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Joachim Kühn

ヨアヒム・キューン　/　よあひむ・きゅーん

Pianist from Electorate of Saxony

March 15, 1944 (age 82)　・　Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony

pianist
composer
jazz musician

My Take

Joachim Kühn reminds me that music laughs at borders. Born in Leipzig in 1944, he came out of what became East Germany, trained with classical rigor, then threw himself into jazz, even picking up the saxophone and composing along the way. He simply refuses to stay in one genre's cage. That he is still at the keyboard past eighty is humbling on its own. To me jazz is the sound of freedom being improvised in real time, and there is something almost poetic about a man from a divided city spending an entire life playing exactly that. I'll take that lifelong stubbornness over any trophy.

Overview

Joachim Kurt Kühn (born 15 March 1944) is a German jazz pianist.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Joachim Kühn
Name (Japanese): ヨアヒム・キューン
Reading: よあひむ・きゅーん
Born: March 15, 1944 (age 82)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Pisces / Monkey
Origin: Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: pianist / composer / jazz musician / saxophonist / musician

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

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Children: Private
Parents: Private
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4. Personality

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6. Links

Official sitehttps://www.joachimkuehn.com/
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%82%A2%E3%83%92%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3

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