Kuh#4 | ja

Following a youthful decade of producing beats between New York and Boston, 22 -year-old Bennett Kuhn has honed in on a sound that spans a wide range of contemporary electronic music. Ranging from futurist hip-hop a la Low End Theory through juke-inspired uptempo tracks and post-dubstep, Kuhn’s sound is raw, energetic and individual. Irrepressibly linked to Astro Nautico, the Brooklyn-based label/blog/party collective co-founded in 2009 by Kuhn along with Obey City and Paul Jones, his initial output came in the form of a series of self-released free EPs including ‘Quiet Nights EP’ (featuring reworks from the likes of Young Montana?,...

Born in Leipzig on March 15, 1944, Joachim Kühn gave his young-age debut as a concert pianist and studied classical piano and composition with Arthur Schmidt-Elsey. Influenced by his elder brother, clarinet-player Rolf Kühn, he simultaneously got interested in jazz and started leading traditional and mainstream combos very early. In 1961 he became a professional jazz musician. With a trio of his own, founded in 1964, he presented the first European-rooted free jazz in the GDR. In 1966 he did not return to his country from an international competition organized by Friedrich Gulda in Vienna. He settled in Hamburg where...

Paul Kuhn (1928) was a singer and pianist from Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany. He was best known for the schlager hits he sang in the 1950s, including Der Mann Am Klavier and Es Gibt Kein Bier Auf Hawaïï, but has also played jazz music throughout his life. Most recently, he was the front man of the jazz-oriented Paul Kuhn Trio. Paul Kuhn died in September 2013. .

Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau (September 11, 1786 – March 12, 1832) was a German-Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. Born in Germany, after losing his right eye in a street accident at the age of seven, he studied piano in Hamburg. His father, grandfather, and uncle were military oboists. Even though Kuhlau was born to a poor family, his parents managed to pay for pianoforte lessons. In 1810, he fled to Copenhagen to avoid conscription in the Napoleonic Army, which overwhelmed the many small principalities and duchies of northern Germany, and in 1813 he became a Danish citizen....