Köln Concert 51

This performance follows the triumph of Köln Concert 50, which Ford performed in Cologne in January 2025 on the exact 50th anniversary of the original concert. That anniversary event sold out, drew several audience members from the 1975 performance itself, and received major acclaim in UK and European press. In the year that followed, Ford’s tribute was invited to the Liverpool International Jazz Festival and the Aberdeen Jazz Festival, building on its earlier success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024, where critics hailed it as “one of the true glories of the Festival.”

Köln Concert 51 continues this artistic journey — not as a recreation, but as a living improvisational response to a piece that has shaped half a century of musical history.

“Highlight or Liverpool Jazz Festival for me, Dorian Ford’s masterly reinterpretation of Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert. Intense, gripping and quite beautiful.”