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Keith Jarrett Trio

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,...