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Nika Rejto (2012)
	Known in the jazz world only as a flutist, Nika Rejto is much more: she sings, and is a visual artist who has made most of her living over the past three decades in music and education. Nika was born in Southern California into a very musical family: her father was Hungarian-born cellist Gábor Rejtõ, her mother still teaches music privately, and her brother, Peter, is, like their father, a cellist, and was formerly on the faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory. She attended USC, and the Berklee College of Music. In 1998, Jack Bowers at "Jazz Now" wrote of Nika "There are only a handful of jazz flutists with whom to compare her … Frank Wess, Herbie Mann, James Moody", and she's played with Wess and their fellow flutists Hubert Laws and Jeremy Steig, as well as a host of jazz giants from Benny Carter to Horace Silver. Bowers paid her a fine compliment indeed, but there have been a lot of those over the years, referring to her great tone, strong melodic touch, and soul. Nika's latest recording, "Little Wizdoms", is a pop-jazz collection of her own writing over the past decade.

Nika Rejto (2012)

Known in the jazz world only as a flutist, Nika Rejto is much more: she sings, and is a visual artist who has made most of her living over the past three decades in music and education.

Nika was born in Southern California into a very musical family: her father was Hungarian-born cellist Gábor Rejtõ, her mother still teaches music privately, and her brother, Peter, is, like their father, a cellist, and was formerly on the faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory. She attended USC, and the Berklee College of Music.

In 1998, Jack Bowers at "Jazz Now" wrote of Nika "There are only a handful of jazz flutists with whom to compare her … Frank Wess, Herbie Mann, James Moody", and she's played with Wess and their fellow flutists Hubert Laws and Jeremy Steig, as well as a host of jazz giants from Benny Carter to Horace Silver. Bowers paid her a fine compliment indeed, but there have been a lot of those over the years, referring to her great tone, strong melodic touch, and soul.

Nika's latest recording, "Little Wizdoms", is a pop-jazz collection of her own writing over the past decade.

Pick	Artist	Album	Song	Label
# 1	Nika Rejto	Little Wizdoms	Hobo	Unika Records
# 2	Nika and Alice Rejto	(not commercially available)	Chopin Nocturne in C# minor, Op. Posthumous
# 3	Al Di Meiola	Flesh on Flesh	Flesh on Flesh	Universal
# 4	Vicki Burns	Live at Anna's Jazz Island	All or Nothing at All	Reapandsow Music
# 5	Dori Caymmi	Poesia Musicada	Velho Do Mar	Music Taste
# 6	Nestor Torres	Dance of the Phoenix	Milonga	Verve
# 7	Marco Granados	Amanacer	Apanhei-Te, Cavaquinho!	Hermes
# 8	Paul Broadnax	Here's to Joe	Everybody Wants to Be Loved by Someone	Brownstone
# 9	Nika Rejto	Little Wizdoms	I Felt Your Touch Today	Unkia Records
# 10	Michel Petrucciani	Promenade with Duke	C-Jam Blues	Blue Note
# 11	James Leary	Together	Remember to Smile	Lifeforce Jazz

Book	Joseph McElroy, "Women and Men"

Luxury Item	"My bed and pillows"

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