The Bands

Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five
Featuring Hilary Alexander

Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five, featuring Hilary Alexander is a septet dedicated to preserving the classic and often overlooked small group swing from the late 1930’s and early 1940’s. Founded by two dedicated swing dancers and v intage lifestyle enthusiasts, and using only the best of LA’s jazz community, the Campus Five was a way to expose many dancers and listeners alike to some of the more interesting and under appreciated tunes from the swing era, while still being one of the most danceable bands playing swing today. Picking tunes from the books of notable small groups as the Benny Goodman Sextet, Count Basie’s Kansas City Six/Seven, Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five, as well as Cootie Williams, Illinois Jacquet, Lester Young, Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington, and Coleman Hawkins, and featuring vocal numbers from Ella Mae Morse, Anita O’Day, Peggy Lee and the young Ella Fitzgerald.

Website: www.campusfive.com

Stompy Jones

Stompy Jones is a San Francisco based sextet, renowned for their jumpin' rhythm, wailing improvisations, hip charm, retro style, and explosive stage show. Whether appearing at a posh supper club, concert hall, festival or cozy tavern, these journeymen of jump deliver the romping, joyous, overwhelming style of jazz that came to be known as Rock and Roll!

Website: www.stompyjones.com

Dawn Lambeth and the Usonia Jazz Band

The Usonia Jazz Band specializes in jazz and swing from the 20's, 30's and 40's. Dawn's cool voice is complimented by the wonderful musicians in the band, who are recognized as some of the best in the genre. Recently Dawn and Marc Caparone have been invited to play, and were well received, at the Los Angeles Lindy Binge with the Reynolds Brothers (favorites of the folks at the Binge).

Website: www.usoniajazz.com / www.dawnlambeth.com

The Sugar Daddy Swing Kings

The Sugar Daddy Swing Kings are the house band at Mothers Tavern, an icon of San Luis Obispo. The Leader, Paul Brown, also happens to be the owner of Mothers, and a member of the SLO City Council. Paul brings his fantastic energy to his band, and they are sure to always liven things up with their Jump Blues edge on swing music.

Website: www.motherstavern.com

The DJs

Tonya Morris

Tonya Morris has always had a love for early jazz, swing & blues and has been djing this genre of music for eight years. After becoming an accomplished pianist and playing professionally throughout high school and college (University of Washington), she fell in love with Lindy Hop, the original jazz based partner dance that was born in Harlem during the late 1920's and 1930's. Soon thereafter she began collecting music from the jazz/swing era and started djing in Vancouver B.C. and Seattle, WA. Tonya quickly became recognized as one of the favorite djs in the Pacific Northwest as a house dj for the Century Ballroom and has been invited to dj at events all over the world. Now residing in Los Angeles, Tonya is the house dj for Sugarfoot Stomp every Monday night and has dj'd many national events including the LA Binge, the Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown, Camp Jitterbug, the OC Exchange, the Rhythmic Arts Festival, the Hawaii Lindy Exchange, the Seattle Lindy Exchange and Lindy Summit. Tonya was most recently voted "DJ of the People" at the Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown in Minneapolis, MN.

Heather Eide

Jonathan Stout

Jonathan Stout has been playing guitar for 10 years, specializing in early acoustic and electric jazz guitar for the last three. He has studied guitar at the University of Southern California Studio/Jazz Guitar Program under Richard Smith, Frank Potenza, Pat Kelley and Steve Trovato. Currently a history major, Jonathan has worked on researching the history of Los Angeles jitterbugs during the 1930's and 1940's. He has been devoted to preserving traditional Los Angeles-style Lindy Hop, and Bal-Swing since learning to dance in 1997. Along with preserving traditional swing dancing, Jonathan has attempted to preserve early jazz guitar, especially Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Allan Reuss, and others. Jonathan started the Campus Five after having great experiences sitting in with Jive Train, and playing with Josh Callazo and his Feetwarmers. Motivated by the great playing in both bands, but wanting to also play some of his favorite small group jems, his Campus Five was born. As both a premiere musician and excellent dancer, Jonathan brings an amazing array of expertise to his musical interpretation and historical knowledge, which contributes to his national acclaim as a DJ.

Giselle Anguizola

Residing in Orange County, California, Giselle has studied the history of jazz music from its origins in New Orleans to its present day form. More specifically, she enjoys and concentrates on the periods that led to the creation of Lindy Hop. While she strongly promotes the classics from the 1930's-1940's, Giselle also supports later forms of jazz and blues that inspire the dance today.

Jesse Gearhart

Jesse is the local DJ at San Luis Obispo's most popular Swing Venue: The Madonna Inn. He has been DJing for dancers for 5 years providing classic Big Band, Traditional Jazz and modern Jazz and Swing. Also a dancer, and local teacher, Jesse has been dancing for 7 years. Jesse also hosts a local radio program called the Swingcat's Ball, on public radio KCBX FM 90.1. His love for the music and dance combine to make him an exciting DJ that dancers will appreciate.