JOACHIM KUHN

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JOACHIM KUHN

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

Biography

Kühn was a musical prodigy and gave his debut as a concert pianist and 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, 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.

Living in Paris since 1968, Kühn worked with Don Cherry, Karl Berger, Slide Hampton, Phil Woods, Michel Portal, Barre Phillips, Eje Thelin, Ray Lema and Jean-Luc Ponty. As a member of Pierre Courbois's Association P.C., he turned to electronic keyboards. During the second half of the 70's he lived in California and joined the West Coast fusion scene and recorded with Alphonse Mouzon, Billy Cobham, Michael Brecker, and Eddie Gomez.

Having settled near Paris again, he played in an acoustic trio with Jean-François Jenny Clark and Daniel Humair since 1985. During Summer 1996, he joined Ornette Coleman during two festival concerts at Verona and Leipzig festivals which opened the way for his Diminished Augmented System. In the last years he toured with Rabih Abou-Khalil.

Discography

Solo Piano
Charisma (1977)
Snow in the desert (1980)
Distance (1984)
Situations (1988)
Dynamics (1990)
Joachim Kühn plays Lili Marleen (1994)
The Diminished Augmented System (1999)
Piano Works I (2005)
Piano Works IX - Live at Schloss Elmau (2009) - With Michael Wollny

Trio with Daniel Humair and Jean-François Jenny Clark
Easy To Read (1985)
From Time To Time Free (1988)
Live 1989 (1989)
Carambolage with the WDR Big Band (1991)
Usual Confusion (1993)
Triple Entente (1998) Mercury/PolyGram S.A.France

Ensembles
Impressions of New York (Impulse!, 1967)
Sound Of Feelings(1969) (trio recording on Byg Actuel)
Paris Is Wonderful (1969) (trio recording on Byg Actuel)
Hip Elegy (1975) with Terumasa Hino, Philip Catherine, John Lee, Naná Vasconcelos, Alphonse Mouzon
Solo Now (1976) with Albert Mangelsdorff, Gunter Hampel, Pierre Favre
Springfever (1976) with Philip Catherine, John Lee, Gerry Brown, Zbigniew Seifert, Curt Cress, (Atlantic)
Sunshower (1978) with Jan Akkerman, Ray Gomez, (Atlantic)
Joachim Kühn & Jan Akkerman Live (1979)
Nightline New York (1981) with Michael Brecker, Eddie Gomez, Billy Hart, Bob Mintzer, Mark Nauseef
Colors with Ornette Coleman; 1996)
Dark with Walter Quintus
Get up early with Walter Quintus
Universal Time (2001) with Chris Potter, Scott Colley, Horacio 'El Negro' Hernandez, Michel Portal
Bach Now - Live (2002) with Thomanerchor
Poison (2005) with Jean-Paul Celea, Wolfgang Reisinger
Journey to the center of an egg with Rabih Abou-Khalil, Jarrod Cagwin
Kalimba (2007) with Majid Bekkas, Ramón López (ACT9456-2)

as Sideman
Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet w/ Joachim Kühn: Live at Kosmos, Berlin (ITM 1965)
The Rolf Kühn Group The Day After (BASF/MPS 1972) featuring Phil Woods
Association P. C. + Jeremy Steig: Mama Kuku (MPS 1974)
The Rolf Kühn Group Connection 74 (BASF/MPS 1974) featuring Randy Brecker
Coryell - Catherine - Kühn Live! (Elektra 1980)