Now 70, Kühn's achievements are rightly being celebrated by the ACT label, and although it is doubtful that they will come up with a more rounded statement of the pianist's stature than this, we nevertheless hope they do. The recipient of an ECHO Jazz Lifetime Achievement in 2011, Kühn's musical curiosity has taken him from the outside to the inside, from Ornette Coleman and Archie Shepp to Renaissance music and Bach. Add a little world music-meets-jazz, which produced another ECHO award (in 2012), and the breadth of Kühn's musical vision begins to come clear. Perhaps, with the benefit of hindsight, his trio with Humair and Jenny-Clark will prove to be his most enduring achievement, which although formed in the 1970s was by the 1980s unique in jazz since there was nothing quite like it. They were dubbed “Un trio explosive!” by the French jazz press for good reason, they were exactly that as the six tracks on CD1 give adequate testimony. Six previously unreleased tracks from JazzFest Berlin from 1987 and 1995 attest to the heights European jazz was achieving back then, albeit unnoticed and unacknowledged by the British jazz press, ears more attuned to the latest thing from across the Atlantic. It only goes to show what they were missing back then. The album Europeana comprises CD2 and was recorded in 1994. It is one of the singular achievements of the ACT label. Arranged by Mike Gibbs, Kühn makes his presence felt throughout, even when not in solo. Each of the album's 13 tracks portrays the distinctive jazz ‘sound’ of a European country captured through the prism of Gibb's brilliant arranging. Speaking about the album some years later, the critically acclaimed German saxophonist Christof Lauer (who features on the album) observed – “In Europe we have a very personal jazz language, each country, which is captured on Europeana which is why it special” – indeed, today it is one of the key albums of European jazz.