Label Guide: Saba
SABA (Schwarzwälder Apparate-Bau-Anstalt) was a German manufacturer for electronic equipment (radio and tv sets), based in the Black Forest area and founded in the 19th century. The record label was started in the early 1960s by SABA manager Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer, known as 'HGBS', a jazz pianist who worked with jazz legends as Hans Koller and Albert Mangelsdorff since the 1950s.
The SABA label produced about 40 Jazz LPs until 1968 when its parent company was sold to an American GTE Corporation. The new owners had no interest in SABA's recording business so Brunner-Schwer founded his own new label, MPS Records, and brought in the entire SABA back catalogue.
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1. Label Variation
first Saba label (1962 - 1966/67)
The first Saba label is very simple in style and comes without a logo.
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2. Label Variation
second Saba label (1966/67 - 1968)
The Saba Tree Logo design was used for records that were released in the last two years of Saba's lifetime. The exact date for the change to this second label is not verified at this time.