Joachim Kühn

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

Biography Kühn was born in Leipzig, Germany. 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 and Aldo Romano for Impulse!.

Kühn has largely 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. 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 1969 Sound of Feelings BYG Actuel Trio, with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Aldo Romano 1970 Paris Is Wonderful Byg Actuel Trio, with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Aldo Romano 1973 This Way Out BASF/MPS with Gerd Dudek, Peter Warren, Daniel Humair 1974 Cinemascope 1976 Hip Elegy MPS with Terumasa Hino, Philip Catherine, John Lee, Naná Vasconcelos, Alphonse Mouzon 1976 Solo Now with Albert Mangelsdorff, Gunter Hampel, Pierre Favre 1976 Springfever Atlantic Most tracks quartet, with Philip Catherine (guitar), John Lee (bass), Gerry Brown (drums); one track with Zbigniew Seifert (violin), Curt Cress (drums) added 1977 Charisma Atlantic Solo piano 1978 Sunshower Atlantic With Jan Akkerman and Ray Gomez (guitar), Tony Newton (electric bass, piccolo bass), Glenn Symmonds (drums), Willie Dee (vocals) 1979 Kiel/Stuttgart Live! Inak Duo, with Jan Akkerman (guitar, electric guitar, synthesizer); in concert 1985 Transformations CMP Solo piano; also known as Wandlungen 1988 From Time to Time Free CMP Trio, with Jean-François Jenny-Clark (bass), Daniel Humair (drums) 1990 Dynamics CMP Solo piano 1990 Let's Be Generous CMP With Miroslav Tadic (guitar), Tony Newton (bass), Mark Nauseef (drums, percussion) 1987–95 Joachim Kühn Birthday Edition / Europeana ACT Some tracks trio, with Jean-François Jenny-Clark (bass), Daniel Humair (drums); in concert; other tracks released on Europeana; released 2014 1995 Famous Melodies Label Bleu Solo piano 1996 Colors: Live from Leipzig Harmolodic/Verve Duo, with Ornette Coleman (alto sax, trumpet, violin); in concert 1997? Generations from (East) Germany KlangRäume Duo, with Connie Bauer 1998? Triple Entente Mercury/PolyGram France Trio, with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Daniel Humair 1999 The Diminished Augmented System EmArcy Solo piano 2008 Piano Works IX: Live at Schloss Elmau ACT Duo, with Michael Wollny (piano); in concert 2008 Out of the Desert ACT With Majid Bekkas (vocals, guembri, kalimba, molo), Ramón López (drums, tabla), guests 2010 Chalaba ACT Trio, with Majid Bekkas (vocals, guembri, oud), Ramón López (drums, tabla, percussion) 2010 Out of the Desert Live ACT With Majid Bekkas (vocals, guembri, oud), Ramón López (drums, tabla, percussion), hr-Bigband / Frankfurt Radio Bigband; in concert 2011? Wo!man Archie Ball Duo, with Archie Shepp 2011–12 Voodoo Sense ACT With Majid Bekkas (guembri, vocals, kalimba, balafon), Ramón López (drums, percussion); with Archie Shepp (tenor sax), Kouassi Bessan Joseph and Gouria Danielle (percussion, vocals), Dally Jean Eric (calabas), Gilles Ahadji (jembe), Abdessadek Bounhar (karkabou) added on some tracks 2012? Lifeline Boutique with Rolf Kühn, John Patitucci, Brian Blade 2014? Moscow ACT Duo, with Alexey Kruglov (alto sax) 2015 Beauty and Truth ACT Trio, with Chris Jennings (bass), Eric Schaefer (drums) 2017 Love & Peace ACT Trio, with Chris Jennings (bass), Eric Schaefer (drums) 2018 Piano Works XIII: Melodic Ornette Coleman ACT Solo piano 2020 Speaking Sound ACT Duo with violinist Mateusz Smoczyński 2021 Touch the Light ACT Solo piano 2024 Duo ACT Duo, with Michael Wollny (piano); in concert, 2023

As sideman Jan Akkerman, Jan Akkerman (Atlantic, 1977) Gary Bartz, Lee Konitz, Jackie McLean and Charlie Mariano: Altissimo (Philips, 1973) Larry Coryell - Catherine - Kühn: Live! (Elektra, 1980) Association P.C. (Pierre Courbois) and Jeremy Steig: Mama Kuku (Live) (BASF/MPS, 1974) Joe Henderson Collective: Black Narcissus (Milestone, 1976) The Rolf Kühn Group: Solarius (Amiga, 1965) The Rolf Kühn Group: The Day After (BASF/MPS, 1972) featuring Phil Woods The Rolf Kühn Group: Connection 74 (BASF/MPS, 1974) featuring Randy Brecker Werner Müller Quintett, on side one of anthology Modern Jazz Studio Nr. 2 (Amiga, 1966) Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet with Joachim Kühn: Live at Kosmos, Berlin (ITM, 1965, released, 2008) Zbigniew Seifert: Man of the Light (BASF/MPS, 1976) with Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, and Jasper van 't Hof SHQ, led by Karel Velebný - SHQ A Přátelé (Supraphon, 1965) Alan Silva: Seasons (BYG, 1971)