Axel
Kühn
tenorsax,
soprano, flute
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Axel
Kühn, 35 Years old, is based in Munich, Germany. He started playing
flute at the age of 6 and changed to Tenorsaxophone during schooldays
playing with the local School-BigBand and small groups.
He studied saxophone at Musikhochschule Graz/Austria and obtained further
studies with Jürgen Seefelder in Munich. He made his start in the
scene joining the Harald Rüschenbaum Sax&Brass BigBand. (You can
hear him on the record "Rondo" H.R. Big Band).
He`s got a wide variety of musical interest from jazz to R & B and latin
music. Axel also played with german stars like Udo Lindenberg and Konstantin
Wecker.
In 1993 he recorded his first CD with trumpet-player Claus Reichstaller
"Conception" which is followed by the latest record "Conception Live"
(recorded 1998).
He performed with many jazz-artists like: Paquito d`Riviera, Sam Rivers,
Toots Thielemanns, Etta Cameron, Buddy de Franco, Charlie Mariano, George
Fame, John Pizzarelli, Conte Candoli, Alan Harris, James Morrison, Frank
Foster, Jens Winter, Don Menza ....
He worked for many Radiostations like: BR, SWR, HR, NDR, ZDF Jazzclub;
performed with the SWR BigBand, Thilo Wolf BigBand, Bamberg Symphony BigBand,
Bobby Burgess BigBand.
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