Keyboard player and composer Chick Corea was born Armando Anthony Corea in Chelsea, Mass., on June 12, 1941. His father, a Dixieland trumpet player, introduced Corea to jazz at an early age. By the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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.

"Name that tune," Chick Corea says gamely, putting down the phone and banging out a dancing Brazilian melody on a keyboard in his hotel room in Alicante, Spain. Sounds familiar but I'm stumped. "It's ...