Zack met Dan Knobler during freshman year at The Fieldston School and they quickly became friends and musical brothers, jamming often and playing gigs whenever and wherever they could find them with a number of other talented young musicians from Fieldston — including Matt Porter (keys) — and other NYC schools. With Dan as leader, this high-energy funk band took shape when they added three dynamite horn players from LaGuardia High School of Music and Art: Matt Chiasson (ts), Danny Rivera (bs) and Jonathan Saraga (tpt). Armand Hirsch, Greg Evans, Andrew Abramowitz, and Mike Mitchell were among the excellent Captain Coconut drummers.

By the time Zack and Dan were freshmen in college, the band had completed two albums of mostly original tunes — several penned by Zack — and had played dozens of gigs in and around New York, including at CBGB’s, the Knitting Factory, Tribeca Rock Club, weddings, private parties, even once at Gracie Mansion when it was occupied by Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

Zack’s compositions are marked with a ★.

• 
  Captain Coconut, Everybody’s Business
  FEATURING:
  “166 & 9th”
  ★ “Double Vision”
  “Stone Don’t Beat” (feat. Jon Seale)
  “Atop An Underground”
  “Direct Drive”
  “Love Me Or Not” (feat. Eva Imber)
  “Everybody’s Business”
  “Rib Shack”
  ★ “Oscar”
  “Bubble Wrap”
  “Ampersand” (Live)
• 
  “Black Sara” at Kenny’s Castaways (video)
  The band won a contest to get this gig and the live video shoot.
• Captain Coconut at P&W’s Sandwich Shop // July 25, 2007
  FEATURING:
  “Instant Grits”
  “Ampersand”
  “166 & 9th”
  ★ “Funky See, Funky Do”
  “Bubble Wrap”
  “Do That Stuff” (Parliament)
  “Black Sara”
  “The Chicken” (Pee Wee Ellis)
  “Shoop (and the Power)”
• Captain Coconut at The Canal Room // June 27, 2007
  FEATURING:
  ★ “Funky See, Funky Do”
  “166 & 9th”
  “Black Sara”
  “Shoop (and the Power)”
• Captain Coconut at Wesleyan // April 21, 2007
  FEATURING:
  “Ampersand”
  “Black Sara”
  ★ “Let’s Go Get Crunk”
  “Do That Stuff” (Parliament)
  “Wait For It”
  ★ “Funky See, Funky Do”
  “Shoop (and the Power)”
  “J.B.”
• Captain Coconut at The Knitting Factory // March 24, 2007
  FEATURING:
  “Ampersand”
  ★ “Funky See, Funky Do”
  “Jubilant Crackhead Strut”
  “Wait For It”
  “The Gitis”
  “J.B.”
  ★ “Let’s Go Get Crunk”
  “Vapor” (Soulive)
  “Shoop (and the Power)”
• 
  Captain Coconut, Shoop!
  FEATURING:
  “Shoop (and the Power)”
  “Black Sara”
  “Wait For It”
  ★ “Let’s Go Get Crunk”
  “Jubilant Crackhead Strut”
  ★ “Funky See, Funky Do”
  “The Gitis”
  “J.B.”
• Captain Coconut at The Knitting Factory // April 15, 2006
  FEATURING:
  “Mustard County, MI”
  “Ampersand”
  “Black Sara”
  “2001”
  “Parade of One”
  “Fried Bologna Sandwich”
  “Taxman” (The Beatles)
  ★ “Funky See Funky Do”
  “It’s Your Thing” (Isley Brothers)
  “The Gitis”
  “Nyack” (Lettuce)
  
• Captain Coconut at Tribeca Rock Club // September 17, 2005
  FEATURING:
  “Butter Biscuit” (Oteil Burbridge)
  “The Gitis”
  “Dark Star”
  “Pardon The Interruption” (Ultra Fine Point Groove)
  “Improvised Intervention”
  “Impulse”
  “Jubilant Crackhead Serenade”
  “Mountain Jam” (Allman Brothers)
  “Ampersand”
  “Ideofunk” (John Scofield)
  ★ “Funk Shui”
  “So, You Think You Can Walk?”
  “Sprung Monkey” (Brian Seegar)
  “Chameleon” (Herbie Hancock)
• Captain Coconut at CBGB // May 26, 2005
  FEATURING:
  “The Chicken” (Pee Wee Ellis)
  “Ampersand”
  “Chameleon” (Herbie Hancock)
  ★ “Afi Komen”
  “You Enjoy Myself”
  “Mag-Poo”
  “Pardon the Interruption” (Ultra Fine Point Groove)