Awards

Year Source Award Album Song Awarded to
2013 GRAMMY® AWARD WINNER BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION Hot House "Mozart Goes Dancing" Chick Corea
2013 GRAMMY® AWARD WINNER BEST IMPROVISED JAZZ SOLO Hot House Chick Corea, Gary Burton
2012 LATIN GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BEST INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM Forever Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White
2011 GRAMMY® AWARD WINNER BEST IMPROVISED JAZZ SOLO Forever 500 Miles High Chick Corea
2011 GRAMMY® AWARD WINNER BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
Forever Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White
2011 DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE ELECTRONIC KEYBOARDIST OF THE YEAR (Readers Poll)
Chick Corea
2010 DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE
Chick Corea
2010 DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE ARTIST OF THE YEAR Chick Corea
2010 DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE "BEYOND" ALBUM OF THE YEAR Five Peace Band Live Chick Corea & John McLaughlin
2010 DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE ELECTRONIC KEYBOARDIST OF THE YEAR Chick Corea
2010 CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA
RICHARD J. BOGOMOLNY NATIONAL SERVICE AWARD
Chick Corea
2009 GRAMMY® AWARD WINNER BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM Five Peace Band Live Five Peace Band
2009 DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE ELECTRIC KEYBOARDIST/ SYNTHESIZER OF THE YEAR
Chick Corea
2008 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL SOLO The New Crystal Silence Waltz for Debby Chick Corea & Gary Burton
2008 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM (Individual or group) The New Crystal Silence
Chick Corea & Gary Burton
2008 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION The New Crystal Silence Alegria Chick Corea & Gary Burton
2008 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM The New Crystal Silence
Chick Corea & Gary Burton
2008 JAZZTIMES MAGAZINE BEST REISSUE OF THE YEAR The Anthology
Return to Forever
2008 SWING JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZMAN OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
2008 SWING JOURNAL BEST PIANO PLAYER

Chick Corea
2008 JAZZTIMES MAGAZINE BEST CONTEMPORARY/ ELECTRIC GROUP

Return to Forever
2008 DOWNBEAT’s 73rd ANNUAL READERS POLL ELECTRIC KEYBOARDIST/ SYNTHESIZER OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
2008 BBC BBC LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Chick Corea/Return to Forever
2008 JAZZTIMES MAGAZINE JAZZ ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
2008 STATE OF UTAH RETURN TO FOREVER DAY: June 4, 2008, presented by Utah Governor Jon Huntsman

Chick Corea/Return to Forever
2008 JAZZTIMES MAGAZINE BEST ARTIST OF THE YEAR, ELECTRIC KEYBOARDS

Chick Corea
2007 LATIN GRAMMY AWARD WINNER Best Instrumental Album The Enchantment
Chick Corea & Béla Fleck
2006 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER Best Jazz Instrumental Album The Ultimate Adventure
Chick Corea, Hubert Laws, Steve Gadd, Airto Moreira
2006 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER Best Instrumental Arrangement The Ultimate Adventure Three Ghouls Chick Corea
2006 AWARD OF THE PIANO FESTIVAL RUHR German lifetime achievement award previously presented to only eight musicians

Chick Corea
2006 ALBUM OF THE YEAR JAZZ GOLD DISC AWARD, JAPAN

Chick Corea Steve Gadd Christian McBride
2006 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS NEA JAZZ MASTERS AWARD

Chick Corea
2003 GRAMMY NOMINATION Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) (An Arranger's Award) Rendezvous in New York
Armando's Rhumba Chick Corea, arranger (Chick Corea & Bobby McFerrin)
2003 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
Rendezvous in New York
Matrix Chick Corea, soloist
2003 GRAMMY NOMINATION Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
Rendezvous in New York
Chick Corea
2000 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST CLASSICAL CROSSOVER ALBUM (Sextet & Orchestra, Piano Concerto No. 1) Corea.Concerto
Spain Chick Corea, Steven Mercurio, London Philharmonic Orchestra
2000 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT (For Sextet and Orchestra) Corea.Concerto
Spain Chick Corea
2000 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT (For Sextet and Orchestra) Corea.Concerto
Spain Chick Corea
2000 JAZZTIMES READERS POLL BEST ACOUSTIC GROUP Chick Corea & Origin
2000 JAZZTIMES READERS POLL BEST ELECTRIC KEYBOARD

