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Behind one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert, how it almost didn’t ha | dG1fQzIyNDd4VVFEZHc
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00:00Will Keith play?
00:30How old are you?
00:34Twenty-five.
00:41I'm a concert manager.
00:43I'm booking a tour for the Ronnie Spot Trio.
00:47If you're in your life, you have to hit a different path.
00:53He's a dentist.
00:55What do you think, where are you going?
00:59In Berlin, I saw Keith Jarrett play for the first time.
01:08I'm going to open a concert for Keith Jarrett.
01:12I'm going to open the hall.
01:15Jazz is museum music, jazz is tour.
01:18No jazz concert, a Keith Jarrett concert.
01:21Complete improvised freedom.
01:23No one knows where this is headed.
01:25Even if this was the last instrument on the world, Keith will not play on it.
01:34Keith Jarrett will not play on the Kölner opera on a broken piano.
01:39A piano?
01:40Come on, come on!
01:41Come on, come on, come on!
01:43Artists like Keith show up once a generation.
01:48They will make sure that's it.
01:50They can't do that.
01:52They can't do that.
01:53I have no choice.
01:54Music can win this out.
01:57Maybe that's what good music can do.
02:00You are Vera Brandes.
02:05But if anyone finds a way here, then you are it.
02:09Tell us a little bit!
02:16Come on!
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