Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a group leader and solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, including Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.
The Köln Concert is a live recording of solo piano improvisations performed by Keith Jarrett at the Opera House in Cologne on 24 January 1975. The double-vinyl album was released in 1975 by ECM. It became the best-selling solo album in jazz history and the best-selling piano album with sales of around 4 million. According to music critic Tom Hull, the album "cemented his reputation as the top pianist of his generation".
Paris Concert is a live solo piano album by American pianist Keith Jarrett, recorded on October 17, 1988 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris and released by ECM Records in April 1990.
Sun Bear Concerts is a five-concert album compilation of solo piano performances by Keith Jarrett that took place during his November 1976 tour in Japan. It was originally released as a ten-LP set in 1978. It was rereleased in 1989 as a six-CD box set that added encores from three of the concerts, totalling 6:37:46 of music.
Radiance is a double-album by American pianist Keith Jarrett recorded in October 2002 in Japan at two different concerts—Osaka and Tokyo —and released by ECM in May 2005. In April 2006, a video recording of the live performance at Tokyo concert was released as Tokyo Solo.
Paris / London: Testament is a live solo piano album by American pianist Keith Jarrett, recorded at the Salle Pleyel in Paris November 26, 2008 and the Royal Festival Hall in London the next week on December first, and released as a three CD set on ECM in October the following year.
Yesterdays is a live jazz album by Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette recorded in concert on April 30, 2001 at the Metropolitan Festival Hall in Tokyo and also at the sound-check recording of April 24, 2001 at the Orchard Hall in Tokyo that would give way to Always Let Me Go. It was released by ECM Records in 2009.
The Out-of-Towners is a live album by the jazz trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette, recorded at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich on July 28, 2001 and released on ECM in August 2004.
Always Let Me Go: Live in Tokyo is a live album by American pianist Keith Jarrett's "Standards Trio" featuring Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, recorded at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan in Japan in April 2001 and released on ECM the following year.
My Foolish Heart is a double live album by American pianist Keith Jarrett's "Standards Trio" featuring Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 22, 2001 and released on ECM six years later in October 2007.
Hymns/Spheres is a solo double album by Keith Jarrett recorded at the Benedictine Abbey in Ottobeuren, West Germany, September 1976 and released on ECM two months later in November. The album consists of improvisations on the massive Karl Joseph Riepp "Trinity" Baroque pipe organ, "the larger of the two Karl Joseph Riepp (1710–1775) organs at the Benedictine Abbey in Ottobeuren."
Rio is a live double-album of solo piano improvisations by Keith Jarrett, recorded at the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro on April 9, 2011 and released on ECM in November that same year.
Sleeper is a double album by Keith Jarrett's "European Quartet" recorded on April 16, 1979 in Tokyo, and released on ECM 33 years later in 2012.
Somewhere is a live album by Keith Jarrett's "Standards Trio," recorded in Switzerland on July 11, 2009 and released on ECM in May 2013.
Creation is a solo piano album by American pianist and composer Keith Jarrett containing music selected and sequenced from improvised solo concerts that took place in Japan, Canada, and Europe in April–July 2014." It was released by ECM Records in May 2015.
Hamburg '72 is an album by Keith Jarrett with his first trio, Charlie Haden on double-bass, and Paul Motian on drums. It was recorded live in West Germany on June 14, 1972 and released on the ECM label in 2014 when both Motian and Haden had already died.
La Fenice is a live album of a solo piano performance by Keith Jarrett recorded at Teatro La Fenice theater in Italy in 2006, produced by Veneto Jazz / Giuseppe Mormile and released on ECM Records 12 years later, in 2018. According to ECM, its release was "timely" as the 62nd International Festival of Contemporary Music of the 'Biennale di Venezia' honoured Keith Jarrett with its Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
Munich 2016 is a solo piano album by American pianist and composer Keith Jarrett containing music recorded live on July 16, 2016 at Philharmonic Hall, Munich during a European tour. It was released by ECM Records on two CDs in November 2019.
Budapest Concert is a solo piano album by American pianist and composer Keith Jarrett containing music recorded live on July 3, 2016 at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest during a European tour. It was released by ECM Records on two CDs in October 2020. Jarrett viewed the concert as a sort of homecoming due to his ancestry, which reaches back to Hungary.
Bordeaux Concert is a solo piano album by Keith Jarrett containing music recorded live on July 6, 2016, at L’Auditorium de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, during a European tour. It was released by ECM Records on CD in September 2022.
