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 ...

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 ...

Keith Jarrett’s 1975 double album, The Köln Concert, recorded at the Cologne Opera House earlier that year, sold over four million copies. If you flipped through the album stacks of just about anyone ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music by Keith Jarrett and Joni Mitchell set Trajal Harrell and his dancers in motion, but this pandemic-era piece feels mannered instead of ...

“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 ...

I've always thought that despite its origins as a January 1975 solo piano concert in Koln, Germany, it was the most commercially calculated marathon soliloquy Jarrett ever gave--the one with the ...

As Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert celebrates its 50th anniversary, internationally acclaimed choreographer Trajal Harrell brings to life the best-selling solo piano recording of all time in ...