The Candy Shop Boys are a burlesque, cabaret, vaudevillian act built around the "viper jazz" songs of the 1920s and '30s. Sex, drugs, and degeneracy in the censor-dodging coded language of the time. King Oliver. Fats Waller. Cab Calloway. Duke Ellington. Plus clever and original arrangements of rock classics, because why not. The result is a small orchestra that sounds like nothing else: jazz and mischief fused at the source.

The band's debut album, "Sugarfoot Stomp," launched the "Hot, High and Low" national tour. They performed across the US — Hotel Congress in Tucson, clubs in New York, Brooklyn, and beyond. The connection to John Wick happened because of exactly who this band is: one of the most musical, most cinematic acts in New York, capable of filling any room with something that feels like another era but sounds entirely alive.

Evil Man Blues, their contribution to the 2014 John Wick opening sequence, is the most-heard saxophone Matt Parker has played. It's not a dramatic film credit — it's two minutes of "Best Little Big Band in The Biz" doing exactly what they do, caught on camera at just the right moment.