Chick Corea, jazz great with 23 Grammy Awards, dies of cancer at 79
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Chick Corea, jazz great with 23 Grammy Awards, dies of cancer at 79
Jazz pianist and composer Chick Corea poses for a portrait in Clearwater, Fla., on Sept. iv, 2020, to promote his new double anthology "Plays." (Mike Carlson/Invision/AP, File)
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.
Corea died on Tuesday (Feb 9) of a rare form of cancer, his team posted on his website. His death was confirmed past Corea's web and marketing managing director, Dan Muse.
On his Facebook page, Corea left a message to his fans: "I want to give thanks all of those along my journeying who have helped continue the music fires called-for bright. It is my promise that those who have an inkling to play, write, perform or otherwise, do and so. If not for yourself so for the rest of us. Information technology'southward not only that the world needs more artists, it's also just a lot of fun."
A prolific artiste with dozens of albums, Corea in 1968 replaced Herbie Hancock in Miles Davis' group, playing on the landmark albums In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew.
He formed his own avant-garde group, Circumvolve, so founded Return to Forever. He's worked on many other projects, including duos with Hancock and vibraphonist Gary Burton. He recorded and performed classical music, standards, solo originals, Latin jazz and tributes to groovy jazz pianists.
He was named a National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Main in 2006. He was a member of the Church of Scientology and lived in Clearwater, Florida.
In addition to his Grammy wins, Corea too had four Latin Grammy wins. In a tweet, the Latin Recording Academy called him "a virtuosic pianist and i of the most prominent Latin jazz musicians of all times". The Blue Note jazz club simply chosen him "irreplaceable".
Drummer Sheila Eastward took to Twitter to mourn. "This man changed my life thru his music and we were able to play together many times. I was very fortunate to call him my family," she wrote "Chick, you are missed dearly, your music and bright light will live on forever."
Hip-hop star Q-Tip called Corea "one of the coldest pianist/keyboardist/songwriters of all fourth dimension" and rapper Biz Markie historic Corea's 1972 jazz fusion grouping Render to Forever, calling it "fossil fuel for an eternity of rap samples".
Final year, Corea released the double album Plays, which captured him solo at various concerts armed but with his piano.
"Like a runner loves to run because it just feels good, I like to play the pianoforte merely because it feels good," he told The Associated Press at the time. "I can just switch gears and go to another direction or go to another song or whatsoever I desire to do. So it'due south a constant experiment."
The double anthology was a peek into Corea's musical eye, containing songs he wrote nigh the innocence of children decades ago besides as tunes by Mozart, Thelonious Monk and Stevie Wonder, amongst others.
Corea is the artiste with the virtually jazz Grammys in the bear witness'southward 63-year history, and he has a chance to posthumously win at the Mar 14 evidence, where he's nominated for best improvised jazz solo for All Blues and best jazz instrumental album for Trilogy ii.
Cores was born in Massachusetts and began piano lessons at four. But he bristled at formal education and dropped out of both Columbia University and the Juilliard Schoolhouse. He began his career as a sideman.
Corea liked inviting volunteers onto the stage during solo concerts, sitting them down near his piano and creating spontaneous, entirely subjective tone poems virtually the person. "It starts as a game – to endeavour to capture something I run into in music," he told the AP. "While I play, I look at them a couple of times like a painter would. I endeavor to see if, while I'k playing, are they agreeing with what I'm playing? Do they think that this is really a portrait of them? And normally they do."
Late last year, Corea was working ii commissions: A trombone concerto for the New York Philharmonic and a percussion concerto for the Philadelphia Orchestra. "I get interested in something and and so I follow that interest. And that'due south how my music comes out," he said and then. "I've always followed my interest. Information technology'due south been my successful way of living."
He'due south as well started teaching online, creating the Chick Corea Academy to offer his views on music and share the opinions of others, take questions and conversation with guests. He hopes his students will explore their freedom of expression and think for themselves.
"Does everyone take to like what I like? No. And it's what makes the globe go effectually that we all have unlike likes," he told the AP. "We come up together and nosotros collaborate."
Corea is survived by his wife, Gayle Moran, and a son Thaddeus.
Béla Fleck, a virtuoso on the banjo, who recorded and toured with Corea, called him "my hero, mentor and friend," adding "The globe has lost one of the great ones. I'm and then honoured to have known him."
(Source: AP)
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