![]() ![]() In 1966, Joachim Kühn defected to West Germany after playing at a competition for young jazz musicians organised by Friedrich Gulda. His first trio, formed in 1964, played music that was way ahead of its time in its openness to free improvisation. Only 17 years old, he decided to become a jazz musician. Kühn, who already enjoyed a first-class classical training and was performing as a concert pianist at an early age, developed an enthusiasm for jazz under the influence of his older brother, clarinettist Rolf Kühn. ![]() ![]() Be it in his interaction with long-time musical partners, in ever new and challenging musical constellations, or alone in his solo performances, Kühn always manages to make his concerts into a unique experience.Įven if some of the stations on his path from Leipzig, where Kühn was born in 1944, through his time in France and America may seem like diversions his musical career not only displays cohesion, but also an inner logic that only becomes truly apparent with hindsight. He displays vehemence and sensibility, a virtuoso technique and imagination and an unfailing sense of dynamics. The musical cosmopolitan Joachim Kühn sees himself as part of the jazz tradition, connected to European concert music and yet directly indebted to a contemporary musical language. He has already left his mark on contemporary jazz and given it new direction. His playing defies all categorization, and has earned him a place as a world class musician. ![]()
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