Jazz

Chick Corea: A Deep Dive

Pianist Chick Corea ranks among a top few in his mastery of jazz dialects, but many among the modern masses speak with his accent. Corea is one of the major pioneers of fusion, and his far-ranging ...
Jazz

Chick Corea

A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 23-time Grammy winner, and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic ...
TheWrap

Chick Corea, Jazz Pianist Who Played With Miles Davis and Stan Getz, Dies at 79

Armando “Chick” Corea, the Grammy Award-winning pianist who played alongside fellow jazz legends like Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz and Miles Davis, died Feb. 9. He was 79 years old. Corea’s death was ...
NPR

Chick Corea renders Mozart with daring and playfulness on a posthumous new album

In 2018, three years before his death, the pianist and composer gave a concert in Sardinia that included both Mozart and George Gershwin. A live recording of that concert is now available. This is ...
New Statesman

Tom Fletcher: I hope my Paddington songs are bigger than McFly

The pianist, who died in February, was one of the founding fathers of jazz fusion – a deeply misunderstood genre. By Kate Mossman As a music critic, you spend a lot of time trying to find stuff to say ...
Time

Remembering Chick Corea, An Endlessly Inquisitive Jazz Pioneer

“When people listen to our music, there are so many different ideas about what it is,” Chick Corea told TIME in 2011. “You can survey the audience from young to old…they’ll put it in a lot of ...
Los Angeles Times

Chick Corea, pioneering jazz pianist who helped define ‘fusion,’ dies at 79

Chick Corea, the Grammy-winning pianist and keyboardist whose work at the intersections of jazz, experimental music, funk, progressive rock and classical music with his band Return to Forever helped ...
NPR

Chick Corea, Jazz Fusion Pioneer, Has Died Of Cancer At 79

This story was updated at 9:28 p.m. ET on Thursday, Feb. 11. The keyboardist, composer and bandleader Chick Corea — one of the most revered figures in contemporary jazz, but an artist whose work ...
NBC News

Jazz keyboard virtuoso Chick Corea dead of cancer at age 79

Keyboard virtuoso Chick Corea, who pushed the melodic boundaries of jazz during his five-decade career, has died of a rare form of cancer, his family announced Wednesday. Corea, who was 79 and a ...
Rolling Stone

Chick Corea, Jazz Pianist Who Expanded the Possibilities of the Genre, Dead at 79

Chick Corea, the virtuosic keyboardist who broadened the scope of jazz during a career spanning more than five decades, died on Tuesday from a rare form of cancer. A post on his Facebook page ...
USA Today

Jazz legend Chick Corea dies at 79 after battle with 'rare form of cancer,' John Mayer, more react

Jazz legend Chick Corea died Tuesday after battling cancer. He was 79. The 23-time Grammy winner was diagnosed with "a rare form of cancer which was only discovered very recently," according to a ...