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VÖ: 07.08.2015
Genre: Crossover
Various Artists:
CD1 „The Beginning“
including Sidney Bechet, Dave Brubeck, Klaus Doldinger & George Gruntz
CD2 „Blues & Rock“
including John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, Jerry Lee Lewis & Spencer Davis Group
CD3 „Crossing Borders“
including Al Di Meola, Gerardo Nuñez, Bugge Wesseltoft, Larry Coryell & Joachim Kühn
CD4 „Visions of Jazz“
including e.s.t., Bernard Purdie, Michael Wollny, Nguyên Lê
CD5 „Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic“
including Iiro Rantala, Leszek Możdżer, Vincent Peirani & Wolfgang Haffner
All music produced by Siggi Loch
CD1 „The Beginning“
including Sidney Bechet, Dave Brubeck, Klaus Doldinger & George Gruntz
CD2 „Blues & Rock“
including John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, Jerry Lee Lewis & Spencer Davis Group
CD3 „Crossing Borders“
including Al Di Meola, Gerardo Nuñez, Bugge Wesseltoft, Larry Coryell & Joachim Kühn
CD4 „Visions of Jazz“
including e.s.t., Bernard Purdie, Michael Wollny, Nguyên Lê
CD5 „Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic“
including Iiro Rantala, Leszek Możdżer, Vincent Peirani & Wolfgang Haffner
All music produced by Siggi Loch
Blues, Rock 'n' Roll, and all that Jazz: a musical autobiography through a vibrant, passionate producer's life for Siggi Loch's 75th birthday. Limited edition!
Format: | 5-CD |
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Siggi Loch
Siggi Loch holds an exceptional position in the European
music landscape:
With a career spanning 60 years and still active, he is one
of the most experienced music managers and producers in the industry.
In his mid-twenties, he became the youngest head of a record
company, Liberty/United Artists in Munich, where he discovered artists like
Katja Ebstein, Amon Düül II, and CAN. At the age of 30, he was appointed as the
founding managing director of WEA Music, the German branch of the world's
largest music conglomerate, Warner Communication.
However, his lifelong love was jazz, and he aspired to
promote this music with his own label. He eventually achieved this goal, albeit
through some detours.
While he discovered and produced saxophonist Klaus Doldinger
at the age of 22, he also developed an appreciation for the emerging
"Beat" movement and produced the first recordings at the legendary
Hamburger "Star Club" with acts like "Searchers,"
"Rattles," and Jerry Lee Lewis.
As the WEA Chief, he discovered and nurtured international
stars like Al Jarreau and Helen Schneider, as well as some of the most
successful talents in the young German pop scene, including Jürgen Drews,
Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Peter Schilling, Joachim Witt, Heinz-Rudolf Kunze,
and Ideal. As a corporate manager, he eventually rose to become the President
of WEA Europe INC.
At the height of his success in the pop music business, he
ended that phase of his career to pursue his lifelong dream of running his
independent jazz label, ACT.
Since 1992, ACT has been recognized as one of the most
important labels of its kind worldwide, with a focus on jazz and jazz-related
music, especially from Germany and Europe. The careers of artists such as Nils
Landgren, Esbjörn Svensson, Michael Wollny, Wolfgang Haffner, Viktoria Tolstoy,
Vincent Peirani, Emile Parisien, Youn Sun Nah, Lars Danielsson, Nguyên Lê, and
many others are closely tied to ACT and Siggi Loch.
The London TIMES recently summed it up: "Since 1992,
the German label ACT has been building its own European union of musicians,
fostering a freedom of movement between nationalities and genres and has given
us an authentic impression of what the continent is about."
ACT productions have received numerous awards, including the
Annual Prize of the German Record Critics, the ECHO Jazz, Victoires du Jazz,
multiple Grammy nominations, and continue to significantly contribute to the
public perception of jazz as one of the most important genre-spanning,
culturally significant, and region-encompassing forms of "world
music."
On the cultural policy front, Siggi Loch served as a
founding board member of the German Phono Academy and as a board member of IFPI
/ Federal Association of the Phonographic Industry.
Since 2012, Siggi Loch has curated "Jazz at Berlin
Philharmonic," one of the most successful and enduring jazz concert series
in the capital.
For his work as a music promoter, Siggi Loch has received
various accolades, including the Federal Cross of Merit, the appointment as
"Knight of the Swedish Order of the North Star 1st Class," the Royal
Norwegian Order of Merit, the Prize of the German Record Critics for Lifetime
Achievement, the WDR Jazz Prize, and the Skoda Jazz Award. ACT also won the
ECHO Audience Award for Label of the Year four times in a row.
€26.95*
Siggi Loch
€26.95*