For three consecutive weeks, Chick Corea celebrated his 60th birthday. Nine different ensembles of his choosing held sway at New York's Blue Note two nights each week. Perhaps better to having been ...

Corea died at the age of 79 after being recently diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, a statement on his website said Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited ...

On his latest Concord Records release, Antidote, 22-time Grammy Award-winning pianist-composer Chick Corea returns to what he calls his “Spanish Heart”—the Spanish, Latin and flamenco traditions that ...

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From hard bop to fusion, mischievousness to sensitivity, Corea’s wide-ranging catalogue lived at the vanguard of jazz The jazz pioneer Chick Corea died last week at the age of 79, leaving behind one ...

Jazz pianist who was happy to stray into rock and classical fusions Chick Corea, who has died aged 79, was a playfully prodigious jazz piano improviser, a versatile composer and a pioneer of 1970s ...

Keyboard player and composer Chick Corea was born Armando Anthony Corea in Chelsea, Mass., on June 12, 1941. His father, a Dixieland trumpet player, introduced Corea to jazz at an early age. By the ...

Even though he's had his hand in more than 100 albums, watching Chick Corea play piano feels like seeing him fall in love with his instrument for the first time. Maybe that's why he called his latest ...

The jazz pianist and innovator was at the forefront of the movement blending jazz and rock in the 1970s, and recorded close to 90 albums as a bandleader or co-leader. By Ryan Reed Chick Corea, the ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Albums news every morning. Chick Corea’s love affair with Spanish music took him, early in his career, to the 1960s bands of Latin jazz ...

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