V.A. - Siggi Loch: A Life In The Spirit Of Jazz (2015)

Blues, Rock‘n’Roll and all that Jazz: a musical autobiography that represents a fascinating cross-section from the glittering career and from the passionate life of producer Siggi Loch - for his 75th birthday.
Producer and ACT label boss Siggi Loch turns 75 on August 6th this year and to celebrate his birthday ACT are releasing a collection of music that Siggi had the pleasure of producing over the last 50-plus years, his own personal Best of… . 'Life in the Spirit of Jazz - Siggi Loch 75' represents a fascinating cross-section from the glittering career and from the passionate life of a man who has achieved legendary status in music. Right at the start of his career, he had the dream of running his own jazz label, and he has now fulfilled that dream. ACT has been voted label of the year four times in a row at the German ECHO awards, and in 2015 alone, its artists and releases garnered eight ECHOs: the label has achieved international renown. However this CD collection is a snapshot of where things are, a provisional taking of stock to mark and to celebrate Siggi Loch's 75th birthday. And what does the future hold for him? Loch answers that question unambiguously, and with Dizzy Gillespie's immortal formula: 'I will bop until I drop!' Siggi Loch has a breadth of experience in the music sector that very few can match. From the 1960s onwards, those formative days for the modern record industry, his career path rapidly became a giddying ascent. From a position as sales rep for EMI, to label manager at Philips, on to head of Warner Europe, Loch owed this meteoric rise to his inexhaustible enthusiasm, combined with an ability to spot the talent and to predict the trends in pop music. He had been at Warner eighteen years when his boss and mentor Nesuhi Ertegün, the legendary Atlantic Jazz producer, stood down as WEA chairman. Loch, who now knew the music business inside-out, took his cue to abandon a lucrative managerial position, and finally to turn the dream of his youth into a reality. In 1992 ACT was born as a jazz label. Contents: CD 1 : The Beginning CD 2 : Blues & Rock CD 3 : Crossing Borders CD 4 : Visions of Jazz CD 5 : Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic

TRACKLIST
CD 1
1. Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Feetwarmers - Indian Summer [ 2:07]
2. Klaus Doldinger Quartet - Blues For George [ 6:09]
3. George Gruntz - Danza, Danza, Fanciulla Gentile [ 4:15]
4. Klaus Doldinger Quartet & Attila Zoller - Viva Brasilia [ 3:35]
5. Klaus Weiss Trio - Subo [ 3:48]
6. Volker Kriegel Trio - Morandi [ 3:28]
7. Attila Zoller Quartet With Don Friedman - Ictus [ 6:01]
8. Johnny Griffin Quartet - Summertime [ 5:51]
9. Paul Nero - Comin' Home Baby [ 2:35]
10.Jean-Luc Ponty/Carmell Jones/Henry Texier - With A Little Help From My Friends [ 2:52]
11.Larry Coryell & Philip Catherine - Snowshadows [ 3:30]
12.Dave Brubeck Quartet & Gerry Mulligan - Unfinished Woman [ 7:25]
13.Klaus Doldinger's Passport With Les McCann - Compared To What? [ 4:53]
14.Nils Landgren Funk Unit - You Dig [ 5:15]

CD 2
1. John Lee Hooker - Della Mae [ 3:14]
2. Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon - John Henry [ 2:47]
3. Muddy Waters - In The City [ 3:44]
4. Buddy Guy - First Time I Met The Blues [ 4:30]
5. Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog [ 3:01]
6. The Star Combo With Tony Sheridan - Skinny-Minny [ 3:06]
7. Jerry Lee Lewis - I Got A Woman Mean As She Can Be [ 3:46]
8. The Rattles - Shame, Shame, Shame [ 2:34]
9. Krokodil With Hardy Hepp - Morning Dew [ 4:38]
10.The Remo Four With Tony Ashton - Sing Hallelujah [ 3:40]
11.Spencer Davis Group With Stevie Winwood - Stevie's Groove [ 2:44]
12.The Motherhood - I Feel Free [ 4:05]
13.Olaf Kuebler - Nights In White Satin [ 5:11]
14.Olaf Kuebler - It's Only Rock 'n Roll [ 2:00]

CD 3
1. George Gruntz - Lachrimae Antiquae Pavan [ 5:22]
2. Viktoria Tolstoy/Ale Moeller - Grandma's Song [ 4:10]
3. Hardy Hepp/Joe Farrell/David Spinoza/George Gruntz - Tatanka Yotanka [ 6:11]
4. Diego Vargas - Por Fiesta [ 2:33]
5. Michael Brecker/Al Di Meola/Vince Mendoza/WDR Big Band - Tangos [ 7:10]
6. Gerardo Nunez/Chano Dominguez/Michael Brecker - Calima [ 4:45]
7. Michael Brecker/Gerardo Nunez - Blues For Pablo [ 6:10]
8. Ulf Wakenius/Lars Danielsson/Morten Lund - Dancing [ 4:01]
9. Bugge Wesseltoft & Henning Kraggerud - Blamann [ 4:52]
10.Christof Lauer & Jens Thomas With Sidsel Endresen - Shadows In The Rain [ 3:29]
11.Jens Thomas & Verneri Pohjola - Night Prowler [ 4:03]
12.Joachim Kuehn/Douglas Boyd/Django Bates/Michael Gibbs - Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair [ 4:41]
13.Michael Riessler & Singer Pur - Nasce La Pena Mia [ 3:48]
14.Danilo Rea & Flavio Boltro - Lasciatemi Morire [ 3:00]

CD 4
1. Bugge Wesseltoft - Greensleeves (What Child Is This) [ 3:43]
2. Jasper Van't Hof/Wayne Krantz - Before Birth [ 4:45]
3. Nils Landgren & Esbjorn Svensson - Hopsi [ 2:54]
4. e.s.t. Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Dodge The Dodo [ 5:07]
5. Jack DeJohnette & Bernard Purdie - New Orleans Strutt [ 3:24]
6. Eberhard Weber/Albert Mangelsdorff/Wolfgang Dauner - Und So Weiter, And So On [ 6:29]
7. Nils Landgren & Michael Wollny - Fragile [ 6:49]
8. Heinz Sauer & Michael Wollny - Welcome To What You Hear [ 2:00]
9. Adam Baldych & The Baltic Gang With Marius Neset - K8 [ 6:36]
10.Ida Sand - The Brutal Truth [ 3:59]
11.Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr - You Are A Friend Of Mine [ 5:05]
12.Nguyen Le/Mark Johnson/Peter Erskine - Blue Monkey [ 6:10]
13.Kalle Kalima Trio - Santy Anno [ 5:10]
14.Michael Wollny & Marius Neset - Polygon [ 6:34]
15.Iiro Rantala - Happy Xmas, War Is Over [ 5:57]

CD 5
1. Iiro Rantala & Michael Wollny - Tears For Esbjorn [ 6:54]
2. Nils Landgren & Johan Norberg - Get Here (If You Can) [ 5:23]
3. Michael Wollny Trio - Nacht [ 4:47]
4. Leszek Mozdzer Trio/Atom String Quartet - Hunchback Porn Angel [ 3:59]
5. Solveig Slettahjell/In The Country/Knut Reiersrud - Nobody's Fault But Mine [ 5:30]
6. Chano Dominguez & Marius Neset - Blues For Pablo [ 8:24]
7. Wolfgang Haffner/Thomas Quasthoff - My Funny Valentine [ 6:23]
8. Vincent Peirani & Emile Parisien - 3 Temps Pour Michel'p [ 5:16]
9. Hugo Siegmeth/Modern String Quartet - Indian Summer [ 4:33]