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It also laid the foundations of a lasting musical bond with drummer Jack DeJohnette (who also plays the piano). The Quartet's tours across America and Europe, even to Moscow, made Jarrett a widely noticed musician in rock and jazz underground circles. Their 1966 album Forest FlowerВ was one of the most successful jazz recordings of the mid-1960s and when they were invited to play the Fillmore in San Francisco, they won over the local hippie audience. The Charles Lloyd Quartet had formed not long before and were exploring open, improvised forms while building supple grooves, and they were soon moving into terrain that was also being explored, although from another stylistic background, by some of the psychedelic rock bands of the west coast. DeJohnette talked to Jarrett and soon recommended him to his own band leader,В Charles Lloyd. During a show with that group he was noticed byВ Jack DeJohnetteВ who (as he recalled years later) immediately recognized the unknown pianist's talent and unstoppable flow of ideas. In New York,В Art BlakeyВ hired Jarrett to play with the Jazz Messengers. After a year he moved to New York City, where he played at theВ Village Vanguard. ДЇollowing his graduation from Emmaus High School in 1963, В Jarrett moved from Allentown to Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended theВ Berklee College of MusicВ and played cocktail piano in local clubs. At one point, he had an offer to study classical composition inВ ParisВ with the famed teacherВ Nadia BoulangerВ вЂ“ an opportunity that pleased Jarrett's mother but that Jarrett, already leaning toward jazz, decided to turn down. In his early teens, he developed a strong interest in the contemporary jazz scene aВ Dave BrubeckВ performance was an early inspiration. In his teens, as a student atВ Emmaus High SchoolВ inВ Emmaus, Pennsylvania, Jarrett learned jazz and quickly became proficient in it.

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Encouraged especially by his mother, Jarrett took intensive classical piano lessons with a series of teachers, includingВ Eleanor SokoloffВ of theВ Curtis Institute. Jarrett gave his first formal piano recital at the age of seven, playing works by composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Saint-SaГ«ns, and ending with two of his own compositions.

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He began piano lessons just before his third birthday, and at age five he appeared on a TV talent program hosted by the swing bandleader Paul Whiteman. Jarrett possessedВ absolute pitch, and he displayed prodigious musical talents as a young child. He grew up in suburban Allentown with significant early exposure to music. Keith Jarrett was born May 8, 1945, inВ Allentown, PennsylvaniaВ to a mother of Austrian and Hungarian descent and a father of either French orВ Scotch-IrishВ descent.