The Köln Concert (Live)
Keith Jarrett
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The Köln Concert, Pt. 1 | Keith Jarrett | 26:01 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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The Köln Concert, Pt. 2a | Keith Jarrett | 14:54 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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The Köln Concert, Pt. 2b | Keith Jarrett | 18:14 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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The Köln Concert, Pt. 2c | Keith Jarrett | 6:56 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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iTunes Review
If you’ve ever been curious over the fuss jazz piano fans make over Keith Jarrett, this album is the reason. This over 30-year-old concert, spectacularly recorded by ECM owner/svengali Manfred Eicher, remains the fresh jewel it was the day it came out. One long improvisation that Jarrett played on January 24th, 1975, in the opera house in Köln, Germany, and which was later divided into four unnamed parts to fit on LP, it is one of the most extraordinary solo virtuoso performances ever recorded. The ideas literally pour from his fingertips, his crisp technique creates melodic figures and lines that intertwine and intersect; his speed matched only by his lyricism. His occasional sighs and joyous exclamations only add to the sense that he too was surprised at the mass of music gushing out of him. The raw rainbow of emotional and musical colors here is nearly blinding. The concept of music being prismatic, that it can mean and be almost anything depending upon what the listener brings to it from his or her own experience, may have begun right here. Forever astonishing after all these years.
Customer Reviews
Koln Concerts
I was one of those original pot-smoking college students that bought this back in 1999. Now I am a nurse who works with the dying. This music, played frequently, has gotten me from there to here, and the chords and workings of it never cease to make me shiver and wonder how something could be so painfully beautiful.
The Best
If I could only own one CD this would be it.
Amazing
I bought this album in the original vinyl form (dating myself) in 1984. I don't know from music, but omigosh this was just amazing. As a strictly pop-rock teenager Jarrett was a radical departure from my norm and I couldn't get enough. Now at, umm, a bit older, I still find the work utterly compelling, something you want to listen to very closely so you don't miss anything. Buy it, because this music will last you at least 22 years!
Biography
Born: May 08, 1945 in Allentown, PA
Genre: Jazz
Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s
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- Genres: Jazz, Music, Classical, Modern Composition
- Released: Jan 24, 1975
- ℗ 1975 ECM Records GmbH under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
