On January 24, 1975, Keith Jarrett gave a solo piano performance at the Opera House in Cologne, Germany. The concert lasted a little over an hour, it was entirely improvised, and it was recorded and ...
Half a century ago, Keith Jarrett played a legendary show at the Cologne Opera House, a live recording of which later sold millions of copies. Today, visitors still remember the magical evening. Many ...
“Köln 75” starts with Brandes meeting Ronnie Scott, a British jazz musician and owner of a London jazz club. Scott asks Brandes to arrange some concerts for him in Germany and so, from that chance ...
In 1975, Vera Brandes, then an 18-year-old student and part-time promoter, organized a concert for Keith Jarrett in Cologne, a recording of which became “The Köln Concert,” the best-selling solo jazz ...
Fifty years ago, acclaimed jazz pianist Keith Jarrett sat down at a worn-down practice piano that was mistakenly brought to the Cologne Opera House stage to play a concert of improvised music for more ...
The evening began with extraordinary anticipation as the Golden Hall filled to capacity, creating an atmosphere of reverent expectation for what many in the audience understood would be a rare ...
Keith Jarrett, Concerts in Bregenz and Munchen (ECM, three discs). The advent of Keith Jarrett’s solo piano performances on ECM (the most famous, of course, was the “Koln Concerts”) was one of the ...
In the mid-1970s Keith Jarrett wasn’t just a popular jazz pianist. He was a genuine phenomenon so astoundingly productive that he put his era-defining “American Quartet” with saxophonist Dewey Redman, ...
It was 50 years ago this week he booked his first concert: the Keith Jarrett Quartet at Salle Claude Champagne. Montreal ...