Among the many bars and music restaurants in Shenzhen, jazz performances are not common. And this small restaurant hidden in the OCT Creative Park has the world's high-end jazz performances, filled with the most active music atmosphere. The black stamps have attracted top jazz musicians and singers, including Asia's top jazz guitarist Tommy Ho, Italian jazz genius Andrea Marcelli and American jazz ambassador Michael Tracy. At the end of February 2018, the Grammy-nominated Swedish musician Magnus Lindgren also appeared on the black stamp. The food on the black stamps is on the top of the class in Shenzhen's music restaurants, and the live music is so eye-catching that people often forget about its cuisine.
The female proprietor of Black Stamps studied jazz, and her husband was from England, and the two played in this small restaurant for six years in order to spread jazz music. There are often guests who come to see the jazz style, and would rather brave the sweltering heat of the summer night and sit in the open air all night. Senior musicians are not often encountered, but the people who come to the black stamps are definitely outstanding people in the circle, Jacky Cheung's bassist, trumpeter, Mok Wenwei, Wang Ruolin's royal band has also appeared, and the boss who is a professional jazz singer often improvises Norah John, Laura Fygi and other classic works on the spot, and the standard is very high. There are performances from 20:30-23:00 every night from Monday to Friday, and there are additional performances from 15:30-18:00 on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. There are often jazz quartets, flamenco trios, etc., and the content of the weekly performances and the names of the performers can be found on the official WeChat account.
The meals on the black stamps are mainly wines, English refreshments and snacks, each of which involves some classic style, and is not complicated or fancy. Although the word "coffee" is used in the store, there are very few types of coffee, and only the most common espresso, Americano, cappuccino, mocha and latte are currently available, which are fragrant and better than Starbucks and the like. If you want to drink light drinks, you can choose hot bubble tea and fresh fruit juice, and the cups are stylish, and the girls love them. In winter, it is especially recommended to try mulled wine with black stamps, which is a must-drink for Christmas in Germany and Austria, and is also boiled and drunk by British people in winter. It is a cheap red wine, boiled with sugar, cinnamon, oranges, cloves, etc., the color is clear, and the warm drink is very healing, and it is perfect for jazz music.
The alcohol is mainly cocktails, except for the gin and tonic, the whole is sweeter, and the taste is passable. The price of bartending is generally more expensive, and a bottle of Baileys sells for 50 yuan.
In terms of food, young people seem to have a tacit understanding of cheese food, and cheesecakes and cheese pizzas are served at a high rate. Since the owner is from Sichuan, the menu in 2015 added nearly ten kinds of Sichuan-Chongqing noodles and a few cold dishes, and the menu became a little cute. Its rich aroma is spicy, and it seems to be able to pull you back from the jazz dream full of Western flavor at any time.
The decoration of the black stamps is not deliberately designed to be ornamental, the small stage is very simple, and the wonderful moments and signed photos of the world's top jazz musicians are hung on the walls, and anyone who comes into contact with jazz can recognize the faces of the world's jazz actresses Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan at a glance. Intriguingly, there are also a lot of empty picture frames on the walls, as if to tell guests that the black stamps are waiting for more jazz geniuses. The space is small, and most of it is open-air. The store is long and narrow, the stage is in the innermost position, and there is no performance in the open air, but the literary atmosphere in the creative park is strong, and it is quite romantic to sit in the open air and listen to music.
Black stamps do not value service, there are few staff, slow serving, and a cold attitude.
Not far from the black stamps, there is a restaurant called the other side of the bay, which is no different from the most common music restaurant in the shopping mall, the dishes are mainly simple meals and barbecues of thirty or forty yuan, more like a fast food restaurant after packaging, turning into a petty bourgeois restaurant, plus the music resources are unstable, it is not worth recommending.
