THE CANDY
SHOP BOYS
"The Best Little Big Band in the Biz."
As heard in John Wick (2014) · Sugarfoot Stomp · LionsgateThe 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 — 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 moment in John Wick (2014), is the most-heard saxophone Matt Parker has played. It's not a dramatic film credit — it's the Candy Shop Boys doing exactly what they do, caught on camera at just the right moment.
The Band
- Matt ParkerTenor Saxophone
- Jesse ElderPiano
- Scott TixierViolin · DownBeat Critics Poll
- Arthur VintDrums
- Kenball ZwerinBass
- Julio MonterreyDJ
- Melody SweetsOriginal Vocalist
- Sophia UristaVocals
- Sugarfoot Stomp (2013)Debut Album
- Evil Man Blues (2014)John Wick · Lionsgate
Evil Man Blues
The Candy Shop Boys in the scene that made a generation of action fans stop and ask: "what IS that music?" This is what it is.
James Bond Theme
A taste of what's coming. This track is on the upcoming remix and remaster of Sugarfoot Stomp — the Candy Shop Boys doing exactly what they do best, in a room that could only be theirs.
Sugarfoot Stomp
Remixed & Remastered
The debut album. No payment required. Just your email now gets you early access.