Jazz Articles about Keith Jarrett

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Keith Jarrett – My Mother’s Favorite Jazz Pianist

by Lee Whiteman
May 24, 2026

My mother passed away on July 9, 2003. She was a classically trained pianist with not much interest in jazz. She taught music at PS 136 in Queens, New York, and she put up with my musical taste. She tolerated jazz pianists like Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, and Les McCann. My father, sister, and I did give her a copy of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha. She did hear Eubie Blake, but I do not think she ever heard Oscar ...

Film Review

Köln 75

by Maciej Stasiowski
April 19, 2026

Köln 75One Two Films / Extreme Emotions / Gretchenfilm / MMC Studios Köln GmbHDIrector: Ido Fluk2025 There is a scene mid-way through Ido Fluk's whimsical dramedy that plays like an European art-house tune. Three figures are traveling at night in a tiny Renault 4. Keith Jarrett (musician, played by John Magaro) is in the front seat, Manfred Eicher (label owner/producer--Alexander Scheer) at the wheel, and Michael Watts (with Michael Chernus embodying the universe's idea of ...

Chats with Cats

The Sync Director: Eric Meyers

by B.D. Lenz
April 10, 2026

As an independent jazz artist with more than a dozen releases, I've promoted my recordings in all the usual ways, hoping to spread my music and eventually recoup the money I'd invested. Early on, though, I learned about “music libraries"--companies that house vast catalogs of music, soundscapes, and sound effects for film and television production. I mailed CDs to several of them and largely forgot about it. Years later, checks started arriving in the mail. At first, they ...

Album Review

Keith Jarrett: The Köln Concert

Read "The Köln Concert" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
January 13, 2026

Keith Jarrett thrives on feeling embattled; he often finds that conflict stimulates his creativity. Anyone who has attended his live performances can palpably feel this tension. However, the difficulties surrounding the 1975 Köln Concert have passed into legend, creating a scenario where exhaustion, insomnia, and equipment failure conspired to alter music history. When Keith Jarrett arrived at the Cologne Opera House, he was confronted with a crisis. Instead of the requested Bosendorfer concert grand, he was presented with ...

Film Review

Köln 75

by Paul Reynolds
October 16, 2025

Köln 75One Two Films / Extreme Emotions / Gretchenfilm / MMC Studios Köln GmbHDIrector: Ido Fluk2025 November, 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of The Köln Concert (ECM Records, 1975), the live recording by Keith Jarrett that stands as the biggest-selling solo album--and piano album--in jazz history. To mark the occasion cinematically, Köln 75 hit select U.S. movie screens in October, 2025. The film defies expectations and takes risks, almost as much as ...

Extended Analysis

At The Deer Head Inn: The Complete Recordings

by Joshua Weiner
September 6, 2025

Pianist Keith Jarrett is the only artist with his own subheading on the main menu of ECM Records' new US website. That attests to his fruitful association, beginning in 1971 and continuing to the present day, with the independent German label known for its dedication to artistic freedom and beautiful sound. Though a series of strokes has sadly silenced Jarrett since 2018, ECM continues to enrich his discography with both new releases (a series of 2016 European concert recordings, including ...

Album Review

Keith Jarrett: New Vienna

Read "New Vienna" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti
July 7, 2025

Puntuale, con una cadenza all'incirca annuale, la ECM pubblica un nuovo inedito di Keith Jarrett, estraendo dai propri archivi la registrazione di un concerto tenuto dal pianista a Vienna nel corso del suo ultimo tour europeo del 2016. Con questo sono 4 i concerti da quel tour pubblicati ufficialmente, dei 5 complessivi (manca all'appello il solo concerto di Roma, mentre lo stesso anno Jarrett si era precedentemente esibito negli States in tre diversi concerti, tuttora inediti). Per gli appassionati, una ...