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 remarked as he listened to a tape of the session: "I think that you can hear on this tape, what jazz is all about." What did he mean? Was he reacting to criticisms of his long-form ...

Music by Keith Jarrett and Joni Mitchell set Trajal Harrell and his dancers in motion, but this pandemic-era piece feels mannered instead of spontaneous. By Brian Seibert With a premiere by Tiffany ...

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 ...

John Magaro as Keith Jarrett in a scene from Köln 75. (Courtesy of Zeitgeist Films / Kino Lorber) For a lot of years, Vera Brandes couldn’t listen. Not once had she heard the bestselling solo jazz ...

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 ...

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, ...