
1936–2025 · German musician, composer, bandleader and saxophonist…
Philip Catherine
b. 1942 · British-Belgian jazz rock guitarist
Bob Brookmeyer
1929–2011 · American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and…
Leszek Możdżer
b. 1971 · Polish musician
Nils Landgren
b. 1956 · Swedish musician
Terri Lyne Carrington
b. 1965 · American drummer (born 1965)
Eddie Harris
1934–1996 · American jazz musician (1934–1996)
Vijay Iyer
b. 1971 · American composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, and writer
Esbjörn Svensson Trio
1993– · Swedish jazz trio
Dhafer Youssef
b. 1967 · Tunisian musician
Sidsel Endresen
b. 1952 · Norwegian musician
Bugge Wesseltoft
b. 1964 · Norwegian jazz musician, pianist, composer and producer
Esbjörn Svensson
1964–2008 · Swedish jazz pianist (1964-2008)
Joachim Kühn
b. 1944 · German jazz pianist
Iiro Rantala
b. 1970 · Finnish jazz pianist, composer and entertainer
Viktoria Tolstoy
b. 1974 · Swedish singer
Lars Danielsson
b. 1958 · Swedish jazz musician
Solveig Slettahjell
b. 1971 · Norwegian jazz vocalist, composer
Jasper van 't Hof
b. 1947 · Dutch musician
Markus Stockhausen
b. 1957 · German trumpeter, music producer and composer (jazz…
Nguyên Lê
b. 1959 · French jazz guitarist
Jan Lundgren
b. 1966 · Swedish jazz pianist and composer (born 1966)
Marius Neset
b. 1985 · Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer
Youn Sun Nah
b. 1969 · South Korean jazz singer
Wolfgang Haffner
b. 1965 · German musician
Attila Zoller
1927–1998 · Hungarian Jazz guitarist (1927-1998)
Vincent Peirani
b. 1980 · French musician
Ulf Wakenius
b. 1958 · Swedish musician
Vince Mendoza
b. 1961 · American composer
Janis Siegel
b. 1952 · American singer
Michel Benita
b. 1954 · French musician
Magnus Öström
b. 1965 · Swedish drummer
Dan Berglund
b. 1963 · Swedish double-bass player and jazz musician
Michael Gibbs
b. 1937 · Rhodesian born English jazz composer
Anton Eger
b. 1980 · Jazz drummer
Geir Lysne
b. 1965 · Norwegian musician
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German company founded by Siegfried E. Loch.
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Labelcode: LC 7644 / LC 07644.
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