Rolf Kühn
German jazz clarinetist, composer and big band leader

Rolf Kühn

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German jazz clarinetist, composer and big band leader
Gender:
Male
Places:
Germany
Is:
MusicianClarinetistSaxophonistJazz musicianComposerConductorFilm score composer
Work field:
Film, TV, Stage & RadioMusic
Birth:
29 September 1929(Cologne)
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Rolf Kühn (born 29 September 1929 in Köln, Germany) is a jazz clarinetist and saxophonist.
He lived in the United States from 1956 to 1959 and drew favourable reviews, for example a comparison with Benny Goodman by John H. Hammond.
He is the older brother of the pianist Joachim Kühn. In 2008 he founded the Band Rolf Kühn & TriO with Christian Lillinger, Ronny Graupe and Johannes Fink.

Discography

As leader

  • 1960: Rolf Kühn and His Sound of Jazz (Fresh Sound)
  • 1962: Rolf Kühn Feat. Klaus Doldinger (Brunswick)
  • 1964: Solarius (Amiga)
  • 1965: Re-Union in Berlin (CBS)
  • 1967: Impressions of New York (Impulse!)
  • 1968: Monday Morning (Columbia)
  • 1970: Going to the Rainbow (BASF)
  • 1971: Devil in Paradise (MPS)
  • 1972: The Day After (MPS)
  • 1978: Symphonic Swampfire (MPS)
  • 1997: Affairs (Intuition)
  • 1999: Inside Out (Intuition)
  • 2001: Smile (Intuition)
  • 2003: Internal Eyes (Intuition)
  • 2009: Close Up (jazzwerkstatt; as Rolf Kühn & Tri-O)
  • 2004: Bouncing with Bud (In + Out)
  • 2012: Lifeline (Boutique)
  • 2015: Stereo (Edel; as Rolf Kühn Unit)

As sideman

With Eddie Costa

  • 1957: Eddie Costa, Mat Mathews & Don Elliott at Newport (Verve)

With Toshiko Akiyoshi

  • 1958: United Notions
  • Hielscher, Hans (2012). "Rolf & Joachim Kühn Quartet: 'Lifeline'". Kulturspiegel (in German) (4): 36.