News 6/2008 We’ll be playing our first show at the Garfield Artworks on Sunday June 8. We’re opening up for a great Bloomington Indiana combo, Nowlin-Mulholland Quintet.  Great tunes, check them out.  Hey!  It’s all ages!  Details Here.  We also finally have a myspace page, where there are some full length tunes from the new CD.  Check it out here. 5/2008 Some nice reviews for the new disc:  Post-Gazette, and City Paper. 1/2008 The release party for our new CD, Several Other Sounds, will be at the Thunderbird Cafe on Thursday March 20. Details here. 12/2007: New CD Available Our new CD, "Several Other Sounds" is now available. It’s our first CD in 4 years and our first studio record. It has 15 tracks, almost one hour of eclectic music including composed material, free improv, and poetry. It’s available now for purchase as a CD at Amazon, or in downloadable form from iTunes (domestically and internationally), Amazon, Emusic, and eventually Rhapsody. “Several Other Sounds” features: Richard Dannenberg: cello, violin; Roger Dannenberg: trumpet, flugelhorn; Victor  Garzotto: piano; Romella Kitchens: vox; Jay Matula: drums, percussion; Jeff Stringer: bass, guitar; Rich Strong: drums, percussion; Michael Wurster: vox We’ll have more details including info on a CD Release Party soon. 3/2007 Greetings, it has been a while.  But we’re still alive and kicking and will be trying to prove it on Thursday March 15, 7:30pm at Club Cafe. Since this will be the first gig in a long time without our guest poets, we’ll be bringing the big amps. This show will again feature the multi-of-talent and freshly-of-faced Richard Dannenberg on violin and cello.  Opening up will be my good friend, Eric Riebling’s Improv Project.  See details here. Also, I’ve moved the sample songs from the various places on the site to one spot.  check out the Tunes section for one-stop listening to our music. 5/2006 On Wednesday May 24, Cap Gun Quartet and poet Romella D. Kitchens will once again team up for a poetry and music intertwining at Club Cafe. The band will actually be a sextet, including both Richard Strong and Jay Matula on Drums and percussion systems, and introducing Richard Dannenberg on the cello. See details here. For the last show (see below) Bob karlovits of the Trib-Review wrote a nice preview piece and then came to the show and wrote a review which mentioned “. . . the edgy play of bassist Jeff Stringer and Trumpeter Roger Dannenberg wrapped around the poetry like telling Punctuation.” Thanks Bob! 12/2005 On Thursday December 29, Cap Gun Quartet Meets the Poets at Club Cafe. This time around, we will be accompanying two of Pittsburgh Finest, Michael Wurster and Romella D. Kitchens.  The musical interaction with the poetry is both improvised and composed.  Check out some samples from a previous show below. Joining us on Keys will be Christopher McDonald, fresh from Chicago via Boston. But Wait!  There’s more! We will be playing the early show at Club Cafe, and our good friend Evan Knauer of ATS will be hosting a singer/songwriter evening for the late show. We’ve arranged with Club Cafe that folks who arrive during our show can stay for Evan’s show without being shaken down for another $5.  Two shows for the price of one! We’re calling it Crossing Over. So get away from the relatives and prepare for New Year’s Eve.  Check here for details. 11/2005 Jay Matula did a nice recording of the October 15 gig with Poet Romella D. Kitchens. Here are a couple of the full tunes in mp3 format. A Love Poem For Planet Earth (4.3MB) Old Love Songs (5.3 MB) 10/2005 On October 15 we’ll be trying something new, well for us anyway.  We’re going to back Poet Extraordinaire Romella D. Kitchens at a benefit for Autumn House Press which is a national poetry press based in Pittsburgh. We’ll be improvising and playing composed music and generally interacting with Romella and her poetry.  In addition, world famous poets with Pittsburgh connections including Gerald Stern, a National Book Award winner, Terrance Hayes, and Richard Jackson will be reading their poetry. The show starts with us including our old pal Jay Matula on percussion at 8 pm.  Check out the details here. Ah Yes, when it rains it pours . . . Also on October 15, A.T.S. is having their 20th Year reunion at the 31st Pub.  I hear Steve Heineman and Josh Arnson will be back with assorted guests (including yours truly if they let me).  The show starts at 10 pm so start the evening with some poetry and end with rolling rock and A.T.S. at the Skull Room. Check out the details here. 12/2004 We’re starting the week of December 13th off right with a Monday show at Club Cafe.  we’re playing with Black Ireland, a great Jazz trio. Come see our newest member--a robotic Bagpipe! Check out the details here. 4/2004 We’re happy to announce a  May 20 show at Club Cafe. It will be a great night of crazy jazz, with my Water Shed mate Ben Opie’s Thoth Trio. and to add extra sauce the show will be opened by Lee Robinson & The Unspunt Orkestra. Check out the details here. 1/2004 There is a nice article  about the band in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  Read it Here. 12/2003 Club Cafe and the Sprout Fund are once again hosting a local band extravaganza in January.  Lots of bands in 31days. We’ll be playing on Friday January 9th and it’s extra special  because it will be the first show with our new pianist--Christopher McDonald.  See Details Here. 9/2003 Join Jeff as he dusts off  the acoustic guitar to play some Cap Gun tunes and other oddities at the Quiet  Storm on Saturday September 27th. Not since the days of Active Ingredient or John Thursday will people be heard to say, “I thought you were a bass player?”  See details here. 7/2003 We’re proud and somewhat surprised to be included on a compilation CD put together by the Sprout Fund.  Our cut of “I Love Jesus (& You Should Too)” rubs elbows with the likes of Daryl Fleming, The Breakup Society, Beam, Phat Mandee, Strict Flow and lots of other great groups.  Check it out here