Joachim Kühn

Joachim Kühn
Joachim Kühn on Jazz Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 3 July 2014
Joachim Kühn, Jazz Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 3 July 2014
Background information
Birth name Joachim Kurt Kühn
Born (1944-03-15) 15 March 1944
Leipzig, Germany
Genres Classical, jazz, avant-garde jazz
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, record producer
Instruments Piano, keyboards
Years active 1961 – present
Labels Impulse!, BYG Actuel, MPS, ACT
Joachim Kühn in March 2010

Joachim Kurt Kühn (born 15 March 1944) is a German jazz pianist.

Biography

Kühn was a musical prodigy and made his debut as a concert pianist, having studied classical piano and composition with Arthur Schmidt-Elsey. Influenced by his elder brother, clarinetist Rolf Kühn, he simultaneously got interested in jazz. In 1961 he became a professional jazz musician. With a trio of his own, founded in 1964,[1] he presented the first free jazz in the GDR. In 1966 he left the country and settled in Hamburg. Together with his brother he played at the Newport Jazz Festival and recorded with Jimmy Garrison for Bob Thiele's Impulse! Records.

Kühn has lived in Paris since 1968, and worked with Don Cherry, Karl Berger, Slide Hampton, Phil Woods, Michel Portal, Barre Phillips, Eje Thelin, Ray Lema, Hellmut Hattler, and Jean-Luc Ponty.[2] As a member of Pierre Courbois's Association P.C., he turned to electronic keyboards. During the second half of the 1970s he lived in California and joined the West Coast fusion scene and recorded with Alphonse Mouzon, Billy Cobham, Michael Brecker, and Eddie Gómez.

Having settled near Paris again, he played in an acoustic trio with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Daniel Humair since 1985. In the summer of 1996, he joined Ornette Coleman[1] for two concerts at the Verona and Leipzig festivals, which opened the way for his Diminished Augmented System. More recently he has toured with Rabih Abou-Khalil and Joachim Kühn Trio with Christian Lillinger and Johannes Fink.

Discography

Solo piano

  • Charisma (Atlantic, 1977)
  • Snow in the Desert (Atlantic, 1980)
  • Distance (CMP, 1984)
  • Situations (Atlantic, 1988)
  • Dynamics (CMP, 1990)
  • Joachim Kühn Plays Lili Marleen (1994)
  • Abstracts (Label Bleu, 1995)[3]
  • The Diminished Augmented System (EmArcy, 1999)
  • Piano Works I (HighNote, 2005)

Duos

Trios

with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Aldo Romano
  • Sound of Feelings (BYG Actuel, 1969)
  • Paris Is Wonderful (Byg Actuel, 1969)
with J.-F. Jenny-Clark and Daniel Humair
  • Easy to Read (1985)
  • From Time to Time Free (1988)
  • Live 1989 (1989)
  • Carambolage (1991) with the WDR Big Band
  • Usual Confusion (1993)
  • Triple Entente (Mercury/PolyGram France, 1998)
New Trio with Eric Schaefer and Chris Jennings

Ensembles

As sideman

References

  1. 1 2 Kelsey, Chris. "Biography: Joachim Kühn". Allmusic. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
  2. ↑ "Joachim Kühn Biography". OLDIES.com. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  3. ↑ http://www.label-bleu.com/artist.php?lng=e&artist_id=26&c=d
  4. ↑ Hielscher, Hans (2012). "Rolf & Joachim Kühn Quartet: 'Lifeline'". Kulturspiegel (in German) (4): 36.
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