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 ...

Mala Emde plays the spitfire teenage promoter who convinced Jarrett to perform on a broken piano, and in doing so made jazz history. On January 24, 1975, Keith Jarrett gave a solo piano performance at ...

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 ...

It just so happens that two of the most poignant jazz ballads—in my opinion—were released in the same year. I'm not talking about throw-back masterpieces, such as Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight" or ...

Mala Emde plays Vera Brandes, the 18-year-old music promoter without whom Keith Jarrett's celebrated piano recording, ‘The Köln Concert,’ might not have happened. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Ido ...

Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert album, drawn from a single concert at Germany’s Cologne Opera House on January 24, 1975, enjoys cult status and is one of the bestselling jazz albums of all time with ...

EXCLUSIVE: Zeitgeist Films, in association with Kino Lorber, has acquired from Bankside Films all U.S. rights to Ido Fluk's Köln 75, which tells the inside story behind Keith Jarrett's fabled ...

Fifty years ago, pianist Keith Jarrett created one of the most iconic records of the era and the best-selling solo piano album ever. But “The Köln Concert” almost didn’t happen. On Jan. 24, 1975, Mr.

The latest by jazz legend Branford Marsalis, "Belonging," is a full-album interpretation of the 1974 Keith Jarrett record of the same name. How many albums are so good, you wouldn't skip a single ...

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 ...