Joachim Kühn - Voodoo Sense (CD)

Release Date: 08/30/13An intoxicating brew of Afro-centric jazz, rhythmically dynamic, free spirited and emotionally charged. Feat. saxophone legend Archie Shepp.With his openmindedness and his sense for the magic of music, Joachim Kühn, the most eminent international pianist in the history of German jazz, is not only one of the greatest experimenters but also one of the most important integrative figures in jazz. 'Voodoo Sense' reconfirms this yet again: an album on which he again acts as a catalyst, bringing together people and their music that had previously lived in entirely different worlds. On 'Voodoo Sense' Kühn revives an association that has persisted for almost 50 years, ties it together with his current band and then has both set sail for new shores, navigated by young African musicians: It was 1967 in New York's Village Vanguard club that Kühn first experienced the saxophonist Archie Shepp live. 'The 'New Thing' that he introduced into jazz was the expression of exactly