Total Space
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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 benefited from an atmosphere of artistic freedom, something that I am still thankful for. MPS was the first German record company that recorded solely jazz and was open for experiments and new fields 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
Oscar Peterson
George Duke
Alphonse Mouzon
The Rolf Kuhn Group
Dexter Gordon & Slide Hampton
The Dave Pike Set
Oscar Peterson
George Duke
Julia Hulsmann Octet
Chantal Acda; Bruno Bavota; Pavel Karlik; Niels van Heertum; Phill Brown; Gerd Van Mulders; Beatrij
Stanley Clarke
Weather Report
Stephane Galland; Lucia Pires; Louise van den Heuvel
Robin Verheyen; Robyn Schulkowsky; Goeyvaerts String Trio
Rima Khcheich; Maarten Ornstein; Juan Rodriguez; Tony Overwater; Joost Lijbaart
Markus Conrad; Caspar van Meel; Afra Mussawisade; Christoph Konig