Black Market Trust

Friday, March 11, 2022 ~ 7:30 PM

    The Black Market Trust is an American pop/vocal jazz band that combines the sounds of the great American crooners and vocal groups with the romantic Eastern European gypsy fire of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. These five world-class musicians have traveled the globe recording and performing with music’s most renowned artists. Their all-instrumental debut studio album, The Black Market Trust, is widely regarded as a milestone in the gypsy jazz world with lead guitarist, Jeffrey Scott Radaich, gaining notoriety for his technical prowess and musicality. They established themselves as leaders and innovators by combining pop “Brill Building” sensibilities with the traditional sound of Django Reinhardt’s Hot Club of France Quintet. Their music has been featured in ABC TV’s comedy series, Happy Endings, and the animated video featuring their song, Referential Integrity, has garnered over one-million YouTube views. Bassist Brian Netzley and Radaich, formerly with the Gonzalo Bergara Quartet, stayed true to their love of Django, combining it with a new sound and sensibility of the great pop/rock bands they grew up listening to and recruiting LA-based session/touring drummer Brandon Laws and Tucson, AZ’s violin hero/Eastern European folk music expert Nick Coventry. The lineup includes wunderkind Kale Stiles on rhythm guitar, clarinet and saxophone, and even lap steel. Vocals merge their love of everything from The Mills Brothers to The Beach Boys, from Sinatra to Lennon/McCartney.