Performances

TRIO REVIEW, Cleveland, OH '93: Thomas Chapin Trio at the Bop Stop, Cleveland, OH

Not since the days of Roland Kirk, Albert Ayler and the Charles Lloyd of the '60s have Cleveland audiences seen such an exuberant and musically exciting performance as that of the Thomas Chapin Trio at the Bop Stop October 17. You could hear echoes of Kirk, Ayler, Lloyd and Henry Threadgill in Chapin's stylistic approach to the alto sax, soprano and flute — if you were a member of the predominantly youthful audience (mostly in their early 20s) who roared with approval at the mixture of free jazz, bop and r&b, presented with

LIFT OFF! REMEMBERING THOMAS CHAPIN CONCERTS MARK DECADE SINCE THE PASSING OF AVANT JAZZ MASTER

New York, NY - Rarely in a musical movement has a player left an indelible mark on those with whom he collaborated and those listeners with whom he enthralled more than the late NYC avant jazz saxist, Thomas Chapin. To commemorate this gifted, multi- instrumentalist-composer and to mark the decade since his passing, two NYC concerts are planned by his widow, Terri Castillo-Chapin, with the help of Thomas' many friends and musical colleagues.

Thomas Chapin and Mario Pavone: The Ins And Outs of It All

"If New York’s downtown jazz experimentalists ever decide to appoint a missionary to proselytize among the uptown traditionalist masses, they’d be wise to choose Thomas Chapin for the job. The Knitting Factory’s most-favored altoist speaks the neo-cons’ language at least as fluently as they themselves, and adds new words to the vocabulary besides.

JAZZ FESTIVAL: So Different, but Provoking The Same Response: Ovations

"Friday's concert at Bryant Park, part of the JVC Jazz Festival, incited two standing ovations, and the groups that provoked them could hardly have been more different. The saxophonist Thomas Chapin set up dance-like ostinatos to improvise over. And Julius Hemphill, a founder of the World Saxophone Quartet (and its most imaginative member), brought his six-saxophone group to the stage for a set of ruminative, lush pieces featuring his distinctive harmonies.

In Energetic Pursuit Of Anything but Serenity: Thomas Chapin, Saxophonist – Iridium

"The alto saxophonist Thomas Chapin ended his first set on Tuesday night with Charlie Parker’s “Red Cross.” Mr. Chapin began it with a chorus or two of cleanly executed be-bop, rhythmically and harmonically assured and idiomatically correct. Slowly he added newer material, repeating ideas that didn’t always conform to the tune's harmony. Rhythm-and-blues figures, howls and strange, jumping sounds that recalled the playing of the saxophonist Earl Bostic showed up.