Results for "DVonne Lewis"

Black Thunder

By Brittany Davis

Label: Loosegroove
Released: 2025
Track listing: Ancestors; All You Get; Ancestors II; Amid the Blackout of the Night; Ancestors III; Black Thunder; Ancestors IV; Change Me; Ancestors V; Girl (Don’t You Know); Girl (Now We’re the Same); Ancestors VI; Mirrors; Ancestors VII; Sarah’s Song; Sun and Moon; Ancestors VIII

Amid The Blackout Of The Night

April 19, 2025

Album: Black Thunder
By Brittany Davis
Label: Loosegroove
Released: 2025
Duration: 09:40

D'Vonne Lewis

D’Vonne Lewis, 32, is a self-taught musician/drummer/poet with a background in gospel, funk, and rhythm and blues. Lewis is the grandson of the late-great ‘Godfather of rock and roll/soul’, the Pacific Northwest’s Hall of Famer, Hammond B-3 organ legend, Dave Lewis. Because of Dave Lewis, Seattle’s 1950’s entertainment scene started on the path to desegregation. D’Vonne graduated from Seattle’s Roosevelt High School in 2002 under the direction of Scott Brown, where he received numerous high school jazz band awards, including the Jazz at Lincoln Center Outstanding Drum Soloist winner at the Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival for the years of 2000, 2001, and 2002. While still in high school, D’Vonne was first-call drummer to local and world-renowned artists, including Hadley Caliman; Buddy Catlett; Julian Priester; Floyd Standifer; Jay Thomas; Larry Fuller and Marc Seales, to name a few. Lewis has also performed with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra; pianist Marian McPartland; guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli; clarinetist Eddie Daniels; and out-sax titan Charles Gayle.