Stephanie has brought this documentary film to fruition to remind jazz fans of what a potent force Chapin was on the '90s jazz scene. --Bill Milkowski, DownBeat
Jazz at Lincoln Center will screen the award-winning music documentary Night Bird Song: The Incandescent Life of Thomas Chapin on Friday, March 10th. The free showing will be at 7 p.m. at the Irene Diamond Education Center at the Frederick P. Rose Hall on Broadway at 60th Street, 5th floor (Columbus Circle).
Seating is limited to 160 attendees and will be on a first-come basis. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo, an EMMY-winning director, and her co-producer/co-writer Noel M. Izon, also a veteran documentary filmmaker.
The event marks a full year of U.S. and international screenings of the film and celebrates Thomas Chapin’s 60th birthday anniversary (March 9). He died from leukemia in 1998 at age 40.
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s online announcement called the film “inspired” and reed master Chapin a “highly influential, yet supremely underrated artist.”
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s education director Seton Hawkins invited Castillo to show her all-new 96-minute version of the film after adult students taking courses at the center asked to see more documentaries that would expand their knowledge of jazz history. Castillo’s original cut of Night Bird Song was shown throughout 2016 and runs 150 minites.
“We’re so honored to be showing this new version at the Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Seating is limited to 160 attendees and will be on a first-come basis. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo, an EMMY-winning director, and her co-producer/co-writer Noel M. Izon, also a veteran documentary filmmaker.
The event marks a full year of U.S. and international screenings of the film and celebrates Thomas Chapin’s 60th birthday anniversary (March 9). He died from leukemia in 1998 at age 40.
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s online announcement called the film “inspired” and reed master Chapin a “highly influential, yet supremely underrated artist.”
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s education director Seton Hawkins invited Castillo to show her all-new 96-minute version of the film after adult students taking courses at the center asked to see more documentaries that would expand their knowledge of jazz history. Castillo’s original cut of Night Bird Song was shown throughout 2016 and runs 150 minites.
“We’re so honored to be showing this new version at the Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Thomas Chapin
saxophone1957 - 1998
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