Samo Salamon

Genres: jazz, guitar, slovenia, jazz guitar, gammarec

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About Samo Salamon

Slovenian jazz guitarist and composer. SAMO ŠALAMON is one of the most talented young guitarists and composers to emerge on today's jazz scene. He began his musical journey by studying classical guitar in Maribor and continued briefly with studying jazz guitar on the jazz conservatorium in Klagenfurt. In December 2000 he was living with and studying individually for one month in New York with the jazz master John Scofield, with whom he has been a friend for years. Through the years he was studying guitar and had lessons with known guitar players such as Rudy Linka, Tim Brady and Andrea Allione. So far he has recorded for labels Fresh Sound New Talent and Splasch Records and played with many great international and slovenian jazz musicians (John Scofield, Paul McCandless, Mark Turner, Michel Godard, