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 ...

You don’t have to know anything about jazz to grasp the importance of Keith Jarrett’s legendary musical talent. The ...

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 ...

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, ...

How many albums are so good, you wouldn't skip a single track. One of today's greatest ambassadors of jazz, Branford Marsalis, fell in love with an album Keith Jarrett made in 1974 with three ...

Fifty years ago today, 18-year-old Vera Brandes organized a concert for jazz pianist Keith Jarrett in Cologne, West Germany, which went on to make music history: a recording of the concert became the ...