A former pianist of Miles Davis, this born experimenter was one of the pioneers of the merger with Return to Forever.
He died of a rare form of cancer at the age of 79.
He belonged to the very closed circle of piano geniuses trained at the Miles Davis school, with Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock or Keith Jarrett to name only the most famous.
Chick Corea, born Armando Corea in Massachusetts in 1941, would turn 80 next June.
He succumbed to a rare form of cancer, diagnosed very recently, at his home in Florida, surrounded by his wife, children and grandchildren.
His father, of Calabrian origin, a trumpeter in a big band in Boston, had put Chick ("the chick") behind a piano when he was only 4 years old.
In time to take the full brunt of the bop revolution that profoundly changed the face of jazz in the 1950s.
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It is therefore under the sponsorship of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Horace Silver and Lester Young that he will make his
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