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I am quite puzzled by Enja. First, it seems that there are two different record companies by that name, both out of Germany. Second, it seems that while many titles are available in Germany, they are not in North America. Am I right in thinking that there is no US distributor? Is there a good way to get Enja CDs? I am particularly interested in Aki Takase CDs on Enja-Weber.

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  Bol said:

I am quite puzzled by Enja. First, it seems that there are two different record companies by that name, both out of Germany. Second, it seems that while many titles are available in Germany, they are not in North America. Am I right in thinking that there is no US distributor? Is there a good way to get Enja CDs? I am particularly interested in Aki Takase CDs on Enja-Weber.

From enjarecords.com:

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In early 1986 Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber decided to separate and to work individually from now on. Differing views on work intensity, on "where to take the label" were solved this way. M. W. got even more involved with New York's jazz and produced an average of 30 albums annually on ENJA (Kenny Barron, Ray Anderson, Mitch Watkins, Wayne Krantz, Gary Thomas, Leni Stern, McCoy Tyner, Arthur Blythe, Abdullah Ibrahim, Elvin Jones, Abraham Burton, Maria Schneider Orchestra, Ingrid Jensen, Dan Wall, Lee Konitz, Kevin Mahogany et.al.).

I believe they basically split part of the catalog and each continue to sell their portion. Winckelmann's seems to be the more active of the two (?)

Horst Weber Enja site

Matthias Winckelmann Enja site

Appears you can purchase titles from the Winckelmann site, but not the Weber site at the moment.

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  Aggie87 said:

I believe they basically split part of the catalog and each continue to sell their portion.

Well, they split the whole catalog that existed at the time, and continue the same numbering system, but without overlaps, somehow - and they both have individual distribution arrangements.

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From the TUTU records homepage:

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Tutu is an ambitious minor jazz label that was founded by Horst Weber, Enja Records and Peter Wiessmueller in 1988. Our most significant artists are: Mal Waldron, Jim Pepper, Hamiet Bluiett, Ed Schuller, Gunther Klatt, Nicolas Simion, Monty Waters, Gunther Klatt, Dewey Redman, Marty Cook, Ku-umba Frank Lacy, John Scofield, Bill Bickford, Albert Mangelsdorff, Aki Takase, Kenny Garrett, Danny Richmond, Nomakosazana, Geoff Warren, Enver Izmailov, Uli Lenz, Badal Roy, Paul Motian and many others.

They both have their sublabels for "beyond" styles:

Weber has TUTU

Winckelmann has TipToe, 19_enja, Blues Beacon, and ENJA NOVA.

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Thanks for the info. So, does anyone know whether there is a convenient way of getting Enja-Weber CDs in the US? I guess I could order using Amazon.de, but would like to avoid that route since shipping is quite expensive.

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  Chuck Nessa said:

Didn't Aggie say you could buy directly from MW? Don't know his shipping charges, but check it out.

You can order from Winkelmann, but not from Weber. And the CDs I want are from Weber.

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  Bol said:

  Chuck Nessa said:

Didn't Aggie say you could buy directly from MW? Don't know his shipping charges, but check it out.

You can order from Winkelmann, but not from Weber. And the CDs I want are from Weber.

Send a nasty email to Horst.

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  Aggie87 said:

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From enjarecords.com:

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In early 1986 Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber decided to separate and to work individually from now on. Differing views on work intensity, on "where to take the label" were solved this way. M. W. got even more involved with New York's jazz and produced an average of 30 albums annually on ENJA (Kenny Barron, Ray Anderson, Mitch Watkins, Wayne Krantz, Gary Thomas, Leni Stern, McCoy Tyner, Arthur Blythe, Abdullah Ibrahim, Elvin Jones, Abraham Burton, Maria Schneider Orchestra, Ingrid Jensen, Dan Wall, Lee Konitz, Kevin Mahogany et.al.).

I am aware the above quote's from Winckelmann's site, but still there's an addition to me made: with discs by Gianluigi Trovesi, Michel Godard, Gabriele Mirabassi, Pino Minafra, Jean-Louis Matinier, and the great 2CD La Banda set and a few others, Enja Winckelmann has also done a great job in documenting some of the more interesting folsky/mediterranean music.

Funny also to note that Enja Weber has done Godard discs, too (two duo discs with Dave Bargeron) and that both Weber and Winckelmann did record Charlie Mariano ("Deep in a Dream" on Winckelmann's label is terrific, Sangrey started a thread about it some time ago).

I seem to remember that the US outfit Sunnyside did release some Enja discs in the US, no?

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