How Keith Jarrett Performed on a Damaged Piano & Turned a Doubtlessly Disastrous Live performance Into the Greatest-Promoting Piano Album of All Time (1975)

Close to­ly fifty years in the past, the cel­e­brat­ed younger pianist Kei­th Jar­rett arrived within the West Ger­man metropolis of Köln (guess­ter recognized in Eng­lish as Cologne). Hav­ing simply come off a 500-mile-long street journey from Switzer­land, the place he’d performed a con­cert the pre­vi­ous day, he was left with naked­ly any time to recov­er…