The Köln Concert
by Keith Jarrett

Album
The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett
(Live album)
Year: 1975
Release date: 1975-11-30
Overall rank: 850th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 288 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1975 (13th)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (178th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (850th)

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The Köln Concert is ranked as the best album by Keith Jarrett.

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The Köln Concert track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 86 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 85 (47 votes)Comments: View 0

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The Köln Concert rankings

The Köln Concert rankings summary
Overall rank: 850th | 1970s rank: 178th | 1975 rank: 13th  Overall chart history
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 !		09/10/2026 19:38 HoldenM  Ratings distribution  1,89684/100
 
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The Köln Concert forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 08/25/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5415): By JR
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From 09/15/2014 19:22 | #121998 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
my first foray into the world of the piano solo. What an introduction !!
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From 07/16/2015 01:50 | #145828 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
It's maybe the only album of Keith Jarrett that you can enjoy completely from the beginning to the end. A masterpiece
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From 09/08/2013 21:15 | #85481 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Well who couldn't be pleased by the show! They play the piano all the way through. Got to keep them seated and happy. I had a good time.
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From 09/26/2022 17:23 | #289976 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
The improvisation on here is fantastic and so is the piano playing but I think this is more for the background than for deep inspection. When the only thing you are focusing on is this it really does drag and the music feels needlessly elongated. It does get quite repetitive and boring by the time you reach the conclusion as it is tough to tell most of it apart. Nothing really stunned me either and there was no point in the listen where I had to sit back and just admire how phenomenal it is. With that being said his playing is fantastic and he creates a brilliant atmosphere that is perfect for listening to when you are working or need to concentrate on something else. Overall, this record creates a fantastic environment but there is only so much you can look into on this record and it does get boring for me.
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From 03/15/2016 17:32 | #161980 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
this might be the greatest improvised performance of all time.
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