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Chick Corea shared his inner creative soul on "Plays" On Chick Corea’s 2-CD package, "Plays" (Concord), he needed no rhythm section, no blaring horns to make his points. His 10 fingers cascading wildly over the 88 keys of his piano creates new vistas of meaning to 300 years of compositional gems by varied composers. Corea explained the joy of making "Plays" to Goldmine. Author: By Mike Greenblatt [Chick Corea passed away on February 9 at the age of 78. This interview feature originally ran in Goldmine 's October 2020 print edition] Chick Corea. Photo by Toshi Sakurai courtesy of Chick Co...

R.I.P. Chick Corea photo by Sakurai Toshi Chick Corea, the influential jazz keyboardist and composer, has died. The news was confirmed by Dan Muse, Corea’s web and marketing manager, who confirmed the cause of death as “a rare form of cancer which was only discovered very recently.” Corea was 79. Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1941. His father was a jazz trumpeter, exposing Corea to music and records from artists like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie early on. As a child, Corea learned to play the piano and drums. In his young adulthood, Corea woul...

Chick Corea “What making music for people does, I’ve observed, is it stimulates what’s natural in all of us. It’s native sense, in every person. You don’t have to be a professional anything — all you need to do is be a living human being, and open to the play of imagination.” –Chick Corea, Jazz Times (2020) With a career spanning more than five decades and 23 Grammy Awards, pianist/keyboardist Chick Corea first garnered international attention with Miles Davis, ever after exploring a vast range of music from Latin, fusion and modern post bop with acclaimed bands Return to Fo...

  / Chick Corea, seen here performing in Turin, Italy, in 2018, died Feb. 9. // Getty Images for OGR, Giorgio Perottino 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 spanned fusion to classical — died on Feb. 9 at age 79. Dan Muse from Chick Corea Productions confirmed his death to NPR on Thursday afternoon. Corea's team also reported his death on social media, saying that he died from "a rare form of cancer which was only discovered v...