Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert at 50
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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Monday, November 24, 2025: Echoes Program 2547A
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Aerosol | Exposure | Leave |
| 0:06:00 | Azam Ali | Autumn of Goodbye | Synesthesia |
| 0:11:26 | Aeseaes | White Noise | Opia |
| 0:14:55 | Marissa Nadler | It Hits Harder | New Radiations |
| 0:19:56 | Jeff Pearce | By Moonlight | Night Thoughts |
| 0:23:13 | Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe | Flower Woman | Liminal |
| 0:29:30 | Jim Kimo West and Michael Whalen | Malibu Breeze (excerpt) | Two Shores |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | 50th Anniversary of Keith Jarrett’s The Koln Concert | ||
| 0:30:00 | Keith Jarrett – Thoughts in Sound | ||
| 0:37:06 | Keith Jarrett | Köln January 24 1975 Part II B | The Koln Concert |
| 0:54:06 | Keith Jarrett | Köln January 24 1975 Part II C | The Koln Concert |
| 0:59:00 | I Think Like Midngiht | Echo Celeste (Excerpt) | Warm Seclusion Structure |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Deuter | Magic Island | Terra Magica |
| 1:06:00 | Larkenlyre | Dark Forest | While We Were There |
| 1:12:17 | Azam Ali | Green and Gold | Synesthesia |
| 1:15:34 | The American Dollar | The Slow Wait Part One (Dear Gravity Rework) | XX: Greatest Hits Reimagined |
| 1:19:31 | Blue Tomorrows | Santa Cruz (Memory Blues) | Weather Forever |
| 1:22:29 | Khruangbin | August Twelve ii | The universe Smiles Upon You II |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Tori Amos | Knocking | The Music of Tori and the Muses |
| 1:32:03 | deepspace | Micro-Particle Refiners SFPA8 | Water Planets |
| 1:34:11 | Kristin Hoffmann | Release Me Reveal Me | RainShine |
| 1:42:30 | break | ||
| 1:43:19 | Leandrul | Choose | Choose |
| 1:49:11 | Still Corners | The Crying Game | The Crying Game (Single) |
| 1:53:58 | Maps | Chapter Five | Welcome to the Tudor Gate |
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