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How Teenager Vera Brandes Staged a Keith Jarrett Concert That Made Jazz History
Fifty years ago today, 18-year-old Vera Brandes organized a concert for jazz pianist Keith Jarrett in Cologne, which went on to make music history.
John Magaro as Keith Jarrett, Alexander Scheer as Manfred Eicher, Mala Emde as Vera Brandes in ‘Köln 75’ Courtesy of One Two Films But that he did what he did was an emotional statement and that was owing to the very particular circumstances of this whole sequence of events that led to him eventually being able to play after we thought that because of this piano drama we wouldn’t solve it. You would find Maria Callas and Romy Schneider standing opposite Gigi at the counter, having their Italian espresso, listening to the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band.”
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