Chick Corea
1999 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION Change Little Flamenco Chick Corea & Origin
1999 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL SOLO Change Wigwam Chick Corea & Origin
1999 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE Change Album Chick Corea & Origin
1999 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE Like Minds

Gary Burton,Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes & Dave Holland
1999 DOWNBEAT CRITICS POLL JAZZ ARTIST OF THE YEAR Chick Corea
1999 DOWNBEAT CRITICS POLL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR Live At The Blue Note
Chick Corea & Origin
1999 DOWNBEAT CRITICS POLL ACOUSTIC JAZZ GROUP

Chick Corea & Origin
1999 DOWNBEAT CRITICS POLL ELECTRIC KEYBOARD Chick Corea
1998 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL SOLO Native Sense RHUMBATA Chick Corea & Gary Burton
1997 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE Remembering Bud Powell Album Chick Corea
1995 JAZZ GOLD DISC AWARD, JAPAN ALBUM OF THE YEAR Expressions
Album Chick Corea
1995 JAZZ GOLD DISC AWARD, JAPAN ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1995 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION Time Warp
New Life Chick Corea
1994 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL BEST JAZZ PLAYER

Chick Corea
1994 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL SOLO Expressions
Lushlife Chick Corea
1993 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION Paint The World
Blue Miles Chick Corea
1993 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST CONTEMPORARY JAZZ PERFORMANCE Paint The World

Chick Corea Elektric Band II
1992 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE BEST JAZZ PIANIST

Chick Corea
1991 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ PERFORMANCE, GROUP Alive

Chick Corea Akoustic Band
1991 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE BEST JAZZ KEYBOARD

Chick Corea
1990 JAZZTIMES READERS POLL #1 BEST ACOUSTIC PIANO

Chick Corea
1990 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL TOP JAZZ KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1990 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL OVERALL BEST KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1990 JAZZTIMES READERS POLL #1 BEST KEYBOARD SYNTHESIZER

Chick Corea
1990 JAZZTIMES READERS POLL #1 BEST ELECTRIC PIANO

Chick Corea
1990 GOLD RECORD AWARD FOR SALES IN EXCESS OF 500,000 UNITS IN THE USA Romantic Warrior

Return To Forever
1990 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ FUSION PERFORMANCE Inside Out

Chick Corea Elektric Band
1990 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT Inside Out
Tale Of The Daring Part 1-4 Chick Corea
1990 DOWNBEAT READERS POLL #2 BEST SYNTHESIZER

Chick Corea
1990 DOWNBEAT READERS POLL #1 BEST ELECTRIC JAZZ GROUP

Chick Corea
1990 SWING JOURNAL CRITICS POLL (JAPAN) BEST KEYBOARD PLAYER

Chick Corea
1990 SWING JOURNAL MAGAZINE (JAPAN) #3 JAZZMAN OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1990 SWING JOURNAL READERS POLL (JAPAN) BEST KEYBOARD PLAYER

Chick Corea
1990 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL TOP JAZZ PIANIST

Chick Corea
1990 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL (JAPAN) #2 BEST KEYBOARD PLAYER

Chick Corea
1990 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL (JAPAN) #1 IN JAZZ FIELD

Chick Corea
1989 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL BEST OVERALL KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1989 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL BEST JAZZ KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1989 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE, GROUP Akoustic Band

Chick Corea Akoustic Band
1989 SWING JOURNAL MAGAZINE (JAPAN) #2 ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1989 SWING JOURNAL MAGAZINE (JAPAN) #1 BEST KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1989 SWING JOURNAL MAGAZINE (JAPAN) #3 BEST ACOUSTIC PIANO

