Record Label

Enja Records

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 [r=5299416]