March 9 – born in Manchester, CT.

Phillips Academy (Andover, MA)

Hartt College of Music (CT)

Rutgers University (New Jersey)

Saxophonists Jackie McLean & Paul Jeffrey, pianist Kenny Baron, guitarist Ted Dunbar and Latin percussionist Louis Bauzo

Thomas Chapin Trio
Cheney Hall Benefit Concert
(Manchester, CT)
Feb. 1, 1998 – Thomas’ last
performance, one tune, “Aeolus,”
w/Mario Pavone (bass) &
Michael Sarin (drums)

Thomas Chapin & Mario Pavone (duo)
Panasonic Jazz Festival (NYC-Knit Fac)

Thomas Chapin Trio Plus Brass
JVC Jazz Festival (NYC-Bryant Park)
Litchfield Jazz Festival (CT)

Thomas Chapin & Borah Bergman (duo)
Du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival (Canada)

Thomas Chapin Trio
JVC Jazz Festival (NYC)
Umbria Jazz Festival (Italy)

Thomas Chapin Trio
Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, RI) [Cable program aired nationally 1995-96]
What Is Jazz Festival (Knitting Factory, NYC)
Jazz a Vienne (France)
North Sea Jazz Festival (Holland)
Molde Jazz Festival (Norway)
Pori Jazz Festival (Finland)
Tondela Arts Festival (Portugal)
Knitting Factory Tour of Europe

Thomas Chapin Trio
JVC Jazz Festival (NYC)
North Sea Festival
Glasgow Jazz Festival (Scotland)
Tampere Jazz Festival (Finland)
Tallinn Jazz Festival (Estonia)
SJU Concert Jazz Festival (Utrecht, Holland)
Knitting Factory Tour of Europe

Thomas Chapin Quartet
w/Peter Madsen (piano), Kiyoto Fujiwara (bass),
Reggie Nicholson (drums)
On Feb. ’94, TC Quartet performs at the closing night
of the historic Village Gate jazz club at Thompson &
Bleecker location in Greenwhich Village, opened in
1958 by Art D’Lugoff

Thomas Chapin Trio
DuMaurier Jazz Festival (Vancouver)
North Sea Jazz Festival
Vittoria Jazz Festival (Spain)
Frankfurt Festival (Germany)
Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao (Japan)
Honolulu Academy of the Arts (Hawaii)
What Is Jazz Festival (Knitting Factory, NYC)

Thomas Chapin Trio
North Sea Jazz Festival
Ottawa Jazz Festival (Canada)
Wolf Trap Jazz Festival (U.S.)
Knitting Factory Festival Tour of the U.S.
What is Jazz Festival (Knitting Factory, NYC)

Thomas Chapin Trio
Toulon Jazz Festival (France)
JVC Jazz Festival (NYC)
Knitting Factory Tour of Europe
What is Jazz Festival (Knitting Factory, NYC)

Thomas Chapin Trio
JVC Jazz Festival at The Knitting Factory (NYC)
JVC/Newport Jazz Festival at Saratoga Springs(NY)

Thomas Chapin & Spirits Rebellious
Real Art Ways Jazz Festival (CT)

Chico Hamilton Quartet
Tour of Europe
Charlotte Jazz Festival (U.S.)

Thomas Chapin Sextet
JVC Jazz Festival at Saratoga Springs (NY)

Performances with Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Walter Thompson Big Band, Motation (Connecticut musicians), Alborada Latino (w/Thad & Francesca Wheeler), Carlota Santana (flamenco dancer & troupe), Flamenco Latino (w/Basilio Georges & Aaurora Reyes), Borah Bergman and Bob Moses

Thomas Chapin
solo tours to Venezuela
and Costa Rica

Thomas Chapin Sextet
Greenwich Village Jazz Festival ’83
The Blue Note, w/ Junior Mance Duo

