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.

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 ...

"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 ...

On his latest Concord Records release, Antidote, 22-time Grammy Award-winning pianist-composer Chick Corea returns to what he calls his “Spanish Heart”—the Spanish, Latin and flamenco traditions that ...

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For three consecutive weeks, Chick Corea celebrated his 60th birthday. Nine different ensembles of his choosing held sway at New York's Blue Note two nights each week. Perhaps better to having been ...