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Keith Jarrett
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Keith Jarrett, from Allentown, Pennsylvania, was a child prodigy at the piano and later named Bill Evans as one of his models. He played with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. At ECM he recorded solo records from 1971 and, from 1973, solo concerts that were entirely improvised. The concert at the Cologne Opera on 24 January 1975, organised by the seventeen-year-old Vera Brandes, was played on a poor grand piano; Jarrett therefore stayed in the middle register and with repeated figures. The Köln Concert became the best-selling solo album in jazz. He led an American and a European quartet, with Jan Garbarek, and from 1983 the Standards Trio. After two strokes in 2018 he can no longer play.
Listening
My Song · Keith Jarrett European Quartet, 1977
I Loves You Porgy · Keith Jarrett, 1998
Köln, January 24, 1975, Pt. II C · Keith Jarrett, 1975- Köln, January 24, 1975, Pt. I · Keith Jarrett, 1975
Discography
Studio albums
- 1968Life Between the Exit Signs
- 1968Restoration Ruin
- 1971Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett
- 1971The Mourning of a Star
- 1972Birth
- 1972Expectations
- 1972Facing You
- 1973Ruta and Daitya
- 1974Belonging
- 1974In the Light
- 1974Treasure Island
- 1975Backhand
- 1975Death and the Flower
- 1975El Juicio (The Judgement)
- 1975Luminessence
- 1975The Köln Concert
- 1976Arbour Zena
- 1976Hymns / Spheres
- 1976Mysteries
- 1976Shades
- 1977Byablue
- 1977Staircase
- 1977Tales of Another
- 1977The Survivors’ Suite
- 1978Bop‐Be
- 1978My Song
- 1980Sacred Hymns
- 1980The Celestial Hawk
- 1981Invocations / The Moth and the Flame
- 1984Tabula Rasa
- 1985Spheres
- 1986Spirits
- 1987Book of Ways
- 1988Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch I
- 1988Piano Concerto / Suite for Violin, Piano and Small Orchestra
- 1989Goldberg Variations
- 1989Mysterious Mountain / Lousadzak / Elegiac Symphony
- 1991Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Buch II
- 1991Recorder Sonatas
- 199224 Preludes and Fugues, op. 87
- 1992Bach Sonatas
- 1992Harrison: Seven Pastorales / Glanville-Hicks: Etruscan Concerto / Riley: June Buddhas from Mexico City Blues
- 1993The French Suites
- 19943 Sonaten für Viola da Gamba und Cembalo
- 1994Bridge of Light
- 1994Piano Concertos K. 271, 453, 466 / Adagio and Fugue K. 546
- 1994Piano Concertos K. 467, 488, 595 / Masonic Funeral Music K. 477 / Symphony in G minor K. 550
- 1995Suites for Keyboard
- 1999The Melody at Night, With You
- 2010Jasmine
- 2013No End
- 2013Six Sonatas for Violin and Piano
- 2014Last Dance
- 2014Ritual
- 2015Barber/Bartók
- 2023Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- 2025At The Deer Head Inn – The Complete Recordings
Other work
- 1977My Song · European Quartet
- 1983Standards, Vol. 1
In School of Rock
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- After Hours: Session 3NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- ECM sound Genre
European musicians such as the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and the German bassist Eberhard Weber appeared on ECM, but also Americans such as Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny.