Winter & Winter

Winter & Winter is an independent record label in Munich, which tracks both in jazz and classical and new music is at home and generally a cross-border approach.

General information on the label

Winter & Winter was founded in 1995 by Stefan Winter as the successor of the label JMT ( Jazz Music Today ), after he had sold the latter to Polydor KK (Japan). The label took over artists from JMT and additionally built from the stylistic bandwidth by as a second pillar put on productions in the fields of classical and new music. This step is similar to the Munich -based ECM also in the label, which also started with jazz and eventually created a new ECM New Series for classical and contemporary music. Winter & Winter is decreased compared to other labels over the years in its spectrum, especially in the width ( movies, audio books, etc.) and published recordings that bring together different styles of music ( a special exponent here is Uri Caine ) or in terms of a musical style only are difficult to categorize, such as some of the theme-based projects.

Winter & Winter brings only one publication per month out, however, that so far already could for example consist of a CD box or different media comprehensive special edition usually. Due to this limited release frame all the artists of the label can not keep their shots in a regular sequence so as to accommodate for larger labels; associated with the label musicians such as Noël Akchoté and Fred Frith have released most of their plates at other labels, Paul Motian has housed a recording of his renowned trio once during ECM.

Winter & Winter became known also by its cover design, rather than the usual plastic CD trays is consistently placed on cardboard, the design comes from a small tribe designers. The rights to the recordings of JMT were bought back by Stefan Winter and formed the basis for the JMT Edition, in which over a period of three years, all recordings were re-released remastered.

Editions

Each shot of the label is part of a particular edition:

  • Music Edition - images in the fields of jazz, classical and new music
  • JMT Edition - remastered recordings of all previous labels
  • Audio film - theme-based projects ( countries, cities, musical styles and composers, establishments, etc.)
  • Literature Edition - Audio Books

In the early years of the label, there was a division into a Basic ( up to and including the 20th century ) New ( contemporary ) and Artist Edition ( improvised music).

Well-known artists with at least three publications

  • Uri Caine (piano)
  • Paul Motian (drums)
  • Fred Frith ( electric guitar )
  • Jim Black (drums)

With at least three re-releases within the JMT Edition:

All three started their career at JMT, before they switched to other labels.

Awards

Stefan Winter 2001 received the honorary certificate by The German Record Critics

Others

  • The name Winter & Winter is based on the original desire Stefan Winters involve his brother, but this proved to be impossible.
  • The publications can be purchased through a subscription.
  • Since July 2000, Winter & Winter presents works of artists who are involved in the cover design, the Munich district of Schwabing.
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