For a lot of years, Vera Brandes couldn’t listen. Not once had she heard the bestselling solo jazz album of all time—Keith ...

I’ve always been a stranger,” Ido Fluk told me when I met him in a near-empty conference room in a sleek, Nordic-designed hotel in Berlin this past February. It was the afternoon after the Berlin Film ...

Keith Jarrett improvised the best-selling solo piano performance of all time, and so did the 18-year-old girl who scrambled to put the show together. Which is to say it’s no wonder that Jarrett, who ...

Fifty years ago, acclaimed jazz pianist Keith Jarrett sat down at a worn-down practice piano that was mistakenly brought to the Cologne Opera House stage to play a concert of improvised music for more ...

Photo: Köln 75 stars Mala Emde as concert promoter Vera Brandes. Photo courtesy of Zeitgeist Films / Provided by official ...

Vera Brandes on Köln 75 article by Leo Sidran, published on October 24, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Radio & Podcasts articles ...

The true story behind the greatest solo concert in jazz history, this is Keith Jarrett's legendary 1975 Köln Concert — as organized by 18-year-old rebel music promoter Vera Brandes. Fun, inventive and ...

NEW YORK — Jack DeJohnette, a celebrated jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis on his landmark 1970 fusion album and collaborated with Keith Jarrett and many other greats of the genre, has died at ...

Jack DeJohnette, a beloved jazz drummer who excelled in bands fronted by Miles Davis, Charles Lloyd and Keith Jarrett, died ...

The American jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette, a major figure in modern jazz who collaborated with Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett, has died at 83, his management has said.