Almost two years ago, pianist Keith Jarrett shared publicly that he had suffered two strokes in 2018 and would likely never perform again. That revelation, which I reported in a piece for the New York ...
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 ...
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 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music by Keith Jarrett and Joni Mitchell set Trajal Harrell and his dancers in motion, but this pandemic-era piece feels mannered instead of ...
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, ...
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 ...