Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert (1975) [Hi-Res]

The most successful solo jazz album of all time, THE KOLN CONCERT is an awe-inspiring work of improvisation and invention. Consisting of four tracks that together comprise over an hour of music, the performance is an apt demonstration of Jarrett’s genius as a piano player and conceptualist. It features one of the greatest series of free improvisations ever caught on tape—endlessly imaginative and absolutely mesmerizing. Released for the first time in breathtaking 96kHz/24bit, the performance takes on an entirely new dimension—one that places you immediately before Jarrett’s phenomenal keyboard displays of virtuosity and gives additional resonance to every struck note. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011.

The album is not so much masterpiece as masterwork: art as a process that forever remains in the present. “Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, Wall Street Journal