Max Bien Kahn Max Bien Kahn New Orleans Max Bien Kahn lives in New Orleans, where he writes songs and performs them with the Martians. Originally from San Francisco, he has spent the last decade in his adopted home-town playing traditional jazz with Tuba Skinny and collaborating with other songwriters like Esther Rose, Duff Thompson, Steph Green, and others featured on Mashed Potato Records Vol 1 and 2.