"The Köln Concert" – Keith Jarrett

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter Martin

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Keith Jarrett's "The Köln Concert" is the best selling solo piano album of all time. But why this album? Possibly because it sounded like nothing else in popular music at the time of its release in 1975. It is cinematic, genre-fluid and masterful – in many ways ahead of its time.

Jazz musicians Adam Maness and Peter Martin listen to one of the most popular albums in the history of jazz, pulling apart all the elements that make it great: the melodies, the vamps, even the "soul" of Jarrett's notoriously flawed piano.

If you know "The Köln Concert" well, watch for the analysis and hot takes. If you haven't heard this album before, it may just become the soundtrack to your life!

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00:00 - Is it Köln or Cologne?
06:30 - Part I
09:20 - How Jarrett Made Music for the Moment
17:00 - Jumping Back Into Part I
23:00 - Joyful and Fearless
29:00 - All the Genres
33:20 - Legit Amazing AND Popular
36:05 - The Harp
42:00 - Part II a
48:25 - 80s Cinema Vibes
54:20 - Part II b
1:00:55 - Part II c
1:04:00 - Apex Moments & Categories
1:11:45 - GALA + Black Friday at Open Studio!

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0:00.0	Hey Adam. Hey, Peter. It's come to my attention, attention is K-Bart Shoppers, that we now have over 50,000 subscribers on YouTube.
0:08.2	What? Oh, on the you'll hear it YouTube channel. Yeah, Peter, that's amazing. That's huge.
0:12.9	That is huge. Well, at least I thought it was huge, but there's a little bit of a problem.
0:16.8	Oh, yeah? What's that, bud?
0:18.1	Well, not all of our subscribers or subs, as we call them in the business, are actually open studio members yet. Wait, what? Well, Peter, they're in luck because right now, it's Black Friday. You are correct, my friend. It's our biggest savings of the year to get you off the fans, not you, the folks listening to this, and into the shed. Level up with lessons from jazz legends like Emmett Cohen, Sullivan Fortner, Jeffrey Keiser,
0:40.1	and of course, yours truilies.
0:42.2	Yeah, well, we snuck in there too.
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0:50.4	For, oh, your jazz lesson needs.
0:54.3	But hurry, these deals and November 30th.
1:01.4	I'm Adam Mance.
1:06.2	And I'm Peter Martin.
1:07.0	And you're listening to the You'll Hear Podcast.
1:09.0	Music Explored.
1:10.2	Explored, brought to the name by Open Studio. Go to Open Studio, Jazz.com. Ow. Hello. You jazz, listen. Hello, who are you? Peter, today we're talking about an album that inspired so many. It inspired me to wear some cologne. Oh, I get it. It's actually pronounced Cone. Oh, it is?
1:27.6	Yes.
1:28.0	Well, it's been anglicized as Cologne, but...
1:30.5	Oh, sorry, I thought it was Cologne. Okay, well, that changes everything, doesn't it? Oh, it was recorded and released in 1975. I think you nailed it with the voice there. Was that... Are we on AM radio? What's going on? Yeah, I thought this was like a Cologne concert, and I was like, groovy.
1:44.3	I guess technically it is, but it's, this is Keith Jarrett's The Cone concert. Ah, I've heard of that, classy. Yeah, what's not classy is, if you're on the YouTube's, you can see this. You know what is not classy is that... I couldn't find my LP of this. It's actually possible that Keith Jarrett could see this, and I regret doing what I just did
2:01.8	about his great best-selling album of all time.
2:04.7	We love Keith Jared here.
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