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Joachim Kühn

Joachim Kühn has been played on NTS in shows including The Pentagon Faceslap, featured first on 29 November 2016. Songs played include Shrewd Woman, Sunshine and Bandundu.

Born in Leipzig on March 15, 1944, Joachim Kühn gave his young-age debut as a concert pianist and studied classical piano and composition with Arthur Schmidt-Elsey. Influenced by his elder brother, clarinet-player Rolf Kühn, he simultaneously got interested in jazz and started leading traditional and mainstream combos very early. In 1961 he became a professional jazz musician. With a trio of his own, founded in 1964, he presented the first European-rooted free jazz in the GDR. In 1966…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
Shrewd Woman
Rabih Abou-Khalil, Joachim Kühn, Jarrod Cagwin
Enja Records2005
Shrewd Woman
Rabih Abou-Khalil, Joachim Kühn, Jarrod CagwinEnja Records2005
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Sunshine
Joachim Kühn
Atlantic1976
Sunshine
Joachim KühnAtlantic1976
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Bandundu
Jasper Van't Hof, Joachim Kühn
MPS Records1983
Bandundu
Jasper Van't Hof, Joachim KühnMPS Records1983
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Equal Evil
Joachim Kühn
Atlantic1976
Equal Evil
Joachim KühnAtlantic1976
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This Way Out
Joachim Kühn
MPS Records, BASF1973
This Way Out
Joachim KühnMPS Records, BASF1973
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Black Tears
Joachim Kühn
MPS Records, BASF1974
Black Tears
Joachim KühnMPS Records, BASF1974
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To Be Continued
Joachim Kühn
Entente1987
To Be Continued
Joachim KühnEntente1987
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