With jazz flute, you’re always flirting with the danger of sounding like Muzak. There are several strategies for avoiding that fate, one of which is to swing really, really hard; another is to adopt a kind of super-woody tone that communicates musical seriousness; another is to shade off into avant-gardism. Andrea Brachfeld leans on none of those crutches, although she does demonstrate admirable swing and tonal flexibility, and her compositions display an impressive balance of accessibility and complexity. Her tone is a bit “classical” for my own tastes (her tone probably comes of being an actual trained flutist rather than a dabbling saxophonist, as so many jazz flute players are), but she’s a very skillful and idiomatic player and her band is exceptional.
– Rick Anderson, October 2, 2012, CDHotlist.Com