Results for "Joachim Kühn"

William Parker, Clemens Kuratle, Ernesto Jodos & Apophenia

by Maurice Hogue
September 19, 2022

There is plenty of new releases in this edition of One Man's Jazz, headed by a retrospective of earlier works of William Parker and a who's-who of guests (Universal Tonality). Also tracking back in time are releases from drummer Idris Muhammad and with his own retrospective of his ECM releases, guitarist Steve Tibbetts. From Europe come ...

We'll Cross That Third Stream When We Come To It

by Patrick Burnette
July 21, 2022

Ambition can be a great thing in jazz—emphasis on the “can." We look at a mixed bag of releases experimenting with third stream music, Bach, and other elements. The results, like the music itself, are mixed. Still, our guess is that you haven't heard about at least one of these artists yet, and maybe not all ...

Joachim Kuhn, Day & Taxi & Java Quartet

by Maurice Hogue
June 29, 2022

German pianist/alto player Joachim Kuhn arrived in Paris in the late '60s; that city was the epicenter of an explosion in free jazz, fueled by several musicians from America (many of them from the AACM) and a desire among European players to push their music forward. One concert that Kuhn played at in the fall of ...

The Clarinet Trio: Transformations and Further Passages

by John Eyles
April 9, 2022

A clarinet trio is a chamber trio comprising a clarinet, a bowed string instrument such as a violin, viola or cello, and a piano; the phrase can also refer to a composition written for such a trio. However, away from such matters, The Clarinet Trio is the name of a three-clarinet group which first recorded together ...

Geno Thackara's Favorites of 2021

by Geno Thackara
December 31, 2021

Insert the usual cliches here as you see fit: strange times, “new normal," all that stuff. Still, even while some of us give up on terms like “normal" and get used to the idea that there may never be a post-Covid world, great music and art never stops. Amidst another bumper crop of more things than ...

Touch the Light

By Joachim Kühn

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Warm Canto; Allegretto (from Symphony no. 7); A Remark You Made; Sintra; Ponta de Areia; Redemption Song; Touch the Light; Fever; Blue Velvet; Stardust; Purple Rain; Last Tango in Paris; Peace Piece.

Solo Piano - Yin and Yang

by Geno Thackara
November 8, 2021

Cornelius Claudio Kreusch Transformer Self Produced 2021 Though it's easy enough for a player to find a home niche, Cornelius Claudio Kreusch sounds like he won't really be satisfied until he's practically tried them all. Classically-trained and having whirled through fusion, funk, Latin, African, film scores and probably too much else ...

Mauro Sigura Quartet: Terra Vetro

by Chris May
January 3, 2021

Although the Italian oud player and composer Mauro Sigura bills his band as a world-jazz group which combines traditional Ottoman-Mediterranean music with modern European jazz, the band's sophomore album is not full-on, capped-up World Jazz in the manner of, say, fellow oudist Anouar Brahem's Blue Maqams (ECM, 2017). That album, made with double bassist Dave Holland, ...

Joachim Kühn

Born: March 15, 1944

His playing defies all categorization, and has earned him a place as a world class musician. He hasalready left his mark on contemporary jazz and given it new direction. The musical cosmopolitanJoachim Kühn sees himself as part of the jazz tradition, connected to European concert music and yetdirectly indebted to a contemporary musical language.

He displays vehemence and sensibility, a virtuoso technique and imagination and an unfailing sense ofdynamics. Be it in his interaction with long-time musical partners, in ever new and challenging musicalconstellations, or alone in his solo performances, Kühn always manages to make his concerts into aunique experience.

2019: Striking A Balance In Review, Part 2

by Henning Bolte
February 8, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2This is the second part of an article that looks back and reflects on experiences with live music in 2019. This part deals with a musician's legacy (Ornette Coleman) and continues with an examination of artistic developments and dynamics in the jazz field in a festival (Jazzfest Berlin) and related ...