50 great moments in jazz: Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert

This record-breaking album still gets a chilly reception from jazz fans. But the inspiration behind its inception lives onThirty-six years ago, Keith Jarrett, the now 65-year-old pianist and composer from Allentown, Pennsylvania, crossed a chasm usually unbridgeable for either jazz or classical performers – and this virtuoso happens to be both. Jarrett's message from the keyboard took off from the small enclave of an informed and dedicated minority audience, and reached the huge worldwide cons...

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