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Andrea Brachfeld is pictured smiling on her CD cover, with her head thrown back, the ocean waves and a tempered blue sky are the backdrop and she’s holding her flute delicately in her left hand. The first track of this album of Brazilian music sounds as happy and relaxed as this picturesque CD cover. It’s […]
There are a number of instruments that do not quite feel comfortable in jazz or is it jazz which is not comfortable with it? One of them is the flute. So even when an interpreter of the music who plays this instrument publishes an album of jazz, Brazilian music or a mixture of both, it […]
For Brazilian Whispers, veteran flutist Andrea Brachfeld dives deep into the Jobim book, turning out fresh interpretations of familiar gems. Best known for her affiliations with Slide Hampton, Wallace Roney, and Dave Valentin, Brachfeld is joined by her regular working band—longtime collaborator Bill O’Connell on piano and Rhodes, double bassist Harvie S, and drummer Jason […]
Among the first 2020 CD releases on Origin, Brazilian Whispers is the latest solo album from NYC based flutist / composer Andrea Brachfeld. A number of artists support Ms. Brachfeld on the 11-track album, including established names like Roni Ben-Hur (guitars), Harvie S (bass), Lincoln Goines (electric bass), as well as several drummers and percussionists […]
Flautist Andrea Brachfeld’s CV reads like a who’s who of Latin jazz. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, and a recipient of some of the genre’s most prestigious accolades (including the 2006 Chico O’Farrill Lifetime Achievement Award), she has recorded and/or performed with such luminaries as Paquito D’Rivera, Tito Puente, Slide Hampton and […]
A member of the sorority of women that know how to pour the flute juice with a free hand that ultimately wind up letting Brazil shine on them, Brachfeld goes right to the Jobim source while avoiding most of the Jobim clichés to really get inside the music she loves. Backed up by a crew […]
Following a year of reflection, Andrea Brachfeld composed and recorded a selection of songs that she submitted for a New Jazz Grant from Chamber Music America. The winning results can be heard on If Not Now, When? (Jazzheads) her ninth release as a leader. Nine of the 10 songs are collaborations melding Brachfeld’s sinewy melodies […]
To play alongside latin Masters, Dave Valentin, and Ray Barretto, a musician must be really good and have an extense knowledge of the Latin music language. Flutist Andrea Brachfeld is one of those rare jazz musicians who feels equally comfortable and is just as good playing either traditional jazz or Latin jazz. If not now, […]
Loving jazz flute means not getting many opportunities to write about it. Most of the time it’s a saxophonist’s second (or third) instrument, broken out in a big band to play the Frank Wess part in an old Basie chart and then put away for a few weeks. It’s a shame, because the flute and […]
Andrea Brachfeld: If Not Now, When? (Jazzheads): If the adage, “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts” were ever true — and it is — it’s true about flutist Andrea Brachfeld’s latest release. Through nine of her original compositions Brachfeld, pianist Bill O’Connell, bassist Harvie S, and drummer Jason Tiemann create group […]