Heinz Kühn, 1966

Heinz Kühn (18 February 1912 – 12 March 1992) was a German politician (SPD) and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia (1966-1978). He was born in Cologne.

External links[link]

Media related to Heinz Kühn at Wikimedia Commons

• Heinz Kühn in the German National Library catalogue (German)
• Biographie

v t e Ministers-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Rudolf Amelunxen Karl Arnold Fritz Steinhoff Franz Meyers Heinz Kühn Johannes Rau Wolfgang Clement Peer Steinbrück Jürgen Rüttgers Hannelore Kraft

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Michael Wollny in 2009

Michael Wollny (born 1978 in Schweinfurt) is a German jazz pianist.

Selected discography[link]

• Wollny / Kriener / Leyh: CDNR3 (2001)
• Heinz Sauer / Michael Wollny: Melancholia (2004)
• Young Friends: Great German Song Book (2005)
• Wollny / Kruse / Schaefer: Call it [em] (2005)
• Heinz Sauer / Michael Wollny: Certain Beauty (2006)
• Michael Wollny: Piano Works VII: Hexentanz (2007)
• Wollny / Kruse / Schaefer: [em] 3 (2008)
• Joachim Kühn / Michael Wollny: live at Schloss Elmau (2009)
• Michael Wollny / Tamar Halperin: Wunderkammer (2009)

External links[link]

• Michael Wollny at Allmusic
• Michael Wollny at All About Jazz
• Profile at www.thejazzman.com
• Biography on the website of his label ACT
• Wollny / Kruse / Schaefer
• Michael Wollny at MySpace

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Joachim Kühn
March 2010
Background information
Born	(1944-03-15) 15 March 1944 (age 68)
Genres	Classical music, Jazz
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, record producer
Instruments	Piano, keyboards
Years active	1961 - Present
Labels	Impulse! Records

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

Biography[link]

Kühn was a musical prodigy and made his debut as a concert pianist, having studied classical piano and composition with Arthur Schmidt-Elsey. Influenced by his elder brother, clarinetist Rolf Kühn, he simultaneously got interested in jazz. In 1961 he became a professional jazz musician. With a trio of his own, founded in 1964,^[1] he presented the first free jazz in the GDR. In 1966 he left the country and settled in Hamburg. Together with his brother he played at the Newport Jazz Festival and recorded with Jimmy Garrison for Bob Thiele's Impulse! Records.

Kühn has lived in Paris since 1968, and worked with Don Cherry, Karl Berger, Slide Hampton, Phil Woods, Michel Portal, Barre Phillips, Eje Thelin, Ray Lema, Hellmut Hattler, and Jean-Luc Ponty. As a member of Pierre Courbois's Association P.C., he turned to electronic keyboards. During the second half of the 70's he lived in California and joined the West Coast fusion scene and recorded with Alphonse Mouzon, Billy Cobham, Michael Brecker, and Eddie Gomez.

Having settled near Paris again, he played in an acoustic trio with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Daniel Humair since 1985. In the summer of 1996, he joined Ornette Coleman^[1] for two concerts at the Verona and Leipzig festivals, which opened the way for his Diminished Augmented System. More recently he has toured with Rabih Abou-Khalil.

Discography[link]

Solo piano[link]

• Charisma (Atlantic, 1977)
• Snow in the Desert (Atlantic, 1980)
• Distance (CMP, 1984)
• Situations (Atlantic, 1988)
• Dynamics (CMP, 1990)
• Joachim Kühn Plays Lili Marleen (1994)
• The Diminished Augmented System (EmArcy, 1999)
• Piano Works I (2005)

Duos[link]

• with Walter Quintus: Dark (Ambiance, 1988)
• with Walter Quintus: Get Up Early (Ambiance, 1991)
• with Ornette Coleman: Colors: Live from Leipzig (Harmolodic/Verve, 1996)
• with Connie Bauer: Generations from (East) Germany (KlangRäume, 1997)
• with Michael Wollny: Piano Works IX - Live at Schloss Elmau (ACT, 2009)
• with Archie Shepp: Wo!man (Archie Ball, 2011)

Trios[link]

with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Aldo Romano

• Sound of Feelings (BYG Actuel, 1969)
• Paris Is Wonderful (Byg Actuel, 1969)

with J.-F. Jenny-Clark and Daniel Humair

• Easy to Read (1985)
• From Time to Time Free (1988)
• Live 1989 (1989)
• Carambolage (1991) with the WDR Big Band
• Usual Confusion (1993)
• Triple Entente (Mercury/PolyGram France, 1998)

Ensembles[link]

