Chick Corea

Chick Corea is one of those musicians where you just sit back and wonder how one person could move so fluently between so many worlds — bebop, post-bop, fusion, Latin jazz, classical chamber music, avant-garde — and make each one feel like home. Growing up in Chelsea, Massachusetts with a bandleader father clearly wired something deep into him, because by the time he was sitting in with Miles Davis in the late '60s on those electric, boundary-shattering sessions, you knew this wasn't just a sideman. Return to Forever, Spain, 500 Miles High — these aren't just compositions, they're landmarks. Twenty-nine Grammy wins over a career that never stopped evolving, right up until he passed in February 2021. He never coasted. That kind of restless curiosity and joy in the music is genuinely rare, and honestly, the piano world is quieter without him.

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Name (English)

Chick Corea

Name (Japanese)

チック・コリア

Reading

ちっく・こりあ

Born

June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021

Origin

Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

pianist / composer / jazz musician / recording artist / conductor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Snake

High school

Chelsea High School

Awards & achievements

• IAS Freedom Medal
• 2017 honorary doctor of the Eastman School of Music
• 1990 Frankfurter Musikpreis
• Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album
• NEA Jazz Masters

• Official sitehttps://www.chickcorea.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/chickcorea/
• Xhttps://x.com/ChickCorea
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick%20Corea
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192465

Tags

• Massachusetts
• pianist
• composer
• jazz musician

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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