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As kids, they jammed in the basement and he heard what would become the Chick Corea sound © Pam Berry/Globe Staff Chelsea native Chick Corea performs at the Hatch Shell in Boston on June 25, 1989. As with all deaths of people one has known personally, the passing of Chick Corea came as a shock (”Chick Corea, at 79; eclectic jazz pianist earned 23 Grammys,” Feb. 12). We were teenage friends and budding musicians, jamming on Saturday nights in his basement and gigging in class D barrooms on Broadway in Chelsea. I played the drums. The first time I visited his basement, he was playing trumpet. Puzzled, I asked if the trumpet was his instrument. Surprised, he replied, “No, how did you know?” “I can hear it,” was my answer; the smooth transitions were missing and the tone was wrong, the improvisation cumbersome. He told me his main instrument was piano. So I asked him to play something for me. What I heard was stunning the touch, the invention, the effortless fluidi

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