The Most Influential Piano Album Ever-Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert at 50: The Echoes interview
Keith Jarrett, Venezia, Teatro Malibran, 24/07/2001. Concerto in trio con Gary Peacock e Jack De Johnette
Nella foto: Keith Jarrett durante le prove
Today we’re celebrating another 50th Anniversary. This one is the 1975 release of The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett. This is the album that unleashed the solo piano boom, especially in New Age and neo-classical music, that is still going today, for better or worse.
Keith Jarrett: All pianists thought then that they should so something solo whether or not they had the vaguest notion that to play solo is different than playing without a rhythm section which is what so many of them sounded like. And now so many of them sound like the Kohn Concert has permanently lobotomized something. I’m just glad that didn’t happen to me.
That‘s Keith Jarrett, we’ll hear him talking about the Köln Concert, improvisation and why he sometimes sings along, kinda, with his playing. We’ll also hear a big chunk of The Köln Concert. It’s all ahead on Echoes from PRX.
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