Birthdays are always special occasions. When one is young, the celebration is about looking towards the future. As one gets older, the occasion marks the acknowledgement of life's accomplishments. As ...

Pianist Keith Jarrett's best work is with his Standards Trio, with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette—though it probably wouldn't be hard to get an argument favoring his solo concert ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Given Keith Jarrett’s decades-long tradition of either performing solo ...

Today it's the best-selling piano and solo jazz album of all time. But 50 years ago, Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert nearly didn't happen. Between the substandard piano, an exhausting car journey, ...

Under The Influence is a new revival of a very old Stereogum franchise, in which we ask artists to talk about the inspirations behind their albums. From other music, to film, to novels, to stray notes ...

Did you know that one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time was played on a very broken piano? It was made by Keith Jarrett and it's called the Köln Concert album. Jarrett has had a long and ...

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, ...

In his liner note to “Slowly: Song for Keith Jarrett” (Sunnyside), Mr. Haidu confesses that he just couldn’t relate when his father first played him “The Köln Concert,“ the 1975 release that ...