NEW YORK -- Chick Corea, a 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. He was 79.

This is FRESH AIR. Pianist, keyboardist and composer Chick Corea died last week at the age of 79. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says Corea's music covered a broad range of styles. Kevin has this ...

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*Chick Corea, whose real name was Armando Corea, and a Grammy Award-winning pianist who played alongside fellow legends like Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz and Miles Davis, died Feb. 9, according to ...

The celebrated jazz pianist Chick Corea died February 9 at the age of 79. A statement posted on Corea’s official website revealed that the virtuoso performer had recently been diagnosed with a rare ...

CHELSEA (CBS/AP) — Chick Corea, a towering jazz pianist from Chelsea with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “When people listen to our music, there are so many different ideas about what it is,” Chick Corea told TIME in 2011. “You can ...

But those who stick with Corea may reap benefits, as two new recordings of other live performances show."Duet," with jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara, and "Return to Forever Returns," with jazz-rock fusion ...

Da Camera kicks off its jazz series with the legendary Chick Corea in a solo piano performance. When Chick Corea recorded Piano Improvisations on the ECM label in 1971, he was the first jazz pianist ...

Chick Corea is known as one of the most powerful pianists, composers, and bandleaders in the history of jazz. He earned 27 Grammy awards and blazed trails across bebop, straight-ahead, free jazz, ...

Calling pianist-composer Chick Corea one of the most recognized jazz musicians of the last 50 years tells only half the story. Corea, who began playing piano at age 4, hasn’t limited himself to a ...