Jazz legend, fusion pioneer Chick Corea dies of cancer at 79


NEW YORK (AFP): Chick Corea, the American jazz composer and electric keyboard trailblazer whose visionary fusion work stretched the traditional boundaries of the genre, has died of a rare form of cancer. He was 79.

Corea's illness "was only discovered very recently," read a statement posted on his Facebook page Thursday (Feb 11).

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