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Blues Beacon Records

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Blues Beacon Records
Parent companyEnja Records
Founded4 November 1977
Founder
  • Matthias Winckelmann
  • Horst Weber
GenreBlues (early), jazz (present)
Country of originGermany
LocationGeretsried

Blues Beacon is a German independent record label, founded in the 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

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  1. ^ "Living Blues: Vol. 9-12". Living Blues. Center for the Study of Southern Culture: 15. 1972. Retrieved June 9, 2020 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Blues Unlimited: Vol. 106-109". Blues Unlimited. BU Publications: 17. 1974. Retrieved June 9, 2020 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Jazz Times: Vol. 22". Jazz Times. Jazztimes: 138. 1992. Retrieved June 9, 2020 – via Google Books.
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