R.I.P. composer and pianist Chick Corea Photo: Timothy Norris (Getty Images) Chick Corea has died. A 23-time Grammy winner, Corea’s music helped shape the sound of jazz piano from the 1960s onward, both with his work with Miles Davis—including on the endlessly influential Bitches Brew—and in a series of solo and duet projects that spanned the entirety of his 60-year career. Per Rolling Stone, Corea died on Tuesday from a rare form of cancer. He was 79. Born in Massachusetts, and swiftly inducted into the world of jazz by his Dixieland trumpeter father, Corea slipped into the world of music early and often. He spent the 1960s touring and playing with a wide variety of notables of the day, releasing two albums—