{{Short description|German record label}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Ornament Records | image = <!-- logo, such as "LABEL-LOGO.jpg" --> | image_size = <!-- size --> | parent = <!-- parent company, such as "Warner Music Group" --> | founded = {{start date|1972}} | founder = Siegfried A. Christmann | distributor = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> --> | genre = Blues, jazz, folk | country = Germany | location = | url = {{URL|www.ornament-musikproduktion.de}} }}
'''Ornament Records''' is a German record label set up in 1972<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wirz.de/music/ornamfrm.htm|title=Illustrated Ornament Records discography|website=Wirz.de|accessdate=6 June 2016}}</ref> by Siegfried A. "Ziggy" Christmann. It initially specialised in issuing live recordings of blues artists who were touring Germany. Soon the label started releasing jazz and German (especially Moselle Franconian) folk music as well.
Artists who were recorded for the label or in some cases whose US recordings were released on the label included Doctor Ross, Willie Mabon, John Lee Hooker, Blind John Davis, Jim Kahr Group, Champion Jack Dupree, Sunnyland Slim, Tommy Tucker, Big Joe Williams, Fernest Arceneaux, Louisiana Red, Al Rapone, Katie Webster, Big Jay McNeely, Detroit Gary Wiggins & Chris Rannenberg as the International Blues Duo and Black Cat Bone.<ref name="Wirz">{{cite web |url= http://www.wirz.de/music/ornament.htm|title= Ornament Discography|first1= Stefan |last1= Wirz|date= January 8, 2010|work= American Music|publisher= |accessdate=January 30, 2010}}</ref>
Almost all of the label's original blues LPs were—some with additional bonus tracks—re-released on CD on the CMA label in 1991.<ref name="CMA">{{cite web |url= http://www.bluescat.com/NumberedFiles/107.htm|title= Ornament (CMA Music Production)|first1= |last1= |date= February 5, 2004|work= The Bluescat Catalogue|publisher= |accessdate=January 30, 2010}}</ref> Some of these were released again on the Chrisly label in 2000 under the Ornament Blues Masters series.<ref name="Chrisly">{{cite web |url= http://www.bluescat.com/NumberedFiles/155.htm|title= Chrisly|first1= |last1= |date= February 5, 2004|work= The Bluescat Catalogue|publisher= |accessdate=January 30, 2010}}</ref>
Ornament also had two short-lived blues sub-labels: Chrischaa and ESCEHA Schallplatten. Both of these folded in June 1978.<ref name="Wirz"/>
== See also == * List of record labels
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.ornament-musikproduktion.de Official website (German)]
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Category:German jazz record labels Category:Blues record labels Category:Folk record labels
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