JAPO Records

JAPO Records was a West German jazz record label that was founded by Karl Egger and 1970-1985 was. The sister label of ECM produced and published a total of 41 LPs in the field of fusion up to improvised music, most of European artists. His seat was the label that emerged from the shipping business "Jazz by Mail " ( its abbreviation was the label name) in Munich.

Appeared on JAPO inter alia albums by Mal Waldron, Dollar Brand, Barre Phillips, Herbert Joos, Edward Vesala, Jiri & Rudolf Stivin Dasek, Tom van der Geld, Enrico Rava, Manfred Schoof, Stephan Micus, the Globe Unity Orchestra, OM, Lennart Åberg, George Gruntz, Barry Guy, Elton Dean, Peter Warren, Alfred Harth, Heiner Goebbels Paul Lovens, Michael Jüllich, Alois Kott, Evert Brettschneider, Christy Doran, AMM and Klaus Koenig. The production for the label was performed by musicians such as by established producers, such as Steve Lake, Jack DeJohnette, Manfred Eicher and hook Elmquist, with most projects of Thomas Stöwsand were cared for. As engineers, inter alia Martin Wieland and Jan Erik Haug Kong, who also worked intensively during this time for the sister label ECM acted. Other engineers were Klaus Bornemann, Carlos Albrecht, Lars Vester Petersen, Eddie Korvin, Biff Dawes, Harry Bergman, Tom Mark and Jean Deloron. Also shots like about the album by Bobby Naughton were taken under license from America.

The productions of JAPO - catalog appeared almost exclusively in LP format; numerous titles were re-released on compact disc on other labels.