Joachim Kühn

Joachim Kühn is a German jazz pianist, born in Leipzig in 1944. Trained in classical piano and composition, he turned to jazz through his elder brother, clarinettist Rolf Kühn, and in 1964 formed a free jazz trio in East Germany. He left the GDR in 1966 and from 1968 lived mostly in Paris, moving through free jazz, electric fusion and a long acoustic trio with Daniel Humair and Jean-François Jenny-Clark. Joachim Kühn and his brother recorded Impressions of New York for Impulse! with Jimmy Garrison and Aldo Romano, released in 1968.