Please note, for the photo and art galleries, you must have the Flash plug-in installed and for the Video gallery, Quicktime.
SPECIAL: LISTEN to BBC BROADCAST TRIBUTE of Thomas Chapin in 2008, go to “Links” page.
To view VIDEO “JAZZ MAN: Thomas Chapin in Hawaii-1993,” go to “Links” page/Olena Productions.
For POETRY by Thomas Chapin and “In His Own Words,” an anthology of Thomas’ words, go to “Bio” section.
To LISTEN to 60-second snippets of Thomas Chapin’s music from ALIVE boxed set, go to “Music” and click on Launch the Jukebox. You can “minimize” the Jukebox while perusing the rest of the site.
Photo
Photos include Thomas Chapin’s childhood and family, as a young musician, as musical director with Lionel Hampton, and in later and Trio years.
Art
Thomas began making serious collage art in the mid-80s. He was self-taught and inspired by artists like Joseph Cornell, the Surrealists and Dadaists, and his own brother, Ted Chapin, an architect and 3-D collage artist. Thomas used store-bought tissue and wrapping paper, found paper and paper objects, cut-outs from magazine, rubber stamps, crayon and paint. The eight collages shown here were created in 1997, the year of his illness, and appear in the posthumous 8-CD boxed set, ALIVE.
Video
Included are live and documentary clips. View “Thomas Chapin Trio at Newport Jazz Festival-1995” and “Music Man: Thomas Chapin” a 12-minute documentary film directed by Terri Castillo Chapin in 1990.