Award-winning Jazz musician Chick Corea has died at the age of 79.
Corea’s career spanned five decades, and he was the fourth most-nominated artist in the Grammy Awards history with 65 nominations (from which he won 23 times. Corea died on 9 February from a recently discovered rare form of Cancer, but his music is destined to survive him for a very long time. Particularly his ground-breaking work with Miles Davis in the ’60’s and with his band ‘Return to Forever.
My picture was taken at a memorable concert at Bonn Kunst!Rasen with Stanley Clarke in 2014.
I grant you that this evenings show at Bonn’s Kunstrasen was billed as ‘Chick Corea & Stanley Clarke play songs from ‘Return to Forever’ but on a mellow evening like this my ears told me they were in fact playing songs from Heaven. Legends come, and sadly they also go. All the more reason to enjoy two of the Jazz greats and the Summer air on the Rhine while we still can.