American composer and virtuoso pianist Keith Jarrett, whose repertoire
encompasses standards, fusion, improvisation, solo and small ensemble playing,
baroque and contemporary music, is the most eclectic of jazz musicians. Born in
Allentown (Pennsylvania) on May 8, 1945, he was trained in classical music and
graduated from Boston's Berklee College. He began a career as an accompanist
with drummer and leader Art Blakey, then Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis, before
asserting himself under his own name in very different styles and changing
formulas, in solo, trio, quintet or with orche...