Some choice cuts here from the ACT vaults, and a reminder of the wide range of jazz produced by this remarkable independent jazz label celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Appropriately 20 performances have been selected, all first rate, such as Wolfgang Haffner's ‘Shapes’,” Nguyên Lê’s ‘Idoma’, Lars Danielsson and Leszek Mozdzer's ‘Tarantella’, Viktoria Tolstoy's ‘Love is Real’, Michael Wollny and [em]’s ‘Trauermarsch’, and EST's ‘From Gagarin's Point of View’. They are a refl ection of producer Siggi Loch's big-eared approach to jazz and his conviction that today great jazz can come from anywhere in the world, be it Vietnam, Israel, Italy, Poland, Norway, Sweden, France, Denmark, Germany and of course the USA, all represented here in this celebratory anthology.