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Also known as Armando Anthony Corea

American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer (1941-2021)

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Chick Corea was an American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer who lived from 1941 to 2021 and became one of the most influential musicians in modern jazz. He is remembered for pioneering fusion music that blended jazz with rock and other styles, and for his virtuosic keyboard playing and innovative compositions that shaped the direction of jazz for decades.

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26

Top works

  • Pepper Adams
  • Jazz Solos of Chick Corea
  • Chick Corea - Omnibook
  • Chick Corea - Omnibook for Piano * Transcribed Exactly from His Recorded Solos
  • Chick Corea

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Chick Corea (born Armando Anthony Corea in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA, on June 12, 1941, died February 9, 2021) was an American jazz pianist/electric keyboardist and composer. His compositions "Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta" and "Windows", are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed the fusion band Return to Forever. Along with Herbie Hancock <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Chick

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Quotes

  • I believe that any "awareness" of life is "spiritual" since awareness can only be a quality of the spirit not of the material world or of matter and machines. Only a spiritual being has awareness. But if you mean "spiritual" in the sense of a kind of "celebration of Life", then yes, I write music to celebrate life. I think most artists do, no matter how they themselves describe it. It's the joy of creating. It's a way of life.

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Official website
www.chickcorea.com
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Chick Corea Kongsberg Jazzfestival 2018 (170650).jpg
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Commons category
Chick Corea
date of birth
1941-06-12
birth name
Armando Anthony Corea
start of work period
1962-00-00
pseudonym
Chick Corea
social media followers
112588
date of death
2021-02-09
name in native language
Chick Corea
end of work period
2021-00-00
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Works in European collections

27 objects attributed to Chick Corea, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and "Windows" are considered jazz standards.

As a member of the Miles Davis band in the late 1960s, Corea participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever. Along with McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett, Corea is considered one of the foremost pianists of the post-John Coltrane era.

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