How Teenager Vera Brandes Staged a Keith Jarrett Concert That Made Jazz History
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor Fifty years ago today, 18-year-old Vera Brandes organized a concert for jazz pianist Keith Jarrett in Cologne, West Germany, which went on to make music history: a recording of the concert became the best-selling solo jazz album ever as well as the best-selling piano recording ever.
Now director Ido Fluk and producers Sol Bondy and Fred Burle from One Two Films have made a film, titled “Köln 75,” that dramatizes the events leading up to the concert, with its world premiere to be held at the Berlinale next month.
Variety spoke to Brandes about her memories of the night. The film’s poster is exclusively revealed below. “Köln 75” starts with Brandes meeting Ronnie Scott, a British jazz musician and owner of a London jazz club.
Scott asks Brandes to arrange some concerts for him in Germany and so, from that chance encounter, she becomes a music promoter, although she has to lock horns with her father.
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