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.

Discography

Main series

• 9902 2 Mal Waldron / Steve Lacy: One-Upmanship / Moods

• 9904 2 Bob Degen: Sequoia Song / Chartreuse

• 9906 2 Clark Terry / Red Mitchell: To Duke & Basie / When I'm Singing

• 9908 2 Hal Galper: Now Hear This / Ivory Forest

• 9910 2 Abdullah Ibrahim: Banyana – Children of Africa / Desert Flowers

• 9912 2 Benny Bailey: Islands / Upper Manhattan Jazz Society

• 9914 2 Franco Ambrosetti: Heart Bop / Close Encounter

• 9916 2 David Friedman: Future Passed / Of the Wind's Eye

• 9918 2 John Stubblefield: Bushman Song / Countin' on the Blues

• 9920 2 Attila Zoller: Cream Bells / Memories of Pannonica

• 9922 2 Kenny Barron: What If? / Live at Fat Tuesdays

• 9924 2 Ray Anderson/Slickaphonics: Wow Bag / Modern Life

• 9926 2 Conexion Latina: Calorcito / Un Poco Loco

• 9928 2 Jerry Gonzalez & Forth Apache Band The River Is Deep / Obatala

• 9930 2 Leni Stern: Secrets / Closer to the Light

• 9932 2 Ed Blackwell: What It Is / What It Be Like

Other series

• blu-1000 2 Robert Pete Williams: Sugarfarm

• blu-1001 2 Thomas Shaw: Do Lord Remember Me

• blu-1002 2 Little Brother Montgomery: Bajez Copper Station

• blu-1003 2 Bukka White: Baton Rouge Mosby Street

• blu-1004 2 Eddie Taylor: Stormy Monday

• blu-1005 2 Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir: Highway to Heaven

• blu-1006 2 Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir: Jubilation Ii

• blu-1007 2 Christian Willisohn: Boogie Woogie & Blues

• blu-1008 2 Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir Glory Train

• blu-1009 2 Stephen Barry Blues Band: Blues Under a Full Moon

• blu-1010 2 Louisiana Red & Carey Bell Live At 55

• blu-1011 2 Lillian Bouté & Christian Willisohn: Lipstick Traces

• blu-1012 2 Bryan Lee Jump Street Five

• blu-1013 2 Nick Woodland: Big Heart

• blu-1014 2 Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir A Cappella

• blu-1015 2 Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir Anniversary in Gospel

• blu-1016 2 Yvonne Jackson W. Maceo Parker: I'm Trouble

• blu-1017 2 Lillian Boutté: The Gospel Book

• blu-1018 2 Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir: Joy to the World

• blu-1019 2 Christian Willisohn: Blues News

• blu-1020 2 Lillian Boutté: The Jazz Book

• blu-1021 2 Bryan Lee: Memphis Bound

• blu-1022 2 Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir Looking Back (Jubilation Vi)

• blu-1024 2 Al Jones Blues Band: Watch This!

• blu-1025 2 Christian Willisohn Trio: Blues on the World

• blu-1026 2 Christian Willisohn New Band: Heart Broken Man

• blu-1027 2 Nick Woodland Quartet Live Fireworks

• blu-1028 2 Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir Hamba Ekhaya

• blu-1029 2 Bryan Lee Live at the Old Absinthe House Bar – Friday Night

• blu-1031 2 Big Allanbik Batuque Y Blues

• blu-1032 2 Bryan Lee Live at the Old Absinthe House Bar – Saturday Night

• blu-1033 2 Marty Hall: Who's Been Talkin'?

• blu-1035 2 Bryan Lee: Crawfish Lady

• blu-1036 2 Nick Woodland: The Current That Flows

• blu-1037 2 Nick Woodland Cult Factory Vol. 1 (Authentic Heads)

