LP – Black Vinyl
Reissue of The Rolf Kühn Group‘s funky 1975 fusion album Total Space, featuring Joachim Kühn, Philip Catherine, Gerd Dudek, Albert Mangelsdorff and Daniel Humair. For a German jazz musician to find international recognition as a major player has been and remains a rarity. Clarinettist Rolf Kühn belongs to this elite class. No one sounds like him on the clarinet; warm, round and masterful, his tone remains unmistakable no matter what style he may be playing at any given moment. His play resonates with a maturity and wisdom gathered from a long and rich life of musical experiences. At MPS, Rolf Kühn was allowed free rein to choose the team for the recordings and so he decided to get Wolfgang Hirschmann on board, one of the most interesting sound engineers in jazz at that time. Having a free jazz background, Kühn breaks out in a new direction towards jazz fusion with this album.
“My recordings for the MPS label always bene ted from an atmosphere of artistic freedom, something that I am still thankful for. MPS was the rst German record company that recorded solely jazz and was open for experiments and new elds of music. For “Total Space” I was allowed to try out new things like having two drummers, Daniel Humair and Kaspar Winding and to invite completely freethinking players like Albert Mangelsdorff or Gerd Dudek to the recording.” – Rolf Kühn, 2019
Tracklisting:
Side A
1) Uncle Archibald (06:40) – Kühn, Rolf Group
2) Buzz (05:15) – Kühn, Rolf Group
3) Lopes (07:25) – Kühn, Rolf Group
Side B
1) Total space (07:55) – Kühn, Rolf Group
2) Miss Maggie (08:24) – Kühn, Rolf Group