# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-chapin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:48:13.701Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-chapin"
name: "Jim Chapin"
slug: "jim-chapin"
description: "James Forbes Chapin was an American jazz drummer and the author of books about jazz drumming. He is in the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame and was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2011."
tagline: "American musician (1919–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_chapin_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1919-07-23"
deathDate: "2009-07-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.363861333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86"
    title: "جيم شابن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86"
    title: "جيم شابن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chapin"
    title: "Jim Chapin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chapin"
    title: "Jim Chapin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chapin"
    title: "Jim Chapin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chapin"
    title: "Jim Chapin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chapin"
    title: "Jim Chapin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chapin_(musigan)"
    title: "Jim Chapin (musigan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4832fd0b-aa9c-4a2d-a9e7-514afc8affb8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505946"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump