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Cats and Jammers is a name shared by two distinct, genre-spanning groups rooted in different scenes: a San Francisco Bay Area swing/jazz trio active from 1986 to 2002 and later associated with Leftover Dreams, and a Chicago pop/jangly-rock band from the late 1990s into the 2000s. The Bay Area trio—composed of Piper Heisig, Sylvia Herold, and Tony Marcus—made a lasting impact on the local jazz scene with a string of releases on Tuxedo Records. Their work blends tight instrumental swing with intimate vocal arrangements, earning a dedicated following in Northern California and beyond. In Chicago, Cats and Jammers emerged as a jangly-pop outfit with releases like Hurray for Everything (1999, Beluga) and After School Special (2000, Beluga).