Presto Music Jazz Podcast

If you've been paying attention to the UK jazz scene over the past decade, the name 'Rob Luft' is bound to have cropped up on your radar at least once or twice. Having first emerged out of NYJO as a teenage guitarist from Sidcup, he went on to study at London's Royal Academy of Music where, upon graduating in 2016, he became the recipient of the Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize and was swi

For our first episode, Barney visits Oslo and speaks to the musical supercouple of John Surman and Karin Krog, as the British saxophonist prepares to go out on tour in support of his latest album Words Unspoken released on ECM. This agreeable pair discuss the early days of their respective careers, from their first meeting at the Montreux Jazz Festival as European winners of the Do