Various Artists - Magic Moments 19 [CD]

Format: CD 
Catalogue No.: ACT8052-2
Barcode: 0614427805225
Release Date: 16 Oct 2026
Genre: Jazz

 For nearly three decades, ‘Magic Moments’ has been ACT’s love letter to the music it makes possible - a yearly snapshot, hand-picked by label founder Siggi Loch, of where jazz stands right now.
 Volume 19 is no exception: 17 tracks that move from trio fire to orchestral grandeur, from Tehran to Tunis to Stockholm, proving that the ACT family speaks in many voices but one language. 
 Shalosh open with the coiled intensity of ‘Hysteria’, while Émile Parisien, Yaron Herman, Prabhu Edouard and Linda May Han Oh trade rhythmic sparks on ‘Badhra’.
 Rising talents such as Jakob Manz and Emma Rawicz sit comfortably alongside icons like Dhafer Youssef, Joachim Kühn and Nils Landgren, the latter joined here by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra for a widescreen ‘Moonshadow’.
 Genre lines blur further with Johanna Summer and Igor Levit’s classical-jazz dialogue on ‘Andantino de Clara’, Mammal Hands’ ‘Window to Your World’ and Mahan Mirarab and Kian Soltani’s ‘Choopan 42’.
 The result is less a sampler than a guided listening session, a map of a label always chasing the unexpected.
 CD with four-page digipack, including a catalogue of ACT 2026 releases.

Tracklisting
Shalosh - Hysteria
Emile Parisien, Yaron Herman, Prabhu Edouard, Linda May Han Oh - Badhra
Jakob Manz - Eyes of Crystals
Ida Sand - Salt & Sugar
iiro Rantala, Kaisa Mäensivu, Morten Lund - Fais Dodo, Colas Mon P’tit Frère
Theo Croker & Sullivan Fortner - A Prayer for Peace
Mammal Hands - Window to Your World
Robinson Khoury - Alaoui Club
Dhafer Youssef - Eyeblink and Eternity, Pt. 1
Lars Danielsson, Magnus Öström, Grégory Privat, John Parricelli - Echomyr
Jakob Manz, Johanna Summer, Nils Kugelmann, Emma Rawicz - Unexpected Love
Joel Lyssarides - Life in Between
Nils Landgren with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Moonshadow
Bernd Lhotzky, Émile Parisien, Frédéric Couderc, Henning Sieverts, Eric Schaefer - Pasquini’s Slow Dra
Johanna Summer, Igor Levit - Andantino de Clara Mahan Mirarab, Kian Soltani - Choopan 42
Joachim Kühn - Slick Stuff