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Bad Birdie

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Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2006
Duration: 8:54

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Thomas Chapin Trio: Ride

Read "Ride" reviewed by Chris May


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: Ride

Read "Ride" reviewed by Troy Collins


Recorded live at the Netherlands' North Sea Jazz Festival in 1995, Ride captures Thomas Chapin's legendary trio at the height of its powers. Sharing the bill with such notable masters as Jackie Mclean, Roy Haynes, David Murray, Fred Hopkins and Andrew Cyrille inspired the trio to play with extra enthusiasm. This seven-track program, consisting of the ...

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Article: Wide Open Jazz and Beyond

Thomas Chapin

Read "Thomas Chapin" reviewed by Peter Madsen


As I sit on my hotel balcony overlooking the beautiful German City of Lindau that rests quietly on the sailboat-covered Lake Constance, the grand snowy Alps Mountains rise up in the distance. The water is calm, the mountains majestic and peaceful. The contrast between this postcard-view and the destruction I witnessed yesterday riding on the train ...

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Toronto 1997: A Suite for Thomas Chapin

Label: Boxholder Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Part 1 2. Part 2 3. Part 3 4. Part 4 abc 5. Part 5

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Borah Bergman & Thomas Chapin: Toronto 1997: A Suite for Thomas Chapin

Read "Toronto 1997: A Suite for Thomas Chapin" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz


Death creeps upon us all. Thomas Chapin knew that rather well when in 1997 he appeared at Toronto's Du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival with Borah Bergman. Dying on stage of leukemia, Chapin exhaled massively fractious and powerful liveliness from reeds and flute nonetheless. There are numerous struggles, limitations and even some clear misses in his performance; ...

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Night Bird Song

Label: Knitting Factory
Released: 1999

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Alive

Label: Recorded
Released: 1999

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Thomas Chapin Trio: Night Bird Song

Read "Night Bird Song" reviewed by David Adler


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

Read "Night Bird Song" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


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 ...


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