Results for "Thomas Chapin Trio"

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Live at Newport, 1995

Featuring the music of Thomas Chapin Trio
Duration: 2:22
March 13, 2007

Thomas Chapin Trio at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1995. Thomas considered this appearance a great highlight full of promise. The Trio, with Mario Pavone and Michael Sarin, opened the show and wowed the audience with their originality. Watch Thomas' hommage to his hero Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Little known behind-the-scene credit goes to John Phillips of Festival Productions who fully supported Thomas' growth and quietly guided him onto the festival stages in NY and the world, and who has given us permission use this clip.

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Thomas Chapin Trio: Ride

by Jeff Stockton
February 4, 2007

When leukemia claimed Thomas Chapin at the age of forty in 1998, his mixture of the avant garde and the accessible placed him and his rhythm section at the verge of jazz stardom. Already a downtown NYC legend, Chapin was among the first artists to perform at the Knitting Factory and the first to be signed ...

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Thomas Chapin Trio: Ride

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 26, 2006

Tomas Chapin, talentuoso multistrumentista deceduto nel 1998 a soli quarant’anni per un male incurabile, non solo ha attraversato la scena downtown newyorchese con la passione e la vitalità della propria visione musicale, ma i suoi dischi e i suoi concerti hanno marchiato indelebilmente un decennio ricco di fermenti e di svolte importanti negli sviluppi della musica ...

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Thomas Chapin Trio: Ride

by Jerry D'Souza
August 18, 2006

Thomas Chapin cast a giant shadow on this concert recorded at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 1995. Chapin brought bassist Mario Pavone and drummer Michael Sarin along--a stellar cast which delivered a stellar performance. Chapin, who passed away in 1998, had the imagination that took his compositions into different realms. He never let freedom get ...

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Thomas Chapin Trio: Ride

by Chris May
July 9, 2006

Whooooah! To keep up with saxophonist/flautist Thomas Chapin on this one, you're going to need some of those monkey adrenal glands Hunter S. Thompson wrote about, or at the very least a seat belt and a note from your mom. Ride--and if ever an album deserved an exclamation mark at the end of its title, this ...

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Thomas Chapin Trio: Night Bird Song

by David Adler
October 1, 1999

Saxophonist/flautist Thomas Chapin died of leukemia in February 1998 at the age of 40. Night Bird Song is a posthumous release of a 1992 recording session, and it’s beautiful, confirming Chapin’s stature as an immortal jazz artist. With Chapin on alto and sopranino saxophones, flute, and alto flute, Mario Pavone on bass, and Michael Sarin on ...

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Thomas Chapin Trio: Night Bird Song

by Glenn Astarita
August 1, 1999

A few weeks after his soon to be – critically acclaimed – “Sky Piece” was released in 1998, saxophonist-composer Thomas Chapin passed away, following his yearlong bout with Leukemia. After several years of journeyman status with the likes of notables such as Lionel Hampton, Anthony Braxton and Chico Hamilton, Chapin finally attained widespread recognition with his ...