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When ACT founder Siggi Loch invited journalists over for a special luncheon during the 1992 Montreux Jazz Festival to celebrate the start of his new label, I didn’t expect this particular label to be where it is, 25 years later. Or that it still would be in existence even. I also remember that a young…
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