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Rolf Kühn

Rolf Kühn (29 September 1929 – 18 August 2022) was a German jazz clarinetist and saxophonist. He was the older brother of the pianist Joachim Kühn.

Kühn lived in the United States from 1956 to 1962. John Hammond favourably compared him with Benny Goodman. He moved to West Germany in 1962, where he became the director of the NDR Television Orchestra in Hamburg. He concurrently had a performing and recording career. Since the 1960s, his musical scope has encompassed not only traditional jazz but also free jazz and jazz-rock

In 2008, he founded band with Christian Lillinger, Ronny Graupe, and Johannes Fink.

Rolf Kühn died on 18 August 2022, at the age of 92.

With Joachim Kuhn

With Horst Jankowski

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