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You can see this group at Chocolate & Love
once a month. The leader, on guitar and vocals,
is Taiwan's own Stevie Huang. An Aboriginel (Paiwan)
from Pingtung, he was influenced early in life
by the music of Texas rocker Stevie Ray Vaughn
and started playing the guitar and singing the
Blues.
Last year, Stevie met two Japanese musicians-Dafu
(an awesome drummer) and Hafu (the bassist)- at
a jam session at Living Room and they formed the
Black Sheep in October. Although the band has
played together for only six months, they have
already taken the island-wide amateur music scene
by storm, continuing to play the Living Room,
the Wall, and other Taipei venues and taking the
stage at Taiwan's first ever Blues Festival in
Taichung in March.
When Dafu says he plays Texas-style Blues and
original songs, this is an understatement because
these guys rock the house with some rolling guitar
licks, tight drums and heart thumping rock and
Blues that would make their idol proud.
That should be enough for one man, but Dafu is
a musician's musician, having graduated with honors
from the Musician's Institute in Los Angeles where,
remarkably, he learned to play the drums at age
29.
Every Tuesday night (from 8:30 p.m.) at Living
Room, he grooves with the Onyx Jazz Quartet. The
musicians are Jimmy Lee (sax), Pako Huang (guitar),
Kinya Ikeda (bass) and Dafu Daisuke (drums). Jimmy
and Pako both have, respectively, a PhD and a
Masters degree in Music from universities in the
USA. Kinya, a business school graduate, started
playing bass at the age of 17. Onyx plays standard
and other famous jazz pieces as well as original
jazz songs. Like Stevie Ray and the Black Sheep,
Onyx is a band that will not disappoint you, even
if you're a die-hard Country and Western fan who
thinks jazz is for good old boy wannabes like
Lyle Lovett. Both acts are well worth the price
of admission. So what are you waiting for? Get
out and rock with Dafu.
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