Lionel Hampton Orchestra (as musical director/lead saxophonist-flautist)
Tours of Europe, Japan, Mexico, South America and U.S.
Festivals, including Kool Jazz (USA), Newport Jazz Festival (RI), Nice Jazz Festival (France), North Sea Jazz Festival (The Hague, Holland), Aurex Jazz Festival (Japan), etc.,
Television/radio broadcasts and recordings

Lionel Hampton All Stars (New Orleans)
Paul Jeffrey Big Band (NYC)
Livingston College Jazz Ensemble (lead alto) (NJ)
Zasis Improvisatory Ensemble (NYC and New England)
Spiral (New Music Group using Baschet Brothers Sound Sculptures) – (also featuring Steve Swallow on bass)
Jazz Clarion (Hartford Conservatory)
Talking Drums (Latin Jazz)
Tour of Europe (1978) w/Dalton School Jazz Ensemble (NYC)
Tour of Russia (1975) w/Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble (New England Conservatory, Boston)
Protean Theatre (Hartford, CT)
Bassett Watts Hough Prize (for excellence in woodwind playing) – Phillips Academy (Andover, MA)

ZASIS*
New England musical improvisatory ensemble w/
Thomas Chapin, woodwinds
Rob Kaplan, keyboards
Bill Sloat, bass
Thad Wheeler, percussion

*reunion performance at Knitting Factory in 1991,
w/Geoffrey Gordon, percussion

“Newport Jazz Festival” Full-Length Film
Produced by Festival Productions/John Phillips,
directed by Richard Buxenbaum.
Considered a milestone performance in his career,
Thomas Chapin Trio opens this Fest in 1995, w/Mario
Pavone and Michael Sarin. In humble hommage to hero
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Chapin plays two horns at once
in “Night Bird Song.” Shown on Public Television.
Video excerpt in ALIVE boxed set on “Live! on Tour”
CD. (View excerpt here in section “Galleries/
Video.”)

“Thomas Chapin in Hawaii” Hawaii Public Television short, documentary film
Produced and directed by Stephanie Castillo, (color, 10 mins.)
Trio performance footage from Honolulu Academy of Arts; Thomas and friends improvize a fun “concert” with soda bottles atop the windy Pali [cliff]. (View at www.youtube.com.)

“Dancing Chicken Man” Short, documentary videotape
Produced and directed by Terri Castillo-Chapin
(color, 10 mins.)
Fanciful, but serious, discoveries by Thomas Chapin about improvisation and performance; “Sometimes I feel like a ‘dancing chicken’. “

“Music Man/Thomas Chapin” Award-winning short, documentary film
Produced and directed by Terri Castillo-Chapin
(color, 12 mins.)
Portrait of Thomas Chapin as music maker and his relationship to sound and ordinary objects, also in relation to art collage. Pre-Trio period when Chapin was exploring Braziilian rhythms w/ “Spirits Rebellious” group. Musicans appearing: Saul Rubin, guitar; Thad Wheeler, percussion; and Arthur Kell, bass. (View film here in section: Galleries/Video. View art collages here in section: Galleries/Art)

“School Crossing” Award-winning short, documentary film
Produced and directed by Terri Castillo-Chapin; 5 mins. color. Music soundtrack by Thomas Chapin (gong, flute, electric piano, voice).
Montage images set to music of a small NYC village (Jackson Heights, Queens) waking up centering around the school crossing guard (Fran Frady), with ariel views of central crosswalk and crossing guard, and village rooftops w/Manhattan in distance, Catholic school, uniformed children, yellow school buses and parents walking with or dropping off children at school. Simple, haunting, yet lively music by Thomas Chapin.

Recipient of performance grant from NEA for Trio concerts

Recipient of music grant from NEA for study of Afro-Carribean percussion with Louis Bauzo

Recipient of music grant from NEA for composing and recording Spirits Rebellious album

“10 Compositions” book of original compositions by Thomas Chapin.
Copyright © Peace Park Publishing-BMI.