Rudy Linka

Rudy Linka, born in 1960 in Prague, is a jazz guitarist and composer. In 1980 he fled communist Czechoslovakia to Sweden and in 1985 he received the prestigious Jim Hall Scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston and a year later at The New School in New York. Rudy has performed and recorded with John Scofield, Paul Motion, Jon Batiste and was voted one of the 10 best jazz guitarists by Down Beat magazine.