Keith Jarrett was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on May 8, 1945. He started playing the piano when he was 3 and performed in his first concert when he was 6. The concert ended with two of his compositions. Jarrett studied classical music, but was very interested in jazz. In his late teens he turned down an offer to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris to go to New York to play jazz. In New York, Jarrett was hired by Art Blakey to play with The Jazz Messengers.

Here he is performing Mandala in 1976. I love the shirt and the fro. The seventies were great!