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To Pete Yellin, my dear friend and Musical Teammate for a lifetime. Thanks for your dedication to Music throughout your whole productive life. – Chick

Our dear friend and amazingly beautiful human being and artist has left us. We celebrate his lifetime of artistic accomplishments – which we will never forget.

Chick & Béla discuss their new double-album An unclassifiable duet In an unlikely pairing of piano and banjo in 2006, Chick Corea and Béla Fleck joined together to explore the unexplored. Their proposed project, pairing one of jazz’s most prominent instruments with one relegated to “miscellaneous” in critics’ polls, was uncharted territory. But Chick (an admirer of the banjoist’s bluegrass-meets-bebop …

[ Video ] Stanley tells Chick the story of his very first gig (excerpted from the Music Magic with Chick Corea podcast).

Exclusive photos from the first leg of Chick & Herbie Hancock’s US tour.

Chick & Herbie dedicate a beautiful take of “Someday My Prince Will Come” to Miles Davis.

Chick took home Best Instrumental Jazz Album for Trilogy and Best Improvised Jazz Solo for “Fingerprints” from Trilogy.

“What a shock to hear that our dear Pino has left us – and so young. I was hoping to make more music with him. I had such a rewarding time working with Pino on “Sicily”. He was a valuable Gem!” – Chick

Paco’s moving on leaves a gigantic hole in the musical life of this world which his friends who have been inspired by him must fill with even more creativity. Paco inspired me in the construction of my own musical world as much as Miles Davis and John Coltrane, or Bartok and Mozart. I will dedicate all my music creation this …