# Ornament Records
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{{Short description|German record label}}
{{Infobox record label
| name = Ornament Records
| image =
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| parent =
| founded = {{start date|1972}}
| founder = Siegfried A. Christmann
| distributor =
| genre = [Blues](/source/Blues), [jazz](/source/jazz), [folk](/source/folk_music)
| country = [Germany](/source/Germany)
| location =
| url = {{URL|www.ornament-musikproduktion.de}}
}}
'''Ornament Records''' is a [German](/source/Germans) [record label](/source/record_label) set up in 1972[{{cite web|url=http://www.wirz.de/music/ornamfrm.htm|title=Illustrated Ornament Records discography|website=Wirz.de|accessdate=6 June 2016}}] by Siegfried A. "Ziggy" Christmann. It initially specialised in issuing live recordings of [blues](/source/blues) artists who were touring Germany. Soon the label started releasing [jazz](/source/jazz) and German (especially [Moselle Franconian](/source/Moselle_Franconian)) [folk](/source/Folk_music) 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](/source/Doctor_Ross), [Willie Mabon](/source/Willie_Mabon), [John Lee Hooker](/source/John_Lee_Hooker), [Blind John Davis](/source/Blind_John_Davis), [Jim Kahr](/source/Jim_Kahr) Group, [Champion Jack Dupree](/source/Champion_Jack_Dupree), [Sunnyland Slim](/source/Sunnyland_Slim), [Tommy Tucker](/source/Tommy_Tucker_(singer)), [Big Joe Williams](/source/Big_Joe_Williams), [Fernest Arceneaux](/source/Fernest_Arceneaux), [Louisiana Red](/source/Louisiana_Red), [Al Rapone](/source/Al_Rapone), [Katie Webster](/source/Katie_Webster), [Big Jay McNeely](/source/Big_Jay_McNeely), [Detroit Gary Wiggins](/source/Gary_Wiggins_(musician)) & [Chris Rannenberg](/source/Chris_Rannenberg) as the International Blues Duo and Black Cat Bone.[{{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}}]
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.[{{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}}] Some of these were released again on the Chrisly label in 2000 under the Ornament Blues Masters series.[{{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}}]
Ornament also had two short-lived blues sub-labels: Chrischaa and ESCEHA Schallplatten. Both of these folded in June 1978.