{"id":100387,"date":"2021-02-12T22:44:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T03:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=100387"},"modified":"2021-02-13T22:26:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T03:26:45","slug":"legendary-jazz-keyboardist-chick-corea-dies-at-79-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=100387","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Jazz Keyboardist Chick Corea Dies at 79 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=100387\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=100387\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-100388 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/7988d3fca670c5822ed5e9b9aa391beaf4-chuck-corea.rsquare.w1200-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/7988d3fca670c5822ed5e9b9aa391beaf4-chuck-corea.rsquare.w1200-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/7988d3fca670c5822ed5e9b9aa391beaf4-chuck-corea.rsquare.w1200-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/7988d3fca670c5822ed5e9b9aa391beaf4-chuck-corea.rsquare.w1200-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/7988d3fca670c5822ed5e9b9aa391beaf4-chuck-corea.rsquare.w1200-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/7988d3fca670c5822ed5e9b9aa391beaf4-chuck-corea.rsquare.w1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chick Corea, the Grammy winning jazz keyboardist died February 9, 2021, in Tampa Bay, Florida, of a rare form of cancer. He was 79.<\/p>\n<p>Corea\u2019s musical roots began with his father, a jazz trumpeter, led a Dixieland band in Boston and introduced him to the piano when he was four. At age eight he began taking lessons from concert pianist Salvatore Sullo, who introduced him to classical music. He moved to New York City where he studied musical education at Columbia University and at the Julliard School.<br \/>\nHe began his professional career in the early 1960s.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He recorded his debut album, Tones for Joan\u2019s Bones, in 1966. He has performed with greats such as Stan Getz, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. When jazz and rock were infused during the late 1960s into the 1970s, he was at the forefront of the movement, for which he became an influential figure in the music industry.<\/p>\n<p>During his career Corea produced 81 albums, 17 live albums and 8 compilation albums and won 23 Grammy Awards and was nominated over 60 times. His compositions \u201cSpain\u201d, 500 Miles High\u201d, \u201cLa Fiesta\u201d, and \u201cWindows\u201d are widely considered jazz standards.<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Chick Corea\u2019s family during their time of grief,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] By Geoffrey Huchel Chick Corea, the Grammy winning jazz keyboardist died February 9, 2021, in Tampa Bay, Florida, of a rare form of cancer. He was 79. Corea\u2019s musical roots began with his father, a jazz trumpeter, led a Dixieland band in Boston and introduced him to the piano when he was four. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[25491],"class_list":["post-100387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-legendary-jazz-keyboardist-chick-corea-dies-at-79-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100387"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}