Andrea Brachfeld

Andrea Brachfeld is an American jazz flautist.

Biography
Brachfeld is a graduate of The High School of Music & Art and Manhattan School of Music. Her career started in the 1970s and she has recorded with Africando, Noel Pointer, and Timbalaye. Her breakthrough was in the Latin band Charanga ‘76, where she became the first female flute player to play salsa music in the United States.

Brachfeld has studied with Hubert Laws, Jimmy Heath, and Mike Longo. She has received the Latin New York Music Award twice during her career. She has performed with Dave Valentin, Nestor Torres, and Ray Barretto, and once opened for Chick Corea,and Paco de Lucia in a concert in Venezuela.

She has played as a soloist with the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra. They performed compositions by Brachfeld herself, as well as those by Dizzy Gillespie's musical director Mike Longo.

Andrea is the cousin of former New York Yankee Michael Brachfeld.

Discography

 * Remembered Dreams (Spirit Nectar Records, 2001)
 * Back With Sweet Passion (Latin Cool Records, 2003)
 * Beyond Standards with Chembo Corniel (Consolidated Artists Productions, 2006)
 * Into the World: A Musical Offering (2008)

Awards

 * 1974: Louis Armstrong Award for outstanding Jazz student, Jazz Interactions
 * 2006: Chico O’Farrill Lifetime Achievement Award, Latin Jazz USA