Matthias Winckelmann

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Matthias Winckelmann (* 1941 in Berlin ) is a German jazz producer and co-founder of the jazz label enja .

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Winkelmann, who grew up in Frankfurt am Main , learned to trumpet as a teenager and was enthusiastic about jazz music. He studied economics and sociology in Munich and was initially interested in working as a development worker . In 1971 he founded the record label enja together with Horst Weber . Their first album was Black Glory , a recording by pianist Mal Waldron from the Munich jazz club Domicile , which Winckelmann personally sold from his car at German record stores. He later produced albums by Attila Zoller , George Gruntz , Walter Norris , Chet Baker , Bennie Wallace , Abbey Lincoln and Abdullah Ibrahim , who inspired Winckelmann for world jazz . In 1986 he and Weber separated and founded independent labels under the old umbrella brand. They shared the common catalog by diceing who would be allowed to publish which artists on their Enja label in the future. Winckelmann increasingly relied on European and oriental-influenced jazz and produced musicians such as Rabih Abou-Khalil , Dhafer Youssef , Renaud Garcia-Fons , Gianluigi Trovesi or Daniel Schnyder . He also founded several sub-labels such as Blues Beacon , Tiptoe and Marsyas .

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  1. a b K. Härtel 40 years of Enja. Jazzthetik 11/12 2011: 60f.