Categories:
Cart 0

Your cart is empty

Rolf Kühn

Rolf Kühn's style evolved over the course of his career. The clarinetist started out playing in German dance bands in the late '40s. He worked with radio orchestras starting in 1952 and moved to the U.S. in 1956. Kühn subbed for Benny Goodman on a few occasions in 1957 and 1958, played in the Tommy Dorsey ghost band (1958), and worked in a big band led by Urbie Green (1958-1960). In 1962, he returned to Germany, where he explored more adventurous styles of jazz (including dates with his younger brother, keyboardist Joachim Kühn), but he still occasionally showed off his ties to swing. Kühn recorded with an all-star group called Winner's Circle (1957), Toshiko Akiyoshi (1958), and as a leader starting in 1953, including a 1956 New York quartet date for Vanguard. Rolf Kühn died on August 18, 2022, in Berlin at the age of 92.
© Scott Yanow /TiVo
Listen

Similar artists

Emil Mangelsdorff
Arne Domnerus
Eric Dolphy
Perry Robinson
Doc Severinsen
Louis Sclavis
Anthony Braxton
Wolfgang Dauner
Buddy Defranco
Bud Freeman
Ack van Rooyen
Tony Scott
Gerd Dudek
Albert Mangelsdorff
Herb Geller
David Liebman
Volker Kriegel
Don Byron
Klaus Doldinger
Michel Portal
Bill Easley
Manfred Schoof
Gunter Hampel
Michal Urbaniak
Joachim Kühn
Horst Jankowski
Eddie Daniels
Ken Vandermark
Alvin Batiste
Theo Jorgensmann
Jimmy Giuffre
John Carter
Ornette Coleman

Discography

20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller

My favorites

This item has been successfully <span>added / removed</span> from your favorites.

Sort and filter releases