[1] This album focuses on Brazilian music, "including the songs of Chico Buarque, Chico Pinheiro, and Francis Hime plus a lone number ('Memories in Black and White') from Antonio Carlos Jobim".

[2] Scott Yanow concluded that "San Francisco is a program of subtle music that is quietly infectious.

[3] Downbeat Magazine's Fred Bouchard wrote in their May 2008 issue: "Brazilian chic has nudged its way for two generations into pop and jazz, but few insinuate as distinctively candid and original an interpretation as does vocalist Fleurine on this samba set.

The Dutch born, Portugal-reared polyglot sounds as fresh and guileless as she did on her slightly more mainstream 1995 debut.

Lilting tunes fly feather-light in fittingly bare-bones combos, with fleet cameos by husband Brad Mehldau.