Roy Patterson Jazz Guitar Trio | April 5

NT$550 admission, including one selected drink. Opening a bottle from the selected red or white wine list can cover admission for two.
Show starts at 9:00 p.m.; doors open at 8:00 p.m.
Live Music Charge w/1 selected drink. Live Music Charge for 2 ppl cover one bottle wine.

＊Cash only＊

[ Roy Patterson | Guitar ]

Canadian guitarist Roy Patterson is known for his clear melodic lines and rich tone, and has been praised by The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. He released several albums between 1989 and 2014 and received the Montreal Jazz Festival’s Prix de Jazz in 1997. He has performed across Europe, the United States and Canada, taught in the University of Toronto’s jazz program and now teaches at York University. A longtime contributor to Just Jazz Guitar, he is profiled in Scott Yanow’s The Great Jazz Guitarists: The Ultimate Guide. Currently based in Taiwan, he is performing with local musicians while completing his book Harmony for Jazz Guitar.

“Every note that he plays seems to have a purpose and a place, and both purpose and place usually have something to do with melody.” —The Globe and Mail

“Patterson…a perfectionist with a big, round and dominating sound that turns every tune into a stimulating experience.” —The Toronto Star

The work of Canadian guitarist Roy Patterson has been documented on several CDs released between 1989 and 2014, receiving national and international recognition. His quartet won the coveted Prix de Jazz at the 1997 Montreal Jazz Festival, and his playing has been compared with some of the most recognized guitarists in recent decades. His music has taken him to Europe, the USA, and across Canada. As an educator Roy taught in the jazz programme at the University of Toronto for over a decade and since 2003 has taught at Toronto’s York University. For over twenty years he was a regular contributor to the US publication, “Just Jazz Guitar” and is profiled in, “The Great Jazz Guitarists: The Ultimate Guide” by Scott Yanow. (Backbeat Books, 2013) Currently on a research leave from York University, Roy will be in Taiwan for an extended period, performing with Taiwanese jazz musicians and completing a book called, Harmony for Jazz Guitar.

[ Yu Jia Liu | Bass ]

Yu Jia Liu studied Chinese music at National Tainan University of the Arts and jazz at National Dong Hwa University, where she focused on double bass.

Recognized in Taiwan’s jazz community for her excellent technique and distinctive musical voice, she has received the National Theater & Concert Hall’s Best Double Bassist award and taught at its 2015 Jazz Camp. She won first place in the Taipei jazz scene’s emerging-artist competition in 2016. Since 2018, she has co-organized an original-music touring project with German jazz pianist Julian Moreen, serving as its coordinator in Taiwan and Asia and performing in a quartet. The group has recorded albums and toured Germany, Singapore, Malaysia and elsewhere. She has continued to expand her work as a performer and composer, appearing at the Taichung Jazz Festival for several consecutive years since 2019. In 2024 and 2025, she performed in multiple NTT+ Opera Salon shows at the Taichung National Theater. In recent years, she has frequently collaborated with the National Theater & Concert Hall, including the Summer Jazz outdoor parties and the 2022 production Jazz in da House. She performed in the 2024 Summer Jazz production Taiwanese Jazz Awakening, which was later invited to Weiwuying Jazz Week. Her recordings include Chiu Li-Ting’s Interwoven Parallels (2021, Golden Indie Music Awards nominee), A Letter to Happiness (2023), Michael Wang’s My Influence and Takeshi Sakamoto’s Light and Time (2024). She is also active in pop music, recording and performing with Waa Wei, Hung Pei-yu, Li Chien-na and Ko Min-hsuan.

[ WeiChung Lin | Drums ]

From 2006 to 2008, while studying at Berklee College of Music, WeiChung Lin majored in drum set and also explored percussion traditions from around the world. After returning to Taiwan, he began performing with several jazz groups in early 2008 and became active in the local jazz scene. His collaborators include Masuda Masaharu (MAS), Toshi Fujii, Shawna Yang, Peng Yu-wen, Martijn Vanbuel, Hsu Yu-ying, Minyen Hsieh, Tseng Tseng-yi, Yeh Ho-pu and visiting musicians Alex Terrier, Tyler Blanton, Alex Pryrodny, Saori Yano, Doug Lawrence and Lafayette Harris Jr. Beyond jazz, he has performed in concerts with Gary Chaw, Hu En-rui, Joanna Wang and Yoga Lin, as well as many shows with jazz singer Shih Yin-yin. Since 2013, he has been an official endorser for Canopus drums and Regal Tip drumsticks. In 2009, he took part in the live recording of the score for the film Au Revoir Taipei. In 2011, two of his main groups released their debut albums: experimental-jazz group Flâneur Daguerre marked the end of its first two years with the collection Interlocking Clusters of Stars, while Taiwan’s first group dedicated to traditional Brazilian choro, Choro de Taiwan, began its journey with the album Departure. In 2014, he joined Hsiao Yu-wen’s first solo project, Daring Boldly, with the band Silk Bamboo Space, interpreting her fusion of Hakka culture and jazz through an unusual lineup of piano, saxophone, sanxian and drums. In 2015, his performance on “Song of Sickness,” from Chen Ying-da’s album R.E.M. Moods, won Best Jazz Single at that year’s Golden Indie Music Awards.

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