Blues Beacon Records
Parent companyEnja Records
FoundedNovember 4, 1977
Founder
  • Matthias Winckelmann
  • Horst Weber
Genrejazz
Country of originGermany
LocationGeretsried

Blues Beacon is a German independent record label, founded in the early 1970s in Munich by Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber to record blues artists while touring Europe, e.g. Robert Pete Williams, Little Brother Montgomery, Bukka White, Thomas Shaw.[1][2] Blues Beacon today is a sub-label of Enja Records, specialising in jazz and world music. The early Blues Beacon recordings were issued on CD in the 1990s, few of them today are still part of the "Enja" catalogue.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Living Blues: Vol. 9-12". Center for the Study of Southern Culture. 1972: 15. Retrieved June 9, 2020 – via Google Books. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ↑ "Blues Unlimited: Vol. 106-109". BU Publications. 1974: 17. Retrieved June 9, 2020 – via Google Books. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ↑ "Jazz Times: Vol. 22". Jazztimes. 1992: 138. Retrieved June 9, 2020 – via Google Books. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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