Siggi Loch - A Life in the Spirit of Jazz

Music produced and compiled by Siggi Loch with Sidney Bechet, Dave Brubeck, Klaus Doldinger, Johnny Griffin, Larry Coryell, Nils Landgren, Esbjörn Svensson, Joachim Kühn, Michael Wollny, Iiro Rantala. With 60 years in the music business, music manager and producer Siggi Loch has shaped the industry from its beginnings until today, as the youngest head of a major label, the WEA, now Warner Music Europe, and as the oldest founder of an independent jazz label, ACT. And it is the love of jazz that runs like a thread through his life. In keeping with Siggi Loch’s 80th birthday, ‘A Life in the Spirit of Jazz’ tells this love story.

CD1 Sidney Bechet - Summertime Klaus Doldinger Quartett + Afro Cuban - Recado Bossa Nova George Gruntz / Jazz goes Baroque - The Earl Of Salisbury Attila Zoller Quartet - Explorations Lyrik & Jazz / Gert Westphal / Attila Zoller - Hedwigs Lied Volker Kriegel Quartet - Morandi Johnny Griffin Quartet - Little Man You’ve Had A Busy Day Larry Coryell & Philip Catherine - Father Christmas Dave Brubeck Quartet meets Gerry Mulligan - Unfinished Woman The Remo Four - Brother Where Are You? John Lee Hooker / American Folk Blues Festival - Della Mae Spencer Davis Group / Steve Winwood - Stevie’s Groove The Motherhood - Back In The Dark Nils Landgren Funk Unit - You Dig (live in Montreux)

CD2 Jasper van’t Hof / Wayne Krantz - Before Birth Europeana / Kühn / Mangelsdorff / Lauer - Three Angels Jorge Pardo / Carles Benavent / Los Jovenes Flamencos - La Cigarras (previously unreleased) Nils Landgren & Esbjörn Svensson - Song From The Valley Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Dodge The Dodo (live in Montreux) Jazzpaña II / Renaud Garcia-Fons / Michael Brecker - Latido Loco Heinz Sauer & Michael Wollny - Nothing Compares 2 U Michael Wollny Trio - Little Person Bugge Wesseltoft & Henning Kraggerud - Improvisation Over La Folia Vincent Peirani & Emile Parisien - 3 Temps pour Michel P (live in Berlin) Larry Coryell & Philip Catherine - Miss Julie (live in Berlin / previously unreleased) 4WD / Landgren / Wollny / Danielsson / Haffner - Polygon Ulf Wakenius / Lars Danielsson / Magnus Öström - A Taste Of Honey Iiro Rantala - Tears For Esbjörn