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Jazz legend and fusion pioneer Chick Corea dies of cancer

Jazz legend and fusion pioneer Chick Corea dies of cancer

Over his more than five-decade career Chick Corea, pictured in September 2014 during a conert in Colombia, established himself as a revolutionary of jazz fusion.

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

Corea’s illness “was only discovered very recently,” read a statement posted on his Facebook page Thursday.

“I want to thank all of those along my…

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