Jazz great Chick Corea dies
NEW YORK: Chick Corea, the towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has died aged 79.
Corea died on Wednesday of a rare form of cancer, his team said on his website.
In 1968, Corea replaced Hancock in Davis’ group, playing on the landmark albums In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew.
He formed his own avantgarde group, Circle, and then founded Return to Forever.
He recorded and performed classical music, standards, solo originals, Latin jazz and tributes to great jazz pianists.
Last year,
Corea released the double album Plays, which captured him at various concerts armed simply with his piano.
Corea is the artist with the most jazz Grammys in the show’s 63year history and he has a chance to posthumously win at the March 14 show, where he is nominated for best improvised jazz solo for All Blues and best jazz instrumental album for Trilogy 2.