Pawn Ticket Trio is a jazz band based in Denver, Colorado. The group is self-categorized as playing "hack jazz", a style fused with rock structures and jazz stylings set to humorous lyrics and attention to solos. The group formed in late 2007 as an effort to bring the songs of guitarist John Lambert to a wider audience, and to serve as an experiment for a group of people who had always liked jazz in their own ways, but had never had a chance to play it.