• Impressions of New York (Impulse!, 1967)
• This Way Out (BASF/MPS, 1973) with Gerd Dudek, Peter Warren, Daniel Humair
• Cinemascope (1974)
• Hip Elegy (1975) with Terumasa Hino, Philip Catherine, John Lee, Naná Vasconcelos, Alphonse Mouzon
• Solo Now (1976) with Albert Mangelsdorff, Gunter Hampel, Pierre Favre
• Springfever (Atlantic, 1976) with Philip Catherine, John Lee, Gerry Brown, Zbigniew Seifert, Curt Cress
• Sunshower (Atlantic, 1978) with Jan Akkerman, Ray Gomez
• Joachim Kühn & Jan Akkerman Live (Sandra Music, 1979)
• Nightline New York (Sandra Music, 1981) with Michael Brecker, Eddie Gomez, Billy Hart, Bob Mintzer, Mark Nauseef
• Let's Be Generous (CMP, 1991) with Mark Nauseef, Tony Newton, Miroslav Tadic
• Colors (1996) with Ornette Coleman
• Universal Time (2001) with Chris Potter, Scott Colley, Horacio 'El Negro' Hernandez, Michel Portal
• Bach Now - Live (2002) with Thomanerchor
• Poison (2005) with Jean-Paul Celea, Wolfgang Reisinger
• Journey to the Center of an Egg (Enja, 2005) with Rabih Abou-Khalil, Jarrod Cagwin
• Kalimba (ACT, 2007) with Majid Bekkas, Ramón López

As sideman[link]

• Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet with Joachim Kühn: Live at Kosmos, Berlin (ITM, 1965)
• The Rolf Kühn Group: The Day After (BASF/MPS, 1972) featuring Phil Woods
• The Rolf Kühn Group: Connection 74 (BASF/MPS, 1974) featuring Randy Brecker
• Association P.C. (Pierre Courbois) and Jeremy Steig: Mama Kuku (Live) (BASF/MPS, 1974)
• Coryell - Catherine - Kühn: Live! (Elektra, 1980)

References[link]

Heinz Strunk in November 2008

Heinz Strunk, legal name Mathias Halfpape (born 17 May 1962 in Hamburg) is a German entertainer, author, and member of Studio Braun. Strunk's comedy ranges from goofy prank calls to biting political and cultural satire, often involving music.

Perhaps Strunk's most recognizable piece comes from a Studio Braun album full of prank calls made in and around the city of Hamburg. Strunk, playing on homonyms that the English language does not share with German, calls a store which supplies coal for coal-burning stoves. Using the confusion in the German language between the word for that coal and that of cocaine, he tries to order cocaine from the confused man and hilarity ensues. In another prank call, Strunk calls a pastoral resident of the province of Saxony where some residents have unique accents. Claiming to be from "Sachsenhilfe Hamburg," a fictional organization that would translate to Hamburg's Help for Saxony, he offers free voice classes to help the country residents "correct" their dialect. Again, hilarity ensues. Studio Braun and Strunk have 3 such LPs chock-full of prank phone calls.

Most recently and famously, Strunk released the song "Komputerfreak," which takes a serious look at the washed-up lives and addictive/compulsive personalities of those who spend large amounts of time using computers.

Strunk is the author of the comical memoir "Fleisch ist mein Gemüse," in English, "Meat is my Vegetable."

External links[link]

• Heinz Strunk in the German National Library catalogue (German)
• http://www.heinzstrunk.de (Flash)

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Gerd Dudek (born Gerhard Rochus Dudek, 28 September 1938) is a German jazz tenor saxophonist, soprano saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist.

Dudek studied clarinet privately and attended music school in the 1950s before joining a big band led by his brother Ossi until 1958. During the early 1960s, Dudek played in the Berliner Jazz Quintet, in Karl Blume's group and in Kurt Edelhagen's orchestra until 1965. He then became interested in free music and joined Manfred Schoof's quintet. Dudek took part in the first sessions of The Globe Unity Orchestra in 1966, and played with them at various time into the 1980s. He also worked with many other European free musicians and composers, including Alexander von Schlippenbach, Loek Dikker and The Waterland Ensemble And European Jazz Quintet.^[1] He is best known for his work with Manfred Schoof, Wolfgang Dauner, the Globe Unity Orchestra, Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Albert Mangelsdorff, Don Cherry and George Russell.^[2]

References[link]

1. ^ Ron Wynn, Allmusic
2. ^ Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley, Jazz: The Rough Guide, The Rough Guides, 1995, p. 181 (ISBN 1-8582-8137-7)

External links[link]

• Dudeks FMP releases

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