Ogun Records

Ogun is a UK based independent record label, published by the British and South African avant-garde jazz.

Named after the Voodoo god Ogun label was founded by Hazel and Harry Miller with the sound engineer Keith Beal 1974. Initial impetus came from the live recording of Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath of successful Willisau, which proved to the established labels as not publishable. The label documented to date one hand, South Africa, affiliated with the London scene jazz musicians such as Louis Moholo, on the other hand projects important protagonists of contemporary jazz from the UK as Keith Tippett, Elton Dean and Harry Beckett. For example, Ogun published the work of the legendary saxophone Trion SOS by John Surman, Mike Osborne and Alan Skidmore, but also the plate of the quartet singing voices with Julie Tippett, Maggie Nicols, Phil Minton and Brian Ely.

After the label at the end of 1980 was quite inactive, in addition to new releases, parts of the back-up catalog are now being released on CD. The label is run by Hazel Miller with John Jack of Cadillac Music.