Discography

as a leader

Ride (2006) Playscape Recordings
Thomas Chapin Trio at North Sea Jazz Festival ’95
w/Mario Pavone and Michael Sarin

Live! On Tour (1999) Akasha Records*
Trio at UC-Davis ’92 – included as “bonus CD” in Alive boxed set
w/Pavone & Sarin

Alive (8 cd boxed set) (1999) Akasha Records*
Thomas Chapin Trio, Thomas Chapin Trio Plus Brass, Thomas Chapin
Trio Plus Strings

Night Bird Song (1998) Akasha Records*
Thomas Chapin Trio
w/Pavone & Sarin

Sky Piece (1998) Akasha Records*
Thomas Chapin Trio
w/Pavone & Sarin

Haywire (1996) Akasha Records*
Thomas Chapin Trio Plus Strings
w/Pavone, Sarin, Mark Feldman, Boris Rayskin, Kyoto Fujiwara

You Don’t Know Me (1995) Arabesque Jazz
(quintet) w/Tom Harrell, Kiyoto Fujiwara, Peter Madsen and Reggie Nicholson

Menagerie Dreams (1994) Akasha Records
Thomas Chapin Trio w/Pavone & Sarin,
featuring John Zorn & poet Vern Frazier

I’ve Got Your Number (1993) Arabesque Jazz
(quartet) w/Ronnie Mathews, Ray Drummond, Steve Johns

Insomnia (1993) Akasha Records*
Thomas Chapin Trio Plus Brass
w/Pavone, Sarin, Al Bryant, Frank London, Curtis Fowlkes,
Peter McEchearn, Marcus Rojas, Ray Stewart

Anima (1992) Akasha Records*
Thomas Chapin Trio (w/Pavone, Sarin & Steve Johns)

Third Force (1991) Akasha Records*
Thomas Chapin Trio (w/Pavone & Steve Johns)

Radius (1990) MU Works
(quartet) w/Ronnie Mathews, Ray Drummond, John Betsch

Spirits Rebellious (1988) Alacra Records
(ensemble) w/Arthur Kell, Saul Rubin, Thad Wheeler, Francesca Wheeler, Geoffrey Gordon

Bell of the Heart (1981) Alacra Records

compilations

The Knitting Factory Goes to Vassar (1992) Knitting Factory Works

What is Jazz? (1991) Knitting Factory Works

Knitting Factory Tour of Europe (1991) Knitting Factory Works

“Live” Vol. III (1990) A&M Records
Thomas Chapin Trio – “Insomnia”

“Live” Vol. IV (1990) A&M Records
w/Ned Rothenberg Double Band

duo

w/ Borah Bergman
Inversions (1992) MU Works
Toronto 1997 (2003) Boxholder Records

as a featured artist

w/ Lionel Hampton
Air Mail Special (1991) ITM
Ambassador at Large (1990) Glad Hamp
Made in Japan (1990) Timeless, Glad Hamp, King
One of a Kind (1989) Glad Hamp
Sentimental Journey (1986) Atlantic

w/ Ray Drummond
untitled (1994) Arabesque Jazz

w/ Ned Rothenberg
Live at Moers Jazz Festival (1991) Moers
Overlays (1992) Moers Music
Real and Imagined Time (1995) Moers Music

w/ Mario Pavone
Song For (1994) New World
Toulon Days (1992) New World
Sharpeville (1989) Playscape Recordings – originally released on Alacra

w/ Anthony Braxton – Mario Pavone Quintet
Seven Standards (1995) Knitting Factory Works

w/ Michael Musillami
Glass Art (1993) Evidence
The Young Child (1992) Stash
Archives (1992) originally released by Stash Records as The Young Child, reissued as Archives on Playscape Recordings (2000)
Mars Bars (1994) originally released by Evidence Music as Glassart, reissued as Mars Bars on Playscape Recordings (2000)
Groove Teacher (1999) an original Playscape Recordings release

w/ Motation
Motation Live at the Hillside (1989) Alacra

w/ Vernon Frazer
Song of Baobab (1997) VFCI

w/ Robert Musso
Active Resonance (1991) MU Records

w/ Monie Love
Down to Earth (saxophone soloist) (1990) Warner Bros.

w/ Barbara Dennerlein
Junkanoo (1997) Verve

w/ Kiyoto Fujiwara
60 Miles High (1993) TDK (Japan)

w/ Pablo Aslan & AvantTango
Avantango (1995) EPSA Music

w/ David Lahm
Muscle Memory Hoedown (1992) Generation
Jazz Takes Out Joni Mitchell (1998) Generation

w/ John McCracken & Outloud
Blood From a Tone (1992) MU Works

w/ Peggy Stern
The Fuschia (1995) Koch Jazz

w/ Armen Donelian
Quartet Language (2003) Playscape Recordings

w/ Misako Kano
Breakthrew (1996) King Records (Japan)
Watch Out (1998) Knitting Factory Records

w/ Corina Bartra
Travelogue (1991) Blue Spiral

free group

w/ Machine Gun
Pass the Ammo (1992) MU Works
Open Fire (1989) MU Works
Machine Gun (1988) MU Works
Real Estate – New Music from NYC (compilation) (1990) Ear-rational Records

*Originally with Knitting Factory Works