“Min Xiao-Fen’s ‘Mao, Monk and Me,’ a moving solo album — just seven tunes, not 70 — with outside-the-lines renditions of two Monk classics, ‘Ask Me Now’ and ‘Misterioso.’ Playing the pipa, a Chinese lute, she brought her own history to the pieces while seeming to savor crucial elements of Monk’s genius: his thorough, ringing engagement with his instrument’s strings; his percussiveness; his capering between zips and blasts and meaningful silence.” — Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

“[‘Annica’] from her new album White Lotus, out June 25, reveals ancient dimensions of harmony and order. What initially may have come off as strange and different becomes incontrovertibly human—something with a center of gravity in the heart or the guts.” — Morgan Enos, Grammy.com