LIVE SWING night with The Cloud Drops featuring Jonathan Doyle

We're bringing back LIVE SWING music to Century Ballroom's Sunday night Swing Dance! We've got an all-star line up for you who are sure to keep your body swinging' and your feet shuffling all night long. Seattle legend Jonathan Doyle is bringing together a band of all-star musicians under the name "The Cloud Drops!" Featuring: Michael van Bebber--trumpet Jacob Zimmerman--alto saxophone & clarinet Jonathan Doyle--tenor & soprano saxophone & clarinet Jerome Smith--trombone Alex Guilbert--piano Josh Roberts--guitar Matt Weiner--bass D'vonne Lewis--drum set Drop in lesson 9:00-9:30pm Social Dance 9:30pm -12:00am Admission $25 All ages! MEET THE BAND: Saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger Jonathan Doyle lives in Port Townsend WA. Jonathan is committed to crafting original music as well studying the American musical traditions He strives to organize and be a part of bands whose music is rooted, yet distinct. And to play for listeners and dancers anywhere they'll have him! Jonathan has had a career that has allowed him to perform professionally on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, at Preservation Hall, on Austin City Limits TV show, at Jazz At Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night’s Swing, in the famous Spiegeltent, at Chichen Itza, and major festivals such as Chicago Jazz Fest, Chicago Blues Fest, New Orleans Jazz Fest, French Quarter Festival in New Orleans, and many more. Big tone and rock-solid rhythm have made Matt Weiner one of the busiest bass players in the Northwest. Inspired by the “prebop” bass players and their music, he’s slapping out a syncopated jazz feel on one tune, bowing a folksy melody on the next. Frequently performing upward of 200 shows per year, Matt can be spotted around Seattle and other places plucking, bowing and slapping his gut-strung bass with Jacob Zimmerman, Ray Skjelbred, Del Rey, Jonathan Doyle, Barton Carroll, Bric-a-Brac Trio, Squirrel Butter, Wayne Horvitz, Eli Rosenblatt, Casey MacGill and many others. He has also recorded and performed with The Todalo Shakers, The Hot Club of Cowtown, The Asylum Street Spankers, Butch Thompson, Becky Kilgore, Danny Barnes, Matt Munisteri, Jon-Erik Kellso, Rani Arbo and James Hill. Winner of the 2013, 2018 and 2021 “NW Instrumentalist of the Year” honors in the Seattle Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Awards, D’Vonne Lewis (drums) is the grandson of the ‘Godfather’ of rock and roll/soul, 1950s-1960s Northwest organ legend, Dave Lewis. Lewis graduated from Seattle’s Roosevelt High School in 2002 and was a member of the award-winning jazz band, directed by SRJO trombonist, Scott Brown. While in high school, D’Vonne received the Essentially Ellington Drum soloist award for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002. Lewis resides in Seattle, WA, and extensively tours and performs various gigs in styles ranging from jazz, big band, funk, hip-hop, rock, Brazilian and African. He has recorded and performed with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis; Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra; Maria Schneider; Digable Planets; Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam; Christian McBride; John Clayton; George Porter, Jr. of the Meters; George Cables; Diane “Deedles” Schuur; Bucky Pizzarelli; Marian McPartland and a number of other local and national artists. Lewis composes for his own band, ‘D’Vonne Lewis’ LIMITED EDITION’; his own trio under his name and D’Vonne Lewis 2.(duo) He is also the 2006 Earshot Golden Ear Award winner for ‘Emerging Artist of the Year’ and the 2014 Stranger Magazine ‘Genius’ award recipient and serves on the Seattle Jazz Fellowship Board. Seattle-based saxophonist and clarinetist Jacob Zimmerman plays creative, swinging jazz for listeners and dancers. On top of leading "Jacob Zimmerman & His Pals" he has performed with jazz groups including Rachael & Vilray, the Jonathan Stout Orchestra, and The Fat Babies. His playing is melodic and spontaneous in the spirit of his heroes: Bix Beiderbecke and Lester Young. Born in Austin, TX, Jerome Smith has been a professional musician for almost 20 years. Playing music has taken him all over the world including Los Angeles, CA for the Grammy’s; Orlando, FL for Disney World show bands, Beijing and Shanghai, China on orchestra tours, United Kingdom and South America on Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Lines; Teaching at the International School of Moscow, Russia, just to name a few places. Jerome has also worked with Arturo Sandoval, Carlos Santana, Bobby Caldwell, Robert Glasper, and others in his professional career. He delights in teaching as music enriches the soul, and there’s no better gift than to pass on to the next generation of musicians than the passion he shares for playing music. Michael Van Bebber is a versatile and in-demand trumpeter who has performed with The Lee Konitz Quintet, The John Clayton/Jeff Hamilton Big Band, Jon-Erik Kellso, The Woody Herman Band, Branford Marsalis, Johnny Mathis, The Four Tops, The Who, Anat Cohen, and many others. He is a member of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, the 5th Avenue Theatre Pit Orchestra and the Jay Thomas Quintet, among other ensembles. His transcription book "Charlie Parker 60 Melodies and Solos" is endorsed by Jiulliard professor and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra alto player Ted Nash and Jim Snidero. Van Bebber is an active performer in the Swing and Straight Ahead Jazz scene in Seattle. Josh Roberts is a jazz guitarist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Specializing in styles of jazz which emerged in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, his playing is rooted in the styles of early electric jazz guitarists like Charlie Christian and George Barnes, as well as masters of acoustic rhythm guitar, such as Freddie Green and Allan Reuss. He has performed across North America, in Europe and the Caribbean.