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Rolf Kühn

clarinet, saxophone · 1929–2022 · Cologne

German clarinetist and saxophonist, older brother of pianist Joachim Kühn, who lived in the United States from 1956 to 1959, where John Hammond compared him favorably to Benny Goodman. He died in Berlin in 2022 at age 92.

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