ACT Records: 'It doesn't happen like this in the corporate world'

When its star artist Esbjörn Svensson died in a scuba accident, ACT Records almost called it a day. Instead, it's just reached its 20th anniversary on top of the jazz worldIf Stax, Motown or Sun Records figure in pop iconography as labels almost as famous as the legends they launched, Blue Note, Riverside, Impulse! or ECM are jazz music's equivalents – even if they are less likely to wind up as answers in a pub quiz. In its heyday in the 1950s and 60s, Blue Note was almost as widely admired f...

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