Joachim Kühn Band – Don't Stop Me Now (1979) (24/96 Vinyl Rip)

This record will disappoint you, if you are expecting Fusion Jazz from one of the best German keyboarders, but it will delight you, if you can accept that Kühn tries his luck with some mainstream rock here. Good songwriting, excellent playing and production. Especially the solos show the artistic background of the musicians, they make other pop-rock bands feel ashamed. Very clean record and rip, never released on CD.

Biography from Wiki:
Kühn was a musical prodigy and made his debut as a concert pianist, having studied classical piano and composition with Arthur Schmidt-Elsey. Influenced by his elder brother, clarinetist Rolf Kühn, he simultaneously got interested in jazz. In 1961 he became a professional jazz musician. With a trio of his own, founded in 1964, he presented the first free jazz in the GDR. In 1966 he left the country and settled in Hamburg. Together with his brother he played at the Newport Jazz Festival and recorded with Jimmy Garrison for Bob Thiele's Impulse! Records.
Kühn has lived in Paris since 1968, and worked with Don Cherry, Karl Berger, Slide Hampton, Phil Woods, Michel Portal, Barre Phillips, Eje Thelin, Ray Lema, Hellmut Hattler, and Jean-Luc Ponty. As a member of Pierre Courbois' Association P.C., he turned to electronic keyboards. During the second half of the 70's he lived in California and joined the West Coast fusion scene and recorded with Alphonse Mouzon, Billy Cobham, Michael Brecker, and Eddie Gomez.
Having settled near Paris again, he played in an acoustic trio with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Daniel Humair since 1985. In the summer of 1996, he joined Ornette Coleman for two concerts at the Verona and Leipzig festivals, which opened the way for his Diminished Augmented System. More recently he has toured with Rabih Abou-Khalil.

Tracks
01. Time out 03:52
02. I'm leaving you 04:09
03. Groundshaker 04:19
04. On the mirror 04:14
05. Step right up 04:43
06. Summerset 07:22
07. Jet lag 04:28
Total time: 33:04

Musicians
Joachim Kühn: pianos, keyboards, synthesizers (ex Association PC, Toto Blanke, Information, Walter Quintus)
John McBurnie: vocals
Tony Newton: bass, vocals
Glenn Symmonds: drums, vocals
Raymond Gomez: guitars (ex Pop Tops, Stanley Clarke)
Recorded and mixed at Kendun Recorders, Burbank, CA, USA