Released in Italian theaters on July 2, 2026, Köln 75, a film by Israeli-American director Ido Fluk, had premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2025, shortly after the fiftieth anniversary of Keith Jarrett‘s legendary Cologne performance. It tells the true story of one of the most celebrated concerts of the past half-century: Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert. Documented on an ECM album, originally released as a double LP, the performance would soon become the best-selling solo piano recording of all time – and, more broadly, the best-selling recording of a solo instrumental performance, regardless of musical genre. The story of that concert, of how an idea became a project and ultimately a reality, deserved to become a screenplay even before the music began to take shape late on Friday, January 24, 1975, following a performance of Alban Berg’s opera Lulu at the Cologne Opera House. Shortly after […]
