Antonio Carlos ‘Tom’ Jobim is the gift that keeps on giving – and where the flautist Brachfeld is concerned, his generosity knows no bounds. This is the long-established New Yorker’s first foray into works by the father of bossa nova, and it’s as seamless as one might expect from a woman whose four-decade career includes eight albums under her own name and sessions for a veritable who’s who of Latin jazzers from D’Rivera to Puente. Half the tracks, more or less (there’s 11, eight of them Jobim’s), find Brachfeld flanked by her regular band members, longtime collaborator Bill O’Connell on piano and Fender Rhodes, inimitable double bassist Harvie S and NYC-based drummer Jason Tiemann, taking muscular solos where appropriate on the suave, rhythmic likes of acoustic-electric opener ‘Double Rainbow’. Interpretations are deft: Jobim’s ‘Waters of March’ (‘Aguas de Marco’) is given unrepentant swing and blessed with several fiery face-offs. The chilled, alto-flute-led Livingston/Evans standard ‘Never Let Me Go’, a tribute to the late Roy Hargrove, is made airborne by lilting piano, while Brachfeld’s own ‘Triste e Solitaria’ goes out on a harmonic limb, with lovely results. Electric bassist Lincoln Goines, top-rated Brazilian drummer T.Portinho and conga maestro Chembo Corniel are here too. As of course, is ‘The Girl From Ipanema’, imaginatively re-styled.