Drummer Adriel Vincent-Brown is putting his polyrhythmic stamp on infectious Latin-African sound.
An underground oasis of speakeasy-like splendor in the midst of San Francisco’s gritty Tenderloin, Black Cat has become the region’s primary portal into the polyrhythmic future of jazz.
“When other musicians started asking me what calypso records they should check out I realized this is what set me apart,” he said. “Cats from New Orleans, no matter what they play, they put those grooves in the music. But ultimately, a lot of music comes from Africa and those influences are so strong and powerful they make their way into whatever is going on.”
“What’s happened now is that the influences are more direct. You have Etienne, and Godwin Louis, whose family is from Haiti, and trumpeter Giveton Gelin from the Bahamas,” who was part of The Force at Vincent-Brown’s first Black Cat residency. If Vincent-Brown’s pan-Caribbean sound is a harbinger of jazz to come, the trio he brings to San Francisco offers another glimpse at the music’s rising tide. At 21, New York-reared pianist Esteban Castro has already racked up a series of daunting firsts. After becoming the youngest ever winner of the Montreux Jazz Piano Solo Competition in 2016 he pulled off a similar feat the following year at 14, when he was the youngest person to ever win the Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition.
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