Enja Records is a German jazz record company and label based in Munich which was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971. The label's first release was by Mal Waldron, and early releases included European and Japanese avant-garde artists such as Alexander von Schlippenbach, Terumasa Hino, Albert Mangelsdorff and Yōsuke Yamashita, along with newer American jazz musicians like Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Leroy Jenkins and Eric Dolphy and straight-ahead musicians such as Tommy Flanagan, McCoy Tyner, Chet Baker, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, and Kenny Barron. The label also branched out to release early world music productions from Abdullah Ibrahim, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Mahmoud Turkmani, Gypsy bands, Indonesia's Monica Akihary, and Turkish saz virtuoso Taner Akyol.
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Artists on Enja Records
Chet Baker
1929–1988 · American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1929-1988)
Cecil Taylor
1929–2018 · American jazz pianist and poet (1929–2018)
Freddie Hubbard
1938–2008 · American jazz trumpeter (1938–2008)
Gil Evans
1912–1988 · American composer, arranger, bandleader, and pianist…
Archie Shepp
b. 1937 · American jazz musician
McCoy Tyner
1938–2020 · American jazz pianist (1938–2020)
Abbey Lincoln
1930–2010 · American singer (1930–2010)
Abdullah Ibrahim
1934–2026 · South African pianist and composer (1934–2026)
Elvin Jones
1927–2004 · American jazz drummer (1927–2004)
Art Farmer
1928–1999 · American jazz trumpeter (1928–1999)
Lee Konitz
1927–2020 · American jazz musician (1927–2020)
Joe Henderson
1937–2001 · American jazz saxophonist (1937–2001)
John Scofield
b. 1951 · American jazz guitarist and composer (born 1951)
Randy Weston
1926–2018 · American jazz pianist (1926–2018)
Tommy Flanagan
1930–2001 · American jazz pianist (1930-2001)
David Murray
b. 1955 · American jazz musician (tenor saxophone and bass clarinet)
Charlie Mariano
1923–2009 · American jazz saxophonist (1923–2009)
Kenny Barron
b. 1943 · American jazz pianist
Woody Shaw
1944–1989 · American musician (1944-1989)
Chris Connor
1927–2009 · American jazz singer (1927–2009)
Albert Mangelsdorff
1928–2005 · German jazz trombonist (1928–2005)
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
1946–2005 · Danish jazz upright bassist (1946–2005)
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
1922–1986 · American saxophonist (1922–1986)
Dave Liebman
b. 1946 · American jazz composer, saxophonist and flautist
Mal Waldron
1925–2002 · American jazz pianist and composer (1925–2002)
Eddie Harris
1934–1996 · American jazz musician (1934–1996)
Enrico Pieranunzi
b. 1949 · Italian jazz musician, classical pianist, composer…
Yōsuke Yamashita
b. 1942 · Japanese jazz pianist, composer and writer
Nat Adderley
1931–2000 · American jazz cornet and trumpet player (1931–2000)
Roland Hanna
1932–2002 · American pianist (1932–2002)
Pepper Adams
1930–1986 · American saxophonist (1930-1986)
Rabih Abou-Khalil
b. 1957 · Lebanese musician
Dhafer Youssef
b. 1967 · Tunisian musician
Duško Gojković
1931–2023 · Serbian musician
Red Mitchell
1927–1992 · American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet…
Hampton Hawes
1928–1977 · American jazz pianist (1928–1977)
Junior Mance
1928–2021 · American musician (1928–2021)
George Gruntz
1932–2013 · Swiss pianist (1932-2013)
Dewey Redman
1931–2006 · American saxophonist (1931–2006)
Aldo Romano
b. 1941 · French-Italian jazz drummer (1941-)
Arthur Blythe
1940–2017 · American musician (1940–2017)
George Adams
1940–1992 · American jazz musician (1940-1992)
Sunny Murray
1937–2017 · American jazz drummer (1936–2017)
Ray Anderson
b. 1952 · American jazz trombonist
Aki Takase
b. 1948 · Japanese musician
Renaud Garcia-Fons
b. 1962 · French upright-bassist and composer
Herb Geller
1928–2013 · American saxophonist (1928–2013)
Benny Bailey
1924–2005 · American jazz trumpeter (1925–2005)
Art Taylor
1929–1995 · American jazz drummer (1929-1995)
Markus Stockhausen
b. 1957 · German trumpeter, music producer and composer (jazz…
Jerry Bergonzi
b. 1947 · American jazz musician
Bobby Previte
b. 1951 · American drummer
Charlie Rouse
1924–1988 · American musician (1924–1988)
Horace Parlan
1931–2017 · (1931-2017) American-Danish jazz pianist
Franco Ambrosetti
b. 1941 · Swiss musician
Cecil McBee
b. 1935 · American bassist
Kevin Mahogany
1958–2017 · American jazz singer (1958–2017)
Rez Abbasi
b. 1965 · American fusion and jazz guitarist, music producer, and…
Bennie Wallace
b. 1946 · American saxophonist
Attila Zoller
1927–1998 · Hungarian Jazz guitarist (1927-1998)
Mike Nock
b. 1940 · New Zealand born musician residing in Australia
Roberto Fonseca
b. 1975 · Cuban musician
Joe Albany
1924–1988 · American pianist (1924–1988)
Charles Tolliver
b. 1942 · American jazz trumpeter and composer
Michael Formanek
b. 1958 · American jazz bassist
Prince Lasha
1929–2008 · American jazz musician (1929–2008)
Antonio Faraò
b. 1965 · Italian musician
Dave Samuels
1948–2019 · American musician (1948–2019)
Ingrid Jensen
b. 1966 · Canadian jazz trumpet player
Jerry Gonzalez
1949–2018 · American musician (1949–2018)
Roy Brooks
1938–2005 · American drummer (1938–2005)
Marvin Peterson
b. 1948 · American jazz trumpeter and composer
Ed Blackwell
1929–1992 · American jazz drummer (1929–1992)
Karl Berger
1935–2023 · German jazz vibraphonist, pianist and composer (1935–2023)
Hal Galper
1938–2025 · American pianist
Gary Thomas
b. 1960 · American musician
Nitai Hershkovits
b. 1988 · Israeli jazz musician
Walter Norris
1931–2011 · American pianist (1931-2011)
Tony Reedus
1959–2008 · American musician (1959–2008)
Victor Lewis
b. 1950 · American jazz drummer
Michael Gregory Jackson
b. 1953 · American jazz, blues and rock musician (born 1953)
Ronald Muldrow
1949–2007 · American jazz musician (1949–2007)
Label profile
German label.
Label Code: LC 3126 / LC 03126.
Enja Records was founded in July 1971 in Munich by jazz enthusiasts and . In 1986, the founders decided to work individually forming separate/autonomous companies and for several decades there were two Enja Records labels: and . Weber died in 2012 and, around this time, the two catalogs of ENJA reunited. Whereas the former ENJA Horst Weber part and the new label are managed by . Some time before Matthias Winckelmann died in 2022, Werner Aldinger began to administer ENJA Records M. Winckelmann as well.
There is also the ENJA Publishing department with “enja European New Jazz Musikverlagsgesellschaft mbH".
Some releases have a code with prefix DEA followed by 9 digits (e.g. DEA590006200). These represent a range of ISRC codes assigned to the individual tracks on the release, with the trailing zeroes being placeholders for the track numbers (e.g. DEA590006201, DEA590006202, ...). These can be added to BAOI as ISRC, as printed on the release. Example: the album 5299416
Profile from Discogs (CC0)