A paean to Keith Jarrett
On January 24, 1975, 29-year-old pianist Keith Jarrett was having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. He arrived at the Köln Opera House in Cologne, Germany after driving directly from a gig in Lausanne, Switzerland the previous night, a seven-to-eight hour journey in a cramped Renault 4. He and ECM Records producer Manfred Eicher hadn’t slept in over 24 hours and Jarrett was dealing with back pain. The show was a last minute addition to an 11-date tour of Europe, promoted by an industrious 17-year-old concert producer named Vera Brandes.
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