Chick Corea
1989 SWING JOURNAL MAGAZINE (JAPAN) #3 JAZZMAN OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1989 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION Akoustic Band
Morning Sprite Chick Corea
1989 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE, SOLO Akoustic Band
Sophisticated Lady Chick Corea
1989 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL BEST JAZZ PIANO

Chick Corea
1988 AD LIB MAGAZINE (JAPAN) BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM Eye Of The Beholder
Chick Corea Elektric Band
1988 DOWNBEAT READERS POLL BEST ELECTRIC GROUP

Chick Corea Elektric Band
1988 DOWNBEAT READERS POLL BEST ELECTRIC PIANO

Chick Corea
1988 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION Eye Of The Beholder Eternal Child Chick Corea Elektric Band
1988 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE BEST KEYBOARD ALBUM Eye Of The Beholder
Chick Corea Elektric Band
1988 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE, GROUP Eye Of The Beholder Amnesia Chick Corea Elektric Band
1988 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL BEST JAZZ KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1988 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL BEST OVERALL KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1988 JAZZ LIFE MAGAZINE READERS POLL MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1988 AD LIB MAGAZINE (JAPAN) BEST ALBUM Eye Of The Beholder
Chick Corea Elektric Band
1988 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BEST R&B INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE GRP Super Live in Concert
Light Years Chick Corea Elektric Band
1987 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL BEST JAZZ KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1987 DOWNBEAT CRITICS POLL INTERNATIONAL BEST ELECTRIC PIANIST

Chick Corea
1987 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL BEST OVERALL KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1987 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE, GROUP Trio Music, Live In Europe
Elektric City Chick Corea Elektric Band
1987 DOWNBEAT CRITICS & READERS POLL BEST ELECTRIC PIANIST

Chick Corea
1987 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST POP INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE, GROUP Light Years

Chick Corea Elektric Band
1986 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL BEST OVERALL KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1986 DOWNBEAT READERS POLL BEST ELECTRIC PIANIST

Chick Corea
1986 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL BEST LEAD SYNTHESIST

Chick Corea
1986 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL BEST KEYBOARD ALBUM The Chick Corea Elektric Band
Chick Corea Elektric Band
1986 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL BEST JAZZ & POP KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1986 JAZZIZ READERS POLL BEST ELECTRIC KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1986 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION The Chick Corea Elektric Band Elektric City Chick Corea Elektric Band
1986 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITION Septet
Chick Corea
1986 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ FUSION PERFORMANCE The Chick Corea Elektric Band
Chick Corea Elektric Band
1985 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE READERS POLL BEST JAZZ PIANIST

Chick Corea
1985 SWING JOURNAL MAGAZINE (JAPAN) BEST ACOUSTIC PIANIST

Chick Corea
1985 KEYBOARD MAGAZINE GALLERY OF THE GREATS BEST ELECTRIC KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1985 EUROPE JAZZ FORUM READER POLL BEST ELECTRIC PIANIST

Chick Corea
1985 YAMAHA MUSIC AWARDS FOR POP/JAZZ OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT Light as a Feather
Spain Return To Forever
1985 EUROPE JAZZ FORUM READER POLL COMPOSER OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1985 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE GROUP Voyage

Chick Corea w/ Steve Kujala
1984 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCE Lyric Suite for Sextet

Chick Corea & Gary Burton
1983 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE, SOLOIST Trio Music

Chick Corea
1983 WBFO/FM 88 RADIO, BUFFALO, NY BEST ELECTRIC PIANIST

Chick Corea
1982 DOWNBEAT CRITICS POLL BEST ELECTRIC PIANO KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1981 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE, GROUP In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979

Chick Corea & Gary Burton
1980 PLAYBOY READERS POLL BEST JAZZ KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1980 CONTEMPORARY KEYBOARDS READERS POLL BEST ELECTRIC PIANIST

