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Nika Rejto
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Nika Rejto, acclaimed as one of the nation's finest jazz flutists, has graced the stage and stunned audiences with her "rich tone and technique that never descends into gimmickry" for the last 30 years (Leonard Feather). As a soloist, she has performed with many jazz greats, including Red Holloway, Hubert Laws, Lanny Morgan, Frank Wess, Jeremy Steig, Freddie Hubbard, Chick Corea, Benny Carter, Airto and Flora Purim, George Cables, Billy Higgins, Buddy Collette, and Horace Silver, to name a few. Downbeat Magazine wrote "... her solo brought the house down!" [referring to her guest appearance with Hubert Laws at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.] Besides leading her own jazz band as both flutist and vocalist, she also performs with various orchestras and ensemble groups. Nika Rejto released her first album, Naked Emotions, on her own label, Unika Records, showcasing her multi- faceted talents as composer, arranger, and producer
Going My Way
By Zeena Quinn
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Lover; So in Love; Weird Nightmare; Amado Mio; The Peacocks; Joy Spring; O Cantador; Nica’s
Dream; Infant Eyes; It Might as Well Be Spring; Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered; I’m Just
a Lucky So and So.
Zeena Quinn: Going My Way
by Jack Bowers
With so many singers these days competing to tempt the ears of an ever-shrinking jazz audience, success often rests not only on the talents of the vocalist but on the songs he or she chooses to interpret. On Going My Way, San Francisco-based vocalist Zeena Quinn puts her best foot forward on the opening numbers, “Lover" ...
Little Wizdoms
By Nika Rejto
Label: UNika Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Hobo;
Little Wizdoms;
Falling Star;
Queen;
Moons of Mars;
Love Affair;
Hypnotized;
Felt Your Touch;
Swallows;
Boy With the Platinum Hair
Jazz Vocalist Vicki Burns Featured at Zeb's in New York August 18th 2010
Jazz singer Vicki Burns will be featured at Zeb's Jazz Vocalist series on August 18th in New York City. Leonard Thompson will be the featured pianist, with Saul Rubin on guitar, Ben Meigners on bass and Will Farrell on drums. Music from from Siren Song Burns' first recording as well as selections from her most recent ...
Midnite Kiss
By Nika Rejto
Label: UNika Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Midnite Kiss, Caterpillar Rag, The Way You Look Tonight, Crystal Door,
Please Don't Say Bonsoir, Melody of Love, Imagination, Rejtospective
Space, Avocado Madness, Chante des Arbes
Midnight Kiss
By Nika Rejto
Label: UNika Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Midnite Kiss,
Caterpillar Rag,
The Way You Look Tonight,
Crystal Door,
Please Don't Say Bonsoir,
Melody of Love,
Imagination,
Rejtospective Space,
Avocado Madness,
Chante des Arbes
Nika Rejto: Midnite Kiss
by Craig W. Hurst
On her newest release, Midnite Kiss, flautist Nika Rejto “burns” on an instrument that is often thought of as a delicate option in the woodwind family. In contrast to the breathy aggressiveness of the sound of Herbie Mann or the vibrato-laden shimmer of Lou Tabackin, Rejto’s tone is more classical in nature. While her tone may ...
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