Family tree of Jim CHAPIN

Singer & Musician

American Born James Forbes CHAPIN

American jazz drummer and the author of popular texts on jazz drumming

Born on Wednesday, July 23, 1919 in New York City, New York, USA , United States

Died on July 04, 2009

Born on July 23 30

Deceased on July 04 48

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Chapin

Hummiston

1813 - 1863

Wing

Sarah Hunt

1815 - 1861

Ryder

Calvin

1814 -

Rebecca N.

1821 -

Chapin

James Ayrault

1848 - 1921

Ryder

Delia S.

1858 -

Chapin

James Ormsbee

1887 - 1975

Forbes

Abigail

Chapin

James Forbes

1919 - 2009

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Chapin was the son of Abigail Forbes and James Ormsbee Chapin. Chapin did not begin playing the drums until he was 18 years old, after being inspired by legendary drummer Gene Krupa. Jim left William and Mary College in early 1938 after skipping classes regularly in order to obey a massive compulsion to batter a set of drums that a classmate had left set up in the gymnasium. Chapin was a student of Ben Silver and Sanford A. Moeller, renowned rudimentalist, who popularized the Moeller method, and within two years he was playing opposite Krupa at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York.

© Copyright Wikipédia authors - This article is under licence CC BY-SA 3.0 ... Chapin was the son of Abigail Forbes and James Ormsbee Chapin. Chapin did not begin playing the drums until he was 18 years old, after being inspired by legendary drummer Gene Krupa. Jim left William and Mary College in early 1938 after skipping classes regularly in order to obey a massive compulsion to batter a set of drums that a classmate had left set up in the gymnasium. Chapin was a student of Ben Silver and Sanford A. Moeller, renowned rudimentalist, who popularized the Moeller method, and within two years he was playing opposite Krupa at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York.