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September 21, 2026 For those still unaware, Andrea Brachfeld has built a wide-ranging career as a flutist, composer, arranger, educator, and bandleader whose work spans jazz, Latin jazz, Brazilian music, salsa, charanga, funk, and other improvisational traditions. A graduate of New York City’s High School of Music & Art and the Manhattan School of Music, […]
September 14, 2026 Composer, improviser and flautist Andrea Brachfeld has established a body of work that moves between Latin and straight-ahead jazz settings seamlessly. Her 2026 project A Holiday Celebration of Light is a compilation of holiday standards, spiritual hymns, and original works, some of which are written by Brachfeld. Accompanied by pianist, arranger, and co-producer Bill […]
September 14, 2026 Andrea Brachfeld stuffs the Christmas stocking with her mix of flutes as she ecumenically celebrates a variety of the end of year holidays with her team of Bill O’Connell/p, Blake Meister/b, Eric Kennedy/dr and Wycliffe Gordon/tb. Gordon here is a major bonus, adding a rich foil of sound on his rich trombone […]
Hey everyone! I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted here. I usually post on facebook so if you’re not my friend and you want to be ( : please friend me! I moved to Baltimore on September 16, 2021 at the request of my daughter to babysit my newborn grandson and it has […]
Then, it is the twirling tenderness of the flute, on a more exotic rhythm, which takes us into sunny and wild regions, full of attractive mystery, like the flautist in the Douanier-Rousseau painting…
Panamanian-American bassist Santi Debriano took his Flash of the Spirit band, with Andrea Brachfeld (flute), Bob Franceschini (tenor sax), Bill O’Connell (piano) and Tommy Campbell (drums), to the Django for a one-night-only show (Aug. 1) of rousing Latin jazz.
There’s an incredibly pliant simpatico driving this music ever higher and deeper. ~ Tom McCarter, KZSU 90.1fm Stanford, May, 2018
“Evolution”, by flutist Andrea Brachfeld & Insight, is not just an album; it’s an eloquent, impassioned plea for humanity. Brachfeld, with a first-call rhythm section of pianist Bill O’Connor, bassist Harvie S and drummer Jason Tiema, sets out a musically and culturally divers welcome table that is instructive as well as entertaining.
“Evolution” is not just an album; it’s an eloquent, impassioned plea for humanity. Brachfeld has serious jazz chops. “Child of the Earth”, a spoken word affirmation, might be the album’s defining moment. Brachfeld’s delivery reflects the words’ urgency, her gradually rising voice driving the rhythm section relentlessly as the music builds and intensifies beneath her elemental message […]