Horst Weber (jazz producer)

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Horst Weber (born February 21, 1934 in Aachen ; † February 24, 2012 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German jazz producer and co-founder of the jazz label enja .

Weber learned the tailoring trade . At first he worked as a draftsman and fashion designer , among other things as a freelancer for the German Fashion Institute, for which he also traveled to Japan during the 1960s; in the process he made contacts with the Japanese jazz scene . He was also active as a concert organizer in the Aachen region before moving to Munich in the late 1960s. In 1971 he founded the record label enja there together with Matthias Winckelmann ; their first album was Black Glory , a recording by pianist Mal Waldron from the Munich jazz club Domicile . Later albums fromAlbert Mangelsdorff , Terumasa Hino , Masahiko Sato , Chet Baker , Charles Mingus or Abdullah Ibrahim . Weber wrote a biography about Charles Mingus with Gerd Filtgen. In 1986 he and Winckelmann separated because they had too different ideas about the work intensity and the further direction of the productions, and founded independent labels under the old umbrella brand. They divided up the joint catalog of 350 albums at the time by dicing who would be allowed to publish which artists on their Enja label in the future. Weber initially continued to rely on productions from Japan and Munich. In the early 2000s, Weber handed over the management of his label to Werner Aldinger and withdrew from ongoing business.

Fonts

  • Horst Weber, Gerd Filtgen Charles Mingus: his life, his music, his records. Oreos 1984

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Godehard Lutz Matthias Winckelmann and 40 years of Enja Records. Jazz Podium 2/2012: 22
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz producer and label operator
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2012
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen