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THE KÖLN CONCERT

Keith Jarrett (ECM 1064)

Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert is the best-selling solo album in jazz history. Recorded in 1975 in Cologne, with Jarrett playing a baby grand delivered instead of the Bosendorfer 290 Imperial that should have been on the stage for this live performance, the sound was captured by Neumann U-67 valved condenser microphones and a Telefunken M-5 tape machine. It has now been re-released on 180-gram vinyl and more than 40 years later, Jarrett’s exhilarating performance still resonates, not least because this re-master captures both