Ogun Records

Ogun Records is a U.K. record label created by the husband and wife team of South African expat bassist Harry Miller and Hazel Miller, with sound engineer Keith Beal, initially to record and release the music being created by the upcoming Brit new/avant jazz musicians - including Keith Tippett, Mike Osborne, Elton Dean, Lol Coxhill, Harry Beckett, Trevor Watts et al - in the early 1970s, as well as their collaborations with the expatriate members of the South African group The Blue Notes - including Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Louis Moholo, and Johnny Dyani - in groups like McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Dean's Ninesense, and Miller's Isipingo.[1]

The label is active to this day, although it did not have any releases for several years beginning in 1980, during which the Millers lived in The Netherlands. Harry Miller was killed in a car accident in 1983. Hazel Miller started releasing new titles on LP in 1986, with help from John Jack of Cadillac Records, and in 1990 switched the format of releases to CD starting with Elton Dean's Unlimited Saxophone Company. Since then, almost every year has seen one to three new additions to the CD catalog - most are new or unreleased recordings, and some are CD editions of the earlier LP releases.

Discography

LPs

Double LPs

CDs


See also

References

  1. ↑ Independent labels, efi.group.shef.ac.uk
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