Chick Corea, jazz keyboardist, innovator and one-time bandmate of Miles Davis', dies at 79
Chick Corea, jazz keyboardist, innovator and one-time bandmate of Miles Davis', dies at 79 He kept up a busy touring schedule well into his late 70s, and his performances often combined reunions with longtime associates and collaborations with younger accompanists File image of pianist, composer and bandleader Chick Corea at the Blue Note in Manhattan. By Karsten Moran © 2012 The New York Times Chick Corea, an architect of the jazz-rock fusion boom in the 1970s who spent more than a half century as one of the foremost pianists i...