IF Music Presents You Need This: An Introduction To Enja Records 4LP

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Coming May 20, 2022 pre-order your copy today! Orders with both pre-order and in stock items will have all in stock items shipped immediately!

Obscure Jazz Gems, Carefully Curated & Remastered!
Part Of IF Music's "An Introduction To..." Series!

Part of IF Music founder Jean-Claude's ever expanding 'YOU NEED THIS!' series of compilation albums, the London record shop impresario and DJ takes us on another scintillating musical journey, this time exploring the catalogue of German jazz imprint Enja Records.

Like Jean-Claude's 'Journey Into Deep Jazz' series on BBE Music and his 2017 exploration of Black Saint & Soul Note Records before it, IF Music Presents You Need This: An Introduction To Enja Records provides another impeccably curated and programmed selection of music, assembled by simply one of the most knowledgeable and passionate vinyl specialists in the business.

Featuring performances by John Stubblefield, Bobby Hutcherson, Cecil McBee and Pharoah Sanders collaborator Marvin Hannibal Peterson, this collection provides a great jumping-off point for Enja's rich and diverse back catalogue.

Founded in 1971 by Munich natives and jazz obsessives Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber, in its heyday Enja released albums by Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Tommy Flanagan and John Scofield, as well as Kenny Barron, Chet Baker, Abbey Lincoln, Bea Benjamin, Freddie Hubbard, to name but a few.

Having firmly established itself as "a bastion of all things deep in jazz" as Jean-Claude neatly sums up, Enja also went on to issue early world music projects from Abdullah Ibrahim, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Mahmoud Turkmani and many others, and it remains active to this day.

"There is no doubt that to the uninitiated, a compilation introducing such an esteemed archive is well overdue," says Jean-Claude. "As with previous albums curated by us, this is just a soupçon of this label's vast back catalogue, which we hope will lead the listener to discover new music and to search out more from this criminally underrated class act."

Features

Part of IF Music's "An Introduction To..." Series
Rare & Hard-To-Find Gems
Carefully Curated & Remastered with Full Cooperation from the Enja Label
Compiled by IF Music Founder, Jean-Claude
4LP

Selections

Side A:

Dollar Brand, Abdullah Ibrahim - Zimbabwe
Prince Lasha - Kwadwo Safari

Side B:

Mal Waldron - What It Is

Side C:

Cecil McBee - First Song in the Day

Side D:

Rabih Abou-Khalil - Lamentation
John Stubblefield - Mwé Malad O

Side E:

Nana Simopoulos - Pulcie's Dance

Side F:

Bobby Hutcherson - The Creators

Side G:

Marc Levin - Brothers in War

Side H:

Jon Hendricks - No More
Marvin Hannibal Peterson - Mother's Land