Rudy Linka

Rudy Linka, born in 1960 in Prague, is a jazz guitarist and composer. He fled communist Czechoslovakia for Sweden in 1980 and was awarded the prestigious Jim Hall Scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1985 and The New School in New York a year later. 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.