Köln 75

On 24 January 1975, American jazz enfant terrible Keith Jarrett gave one of the most memorable performances of his career with "The Köln Concert". Entirely improvised and played on a ramshackle piano, the recording went on to become the best-selling solo album in jazz history. Fifty years later, Köln 75 shifts the spotlight to the mastermind behind that concert: Vera Brandes, the ambitious eighteen-year-old "jazz bunny" who risked it all to get Jarrett to play in Cologne. But don't expect a standard zero-to-hero biopic. This crowdpleaser that premiered at the Berlinale is as unpredictable as the genre it celebrates. Ido Fluk's Köln 75 is a lively cocktail of documentary, biography and pinches of fiction; a musical whirlwind tearing through Berlin's jazz scene at breakneck speed, leaving you with a fresh appreciation of Jarrett's music.