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.

Discography:

• Conception "Conception" MCCM - Records
• Conception "Live" CPR - Records
• Harald Rüschenbaum "Rondo"
• Antonio Koudele "Birdfly"
• Cocinando "Still Sun"
• Roykey "Creo Roots"
• SDR BigBand with Frank Foster
• Thilo Wolf BigBand

Tourdates 

with Al Porcino  
26.10.2001 Unterfahrt, München

with SWR BigBand   
30.9.2001 München  
9.10. Essen 
10.10. Nürnberg
11.10. Bielefeld  
13.10. Magdeburg 
14.10. Dresden

Ernst Jandl und das Saxophon:  
30.10. Heidelberg  
3.3.2002 Marktoberdorf

with Sprechakte X/treme ( Multimedia Performance )  
22.9. TUBE München
12.10 Frankfurt Buchmesse 
28.2 Luzern 
1.3. Zürich

mit Thilo Wolf  27.10. Köln

Contact and booking:
Axel Kühn
fon / fax + 49 - 89 - 540 72 109
mobil + 49 - 173 - 231 08 00