The Port Ludlow Performing Arts brings the Los Angeles-based Black Market Trust to the Bay Club on Thursday, March 7, for a 7 p.m. concert.

Black Market Trust refers to itself as an “American traditional pop/vocal jazz group,” combining the sounds of American crooners and vocal groups with what its members see as “the fire and energy” of Romani jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.

Black Market Trust started as an instrumental band, cutting its first studio album in 2012, before changes in its lineup heralded the inclusion of vocals by 2017.

The band’s current lineup features five globe-trotting musicians who have recorded and performed on some of the world’s biggest stages alongside a number of renowned musical artists, while seeking to capitalize on their experiences by delivering what they regard as “high-energy, crowd-pleasing” performances.

The band’s live shows feature material from “The Great American Songbook,” which the band members tout as “still infused with Django’s romantic and virtuosic flavor,” to which they aim to add “some intricate vocal harmonies, and a dash of Rat Pack-style comedy.”

Black Market Trust sets out to meld the distinctly different vibes of a campfire with a “slick metropolitan nightclub” into “a cohesive, stylish sound.”

Through the band’s debut album, lead guitarist Jeffrey Scott Radaich gained notice for his songwriting, and from 2009 to 2015, Radaich and bassist Brian Netzley were members of the groundbreaking Gonzalo Bergara Quartet, which headlined the Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-sur-Seine, France.

After spending six years as supporting cast members with Bergara, Netzley and Radaich decided to focus on this project, staying true to their love of Django, but combining it with an American flavor.

The first Black Market Trust album’s core trio of Radaich, Netzley and rhythm guitarist Chris Irwin was rounded out by L.A.-based session and touring drummer Brandon Laws and Nick Coventry, a Tucson, Arizona, violinist and Eastern European folk music expert, before Irwin retired from the group in 2017, and was replaced by fellow rhythm guitarist and vocalist Kale "Kully" Stiles.

Band members have cited their love of The Mills Brothers, The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, but as Black Market Trust, they seek to create an “organic sound” that’s “daring, fresh and exciting ... combining old-world romance with new-world form.”

A limited number of tickets are available at portludlowperformingarts.com online for $35 each.