The newest member of the ACT family of artists is unique in many ways. On the one hand, it is the most versatile: The Jazzrausch Bigband counts more than 40 musicians among its regular members. The next unique selling point is that the ensemble's average of 120 concerts a year would be impossible to master otherwise. Within one year the ensemble performed at Lincoln Center in New York, the JZ Festival Shanghai, the Safaricom International Jazz Festival in Nairobi, the Ural Music Night in Yekaterinburg and the SXSW Music Festival in Austin - probably no other jazz orchestra in the world is so busy, in demand and successful at the moment. And no other orchestra reaches an audience as young as this one, previously rather distant from jazz. This in turn is due to the revolutionary new sound and repertoire ...