Joachim Kühn (born March 15, 1944) is a German pianist who appeared on more than 400 recordings across six decades. During the 1970s, he released multiple jazz-funk albums on MPS/BASF and Atlantic. After early work with his older brother Rolf Kühn, Joachim debuted with the 1968 Impulse! release Impressions of New York. He collaborated with […]
Gary Wright (April 26, 1943 – September 4, 2023) was an American singer, musician, and songwriter who served as the co-vocalist and keyboardist in Spooky Tooth during two three-album periods between 1968 and 1974. After leaving the group, he launched a solo career centered on keyboard-based production and spiritual lyrical themes. His third solo album, […]
Jan Hammer is a Czech jazz/rock keyboardist, composer, and producer with a sixty-year musical career. As a teenager, Hammer led a jazz trio and cut his first album, Malma Maliny, in 1968 for MPS. After two years in the US, he joined the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, which made the seminal jazz-rock albums The Inner Mounting […]
Patrick Moraz is a Swiss keyboardist and composer who emerged in the post-psych act Mainhorse, which issued a 1971 album on Polydor. He then teamed with the rhythm section of The Nice in the super-trio Refugee, which issued a self-titled album on Charisma in 1974. Months later, Yes hired him as Rick Wakeman‘s replacement for […]
Bernard Wright (November 16, 1963 — May 19, 2022) was an American jazz-funk keyboardist from Queens who cut the 1981–83 Arista albums ‘Nard and Funky Beat, followed by the 1985 Manhattan Records release Mr. Wright. Background Bernard Wright was born on November 16, 1963, in Jamaica, Queens, New York, to Lessie Mae Brewington and Charles […]
