The Jazz June


The Jazz June is an American emo band from Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
In 2016, Rolling Stone placed the band's album The Medicine at number 33 on its list of the 40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time.

History

The Jazz June was formed in 1996 by students attending Kutztown University. The group recorded its first full-length album in 1997, and in 1998 issued the first of three releases for Initial Records. They disbanded in 2003 after four full-length albums, but reunited for benefit shows in 2006 and the release of an outtakes-and-rarities compilation the following year. In 2014, the group announced they were reforming and releasing new material on Topshelf Records.

Name

The band's name is derived from a passage in the Gwendolyn Brooks poem "We Real Cool."

Members