Jazz legend Chick Korea dies

Death yesterday missed the legend of American jazz pianist Chick Correa, who died at the age of 79, of a rare form of cancer, according to Agence France-Presse.

According to the statement prepared by the late team that he wrote before his death a message saying: "I want to thank everyone who helped throughout the journey in lighting the torch of music."

"I hope that those who want to play, write and participate in a work of art will be able to do so. If it is not for themselves, then we are. Not only because the world needs more artists, but because that is more fun," he added.

The statement indicated that Correa's cancer "was not discovered until a very short time ago."

Chick Correa was a composer and pioneer of electrical and electronic switchboards.

Along with Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett, he was one of the most influential pianists of the 20th century.

His pieces such as "Spin" and "500 Miles High" or "La Fiesta" have become classics.

Correa, who came from Massachusetts, is the son of a trumpeter in the field of jazz, and he learned to play the piano before mastering his reading, and then he also learned to play drums at the age of eleven.

After high school, he joined Columbia University in New York in 1959. But he decided to quit his studies and devote himself to music after watching trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophone player John Coltrane in a jazz club.

His first solo records date back to the end of the 1960s, and one of the most prominent is "Ise", which was characterized by improvisation.

And in the fall of 1968. Correa replaced another famous pianist, Herbie Hancock, during a concert in Baltimore for the band founded by Miles Davis.

"Simply play what you hear," Davis told him.

Correa later said, "It liberated me because I was used to playing improvisational music."

And the two established a more liberal type of jazz, without pre-rehearsals, in which punishment occupies a central position, and is distinguished by the fact that each musician performs the piece in his own way.

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