If Music presents: You Need This! An Introduction To Enja Records

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Disc 1
A1. Dollar Brand, Abdullah Ibrahim - Zimbabwe
A2. Prince Lasha - Kwadwo Safari
B1. Mal Waldron - What It Is

Disc 2
C1.Cecil McBee - First Song in the Day
D1.Rabih Abou-Khalil - Lamentation
D2. John Stubblefield - Mwé Malad O

Disc 3
E1. Nana Simopoulos - Pulcie’s Dance
F1. Bobby Hutcherson - The Creators

Disc 4
G1. Marc Levin - Brothers in War
H1. Jon Hendricks - No More
H2. Marvin Hannibal Peterson - Mother's Land

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1.	Dollar Brand, Abdullah Ibrahim - Zimbabwe 05:27	buy track
2.	Prince Lasha - Kwadwo Safari 07:37	buy track
3.	Mal Waldron - What It Is 17:58	buy track
4.	Cecil McBee - First Song in the Day 17:16	buy track
5.	Rabih Abou-Khalil - Lamentation 08:58	buy track
6.	John Stubblefield - Mwé Malad O 04:14	buy track
7.	Nana Simopoulos - Pulcie’s Dance 12:47	buy track
8.	Bobby Hutcherson - The Creators 18:21	buy track
9.	Marc Levin - Brothers in War 11:09	buy track
10.	Jon Hendricks - No More 03:28	buy track
11.	Marvin Hannibal Peterson - Mother's Land 05:07	buy track

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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 knowledgable and passionate vinyl specialists in the business.

Featuring performances by John Stubblefield, Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Don Cherry, Cecil McBee and Pharoah Sanders collaborator Marvin Hannibal Peterson to name but a few, 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.”

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released May 20, 2022

IF Music
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