Few musicians have made a greater contribution to the wider development of jazz
than Keith Jarrett, whose interest in fusion music has involved folk, blues and
classical. Born on May 8, 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, he was playing piano
by the age of three, appeared on a TV talent show by the time he turned five,
and played his first classical piano recital at the age of seven. Part-inspired
by Dave Brubeck, Jarrett got into jazz in his teens and abandoned classical
music to join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He moved on to a more
improvisational group formed by Charles Lloyd,...