10/16/2025
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This beautiful, uplifting film captures the compelling, inspiring and, until now, unknown backstory about Keith Jarrett’s one-hour, entirely improvised 1975 concert, which became the best-selling solo album in jazz history, and the teenaged concert promoter, Vera Brandes, who made it happen. Starring John Magaro as Jarrett, Michael Chernus as the jazz critic who acts as our guide, and Mala Emde as the irrepressible Vera.
“Infectious…you don’t need to be a Keith Jarrett fan to enjoy Köln 75, but for anyone who is, the movie is a savory anecdote that colors in his fluky rapture.”
–Owen Gleiberman, Variety
“A vivid vehicle for a dynamic, often very funny Emde...the female-focused story of a high-stakes struggle, showing how a cultural passion can sometimes overcome all obstacles and transform a person’s life entirely.”
–Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily
