Interview with Joachim Kühn

In one of our previous posts we have already talked about our reissue of Alphonse Mouzon's „In Search Of  A Dream“ on 180g Vinyl and CD. Today we will leave the talking to Joachim Kühn whom we met a little while ago. Kühn was deeply involved in the recording of “In Search Of A Dream”  at the Zuckerfabrik  in Stuttgart 1977. Kühn and Mouzon also collaborated on Joachim Kühn's album “Hip Elegy” on both he had a lot of stories to share.

Joachim Kühn 1977

Pianist-composer Joachim Kühn has been a force on the international jazz scene for half a century. Trained as a classical pianist, Kühn migrated to jazz, playing fusion with Alphonse Mouzon, free jazz with Ornette Coleman, and modern jazz in his iconic group with bassist JF Jenny-Clarke and drummer Daniel Humair.

Joachim Kühn worked on an incredible 25 albums for MPS, 9 under his own name and 16 as a sideman. Time and time again he collaborated with his older brother Rolf Kühn and they sometimes still play together to this day.

Joachim Kühn 2017

We caught up with Joachim not so long ago in Hamburg and talked about his time with MPS and about working with Alphonse Mouzon. Check out the interview video.