Rolf Kühn

Rolf Kühn (1929-2022) was a German jazz clarinettist and saxophonist, born in Cologne and the older brother of the pianist Joachim Kühn. He lived in the United States from 1956 to 1962, then returned to West Germany, where he directed the NDR Television Orchestra in Hamburg while playing music that ranged from traditional jazz to free jazz and jazz-rock. He died in Berlin in 2022. In the United States John Hammond compared him with Benny Goodman and arranged recordings for Vanguard, among them Streamline.