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 ...

Keith Jarrett's 1975 Köln Concert, how it almost didn't happen, and how one formidable German teenager, Vera Brandes, breaks ...

Read our review of The Köln Concert from the Zürich Dance Ensemble, a jazz history-inspired exploration of creativity and ...

Magaro plays legendary jazz musician Keith Jarrett as he prepares for his famous, entirely improvised concert in Cologne in 1975. The recording of the concert would become the best-selling solo ...

Behind one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert, how it almost didn’t happen, and how one formidable German teenager, Vera Brandes, breaks every ...

Her fifth concert involves her taking an enormous gamble: she books the 1,400-seat Cologne Opera House for a concert of improvised music by Jarrett. All does not go to plan.

“Köln 75” portrays the music promoter Vera Brandes, who organised Keith Jarrett's famous “Köln Concert” in 1975, with great enthusiasm and humour. Biopics are not free jazz, rather the opposite.

At 18, Brandes organized a concert in Cologne for jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. The recording of Jarrett's totally improvised performance became the best-selling solo jazz album of all time and the ...

The Köln Concert, 50 years old this year, is the stuff of legend. A mix-up meant that the jazz pianist Keith Jarrett nearly didn’t take the stage at the Cologne Opera House on the night of ...