• m M P-1 70886 2 Rabih Abou-Khalil: Between Dusk and Dawn

• m M P-1 70889 2 Rabih Abou-Khalil: Bukra

• m M P-1 70890 2 Rabih Abou-Khalil: Roots and Sprouts

• r27-9153 2 Harvie Swartz: In a Different Light

• r27-9154 2 Bebop & Beyond W. Joe Henderson Plays Thelonious Monk

• r27-9163 2 Tim Eyermann & East Coast Off. Outside Inside

• r27-9167 2 David Becker: In Motion

• r27-9169 2 Uncle Festive The Paper & The Dog

• r27-9170 2 Dizzy Gillespie / Bebop & Beyond Plays Dizzy Gillespie

• r27-9171 2 Mark Egan: Beyond Words

• r27-9180 2 Scott Henderson /tribal Tech Illicit*tip-888801 2 Blue Box Captured Dance Floor

• tip-888802 2 Kevin Bruce Harris: And They Walked Among People

• tip-888803 2 Vladimir Estragon / Three Quarks For Muster Mark

• tip-888804 2 Intergalactic Maiden Ballet Square Dance

• tip-888805 2 Mike Westbrook: Off Abbey Road

• tip-888806 2 Michael Gregory: The Way We Used to Do

• tip-888807 2 Kevin Bruce Harris: Folk Songs / Folk Tales

• tip-888808 2 Greetje Bijma: Tales of a Voice

• tip-888809 2 Wolfgang Schmid / Kick, B. Cobham No Filters

• tip-888810 2 Abdullah Lbrahim (Dollar Brand): Mantra Mode

• tip-888811 2 Mike Clark / Paul Jackson: The Funk Stops Here

• tip-888812 2 Abdullah Lbrahim (Dollar Brand): Water from an Ancient Well

• tip-888813 2 Blue Box Time We Sign

• tip-888814 2 Mitch Watkins: Strings With Wings

• tip-888815 2 Abdullah Lbrahim (Dollar Brand): No Fear No Die

• tip-888816 2 Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand): Knysna Blue

• tip-888817 2 Intergalactic Maidenballet Gulf

• tip-888818 2 Blue Box "10"

• tip-888819 2 Okay Temiz: Magnet Dance

• tip-888820 2 Abdullah Ibrahim: Yarona

• tip-888821 2 Subruto Roy Chowdhury Bageshree

• tip-888822 2 Raiz De Pedra With Egberto Gismonti Diario De Bordo

• tip-888823 2 Ferenc Snétberger The Budapest Concert

• tip-888824 2 Paradox Paradox

• tip-888825 2 Harald Haerter & Dewey Redman Mostly Live

• tip-888826 2 Abdullah Ibrahim: Cape Town Flowers

• tip-888827 2 Rikhy Ray: Mangalam

• tip-888831 2 Greenfish: Perfume Light, Singing Blue

• tip-888832 2 Abdullah Ibrahim: African Suite

• tip-888833 2 Paradox The Rist Second

• tip-888834 2 Ferenc Snétberger: Obsession

• tip-888835 2 Mahmoud Turkmani Nuqta

• tip-888836 2 Abdullah Ibrahim: Cape Town Revisited

• tip-888838 2 Lew Soloff: Rainbow Mountain

• tip-888839-2 Götz Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble

• tip-888340-2 Abdullah Ibrahim: Ekapa Lodumo

• tip-888841-2 Gilad Athmon & Oriental House Ensemble: Nostalgico

• tip-888843-2 The World Quintet

• tip-888845-2 Abdullah Ibrahim: African Magic

• tip-888846-2 Nunu!: Con Alma

• tip-888848-2 Gilad Atzmon Musik

• tip-888849-2 Gilad Atzmon & Orient House Ensemble: Refuge

• tip-888850-2 Gilad Atzmon: In Loving Memory of America Rising Sun Collection

• rsc-0001 2 John Lee Hooker

• rsc-0002 2 Big Mama Thornton

• rsc-0003 2 Taj Mahal

• rsc-0004 2 Nina Simone

• rsc-0005 2 Archie Shepp

• rsc-0006 2 Louisiana Red

• rsc-0007 2 Esther Phillips

• rsc-0008 2 Johnny "Big Moose" Walker

• rsc-0009 2 Lightnin' Hopkins

• rsc-0010 2 Chet Baker

• rsc-0011 2 Louisiana Red A.o.yellowbird

• yeb-7707 2 Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog Party Intellectuals

• yeb-7710 2 Susi Hyldgaard: It's Love We Need

• yeb-7711 2 Roy Nathanson: Sotto Voce /Subway Moon

References