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Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.  Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz-fusion, and classical music as a group leader and a solo performer.  His improvisations draw not only from the traditions of jazz, but from other genres as well, especially Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.  In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize He was the first, and to this day, the only recipient not to share the prize with a co-recipient.  In 2004, he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize.  In 2008, he was inducted into the Down Beat Hall of Fame in the magazine’s 73rd Annual Readers’ Poll.