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.
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.
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.