Chick Corea
1980 CONTEMPORARY KEYBOARD MAGAZINE GALLERY OF THE GREATS

Chick Corea
1980 DOWNBEAT CRITICS POLL INTERNATIONAL BEST ELECTRIC PIANIST

Chick Corea
1980 SWING JOURNAL CRITICS POLL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979

Chick Corea & Gary Burton
1980 DOWNBEAT CRITICS & READERS POLL BEST ELECTRIC PIANIST

Chick Corea
1979 SWING JOURNAL MAGAZINE (JAPAN) JAZZMAN OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1979 DOWNBEAT READERS POLL BEST JAZZ ELECTRIC KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1979 THE DRUMMER BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTALIST

Chick Corea
1979 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE, GROUP

Duet Chick Corea & Gary Burton
1979 CONTEMPORARY KEYBOARDS BEST KEYBOARD ALBUM

Chick Corea
1979 PELO NEWSPAPER, AMSTERDAM RECORD OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1979 GRAMMY NOMINATION
BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION Secret Agent
Central Park Chick Corea
1979 PLAYBOY MUSIC POLL BEST JAZZ KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1979 CONTEMPORARY KEYBOARDS BEST ELECTRIC PIANIST

Chick Corea
1978 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE, GROUP Friends
Friends Chick Corea
1978 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION Friends
Friends Chick Corea
1978 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST ARRANGEMENT ON AN INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING The Mad Hatter
Mad Hatter Rhapsody Chick Corea
1978 CONTEMPORARY KEYBOARDS BEST ELECTRIC KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1978 DOWNBEAT READERS POLL BEST ELECTRIC PIANIST

Chick Corea
1978 SWING JOURNAL MAGAZINE (JAPAN) JAZZMAN OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1978 DOWNBEAT READERS POLL COMPOSER OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1977 PLAYBOY READERS POLL BEST JAZZ COMPOSER

Chick Corea
1977 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION Musicmagic
Musicmagic Return To Forever
1977 RECORD WORLD BEST PIANIST

Chick Corea
1977 PLAYBOY READERS POLL BEST JAZZ GROUP

Return To Forever
1977 PLAYBOY READERS POLL BEST JAZZ KEYBOARDIST

Chick Corea
1976 DOWNBEAT CRITICS POLL ELECTRIC PIANIST OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1976 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BEST ARRANGEMENT OF AN INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING The Leprechaun
Leprechaun's Dream Chick Corea
1976 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BEST JAZZ PERFORMANCE BY A GROUP The Leprechaun

Chick Corea
1975 GRAMMY AWARD WINNER BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE GROUP No Mystery

Return To Forever
1975 PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE MUSIC POLL BEST JAZZ ACT OF 1975

Return To Forever
1975 TRIAD MAGAZINE ROCK/JAZZ POLL KEYBOARDIST OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1975 TOP PEOPLE, JAZZ FORUM MAGAZINE COMPOSER OF THE WORLD

Chick Corea
1975 DOWN BEAT CRITICS & READERS POLL COMPOSER OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1974 MELODY MAKER JAZZ POLL (ENGLAND) PIANIST OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1974 JAZZ FORUM MAGAZINE MUSIC POLL JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE WORLD

Chick Corea
1974 DOWNBEAT CRITICS & READERS POLL COMPOSER OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1973 DOWNBEAT READERS POLL INTERNATIONAL JAZZMAN OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1973 PLAYBOY READERS POLL BEST INSTRUMENTAL GROUP

Return to Forever
1973 DOWNBEAT READERS POLL INTERNATIONAL PIANIST OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1973 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT Light as a Feather
Spain Return To Forever
1973 DOWNBEAT CRITICS & READERS POLL COMPOSER OF THE YEAR

Chick Corea
1973 CONCERT MAGAZINE MUSIC BEST NEW GROUP

Return To Forever
1973 GRAMMY NOMINATION BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE, GROUP Light as a Feather
Spain Return To Forever

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