Cap'n Jazz

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Cap'n Jazz
General information
Genre (s) Emo , indie rock
founding 1989
resolution 1995
Website www.joanfrc.com/capnjazz
Last occupation
Tim Kinsella
Davey von Bohlen
Victor Villarreal
Sam back
Mike Kinsella

Cap'n Jazz was an American emo band from Chicago , Illinois , from which several well-known bands and solo artists emerged.

Band history

Cap'n Jazz was short-lived, but all the more influential, because the group helped significantly to transform emo from an underground punk subgenre into a recognized variety of indie rock, while the larger part of the emo scene did Stayed true to hardcore punk . The discography is sparse, but this gave the band a certain underground status.

The first Cap'n Jazz line-up was in Chicago around 1989 and consisted of the brothers Tim and Mike Kinsella, Sam Zurick and Victor Villarreal. All of them were still young people at the time and went to school. They changed the band's name several times and later took Davey von Bohlen into the formation, but it was a few more years before they had developed further musically. After all, they enjoyed cult status in the Chicago and Midwestern scene in the early 1990s . Tim Kinsella's cryptic puns and amateurish voice became the trademark of the group and gave it an idiosyncratic polarizing character.

In the 1990s, the band recorded a few singles with tiny independent labels and contributed song material to several indie and emo compilations. In 1995 they released their first and only album Shmap'n Shmazz on Man With Gun Records . The album also had a second very long and incomprehensible title, which was therefore mostly ignored. The record quickly became a collector's item. Cap'n Jazz separated shortly afterwards in July 1995 in Little Rock , Arkansas . The group was supposed to be playing Das Yutes A Go-Go at the local punk meeting point .

In 1998, Jade Tree Records released a double CD as a retrospective entitled Illphabetapolothology . Included were all of the band's studio recordings such as B. the entire Shmap'n Shmazz album, singles, split releases, compilation contributions, as well as previously unreleased demos or outtakes and selected songs from their farewell concert in Chicago. All former band members got involved in very well-known emo projects, so that the influence of Cap'n Jazz reached far beyond the breakup.

Due to the re-release of Illphabetapolothology on vinyl, the band got together for some reunion concerts. The first concert took place on January 22nd, 2010.

Follow-up band

Discography

Albums

  • 1998: Illiteracy Polothology (Jade Tree Records)
  • 1994: Shmap'n Shmazz aka Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped on and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over (Man With Gun Records)

Singles

  • 1993: Boys 16 to 18 Years ... Age of Action ( Further Beyond Records )
  • 1993: Sometimes If You Stand Further Away From Something, It Does Not Seem As Big. Sometimes You Can Stand So Close To Something You Can Not Tell What You Are Looking At. ( Underdog Records )
  • 1993: We Are Scientists (Underdog Records)

Compilation Contributions

  • 1995: Hey Ma Do I Have To Choke On These - We've Lost Beauty ( File 13 )
  • 1995: Theme From 90210 - Punk TV ( Red Dawg Records )
  • 1993: Winter Wonderland - A Very Punk Christmas EP (Further Beyond Records)
  • 1993: Bluegrass - Ghost Dance ( Slave Cut Records )
  • 1993: Scary Kids Scaring Kids - It's A Punk Thing ( Shakefork Records )
  • 1993: Rocky Rococo - Nothing Dies With Blue Skies Split (Shakefork Records)
  • 1993: Soria - Picking More Daisies (Further Beyond Records)
  • 1993: In The Clear / No Use For A Piano Player When You Got A Player Piano - How the Midwest Was Won ( Playing Field Recordings )
  • 1993: Naive - attention Chicago! Two! (Underdog Records)

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