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Happy 75th birthday to the brilliant National Endowment for the Arts #JazzMaster Keith Jarrett. In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first recipient of both the contemporary and classical musician prizes. His album The Köln Concert (1975) became the best-selling piano recording in history. Born in Allentown, PA, he displayed musical talents as a young child. He began piano lessons before his third birthday, and at age five he appeared on a TV talent program. Jarrett possesses abs

On January 24th 1975, Keith Jarrett played at the opera in Köln, Germany. There is a consensus among critics, listeners and musicians alike that this, Keith Jarrett's second solo piano concerto recording (after Solo-Concerts Bremen/Lausanne), is a milestone not only in Keith Jarrett's oeuvre, but in the history of jazz as a whole. Already in the year of its release, The Köln Concert was met with great enthusiasm: "The fingers are often astonishing, the melodies beguiling, the piano arrangement r