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Rob Luft Quartet: Echoes of Silence!
An EFG
London Jazz Festival 2026 Performance
Friday 20th November ’26 at Jazz Café Posk
On Friday 20th November 2026
Bar 7 pm
/ music 8 pm
→ Tickets £15 on the door
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Rob Luft
Quartet: Echoes of Silence
Line up:
Rob Luft
- guitar
Joe
Wright - saxophone
Tom
McCredie - bass
Corrie
Dick - drums
Rob Luft,
recently crowned ‘Instrumentalist of the Year' at the 2025 Parliamentary Jazz
Awards, is undeniably one of the most exciting jazz guitarists in Europe of his
generation. Hailing from London, this award-winning 32-year-old virtuoso has
garnered consistent comparisons to legends such as Bill Frisell, John
Abercrombie & Pat Metheny.
His debut
album, "Riser," released in 2017 on Edition Records, made an
enormous impact on the domestic and international jazz scenes, and was selected
by Downbeat Magazine as one of the finest albums of 2017. Winning the
prestigious Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize at The Royal Academy of Music propelled
Luft's career, and at just 23 years old, he presented a collection of originals
showcasing a remarkable instrumental sound and compositional voice that
reflected his individuality.
His
highly anticipated follow up album, "Dahab Days," showcased
continuous artistic growth and musical exploration. Released on Edition Records
in October 2023, the album marked another significant milestone in his career.
Around this time, Luft's selection as a BBC New Generation Artist culminated with
him being commissioned to compose a guitar concerto for performance at the 2023
London Jazz Festival with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth
Hall.
Recent
collaborations with John Surman, Anders Jormin & Elina Duni on Manfred
Eicher’s legendary German record label ECM Records have further
solidified his reputation and expanded his reach throughout continental Europe.
He has toured with many leading international jazz artists, to name a few:
Aaron Parks, Avishai Cohen, Arild Andersen, Django Bates, Manu Katché & Ben
Wendel,
Other
accolades for Rob include the Silver Prize in the 2016 Montreux Jazz Guitar
Competition at Montreux Jazz Festival, adjudicated by British guitar great John
McLaughlin, as well as winning the Presto Music “Jazz Recording of the Year”
2020 for his collaborative album “Lost Ships” on ECM Records with Elina
Duni, Fred Thomas & Swiss trumpeter Matthieu Michel. In the summer of 2026,
he was named in Downbeat Magazine’s 74th Critics Poll as one of the Rising
Stars of the electric guitar globally.
"The
most fully-realized and rewarding debut album from a guitarist-composer since
Julian Lage's 2009 outing, Sounding Point” - Downbeat Magazine, USA
"The
virtuosity of the three guitarists Al di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de
Lucia is reminiscent of the Londoner Rob Luft”- Spiegel Online, Germany
"Rob
Luft is always travelling, and as he travels, he absorbs every kind of music in
his path, creating hallucinogenic new worlds of sound as he goes” - Jazzwise
Magazine, UK
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Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0kq5Af_Aj4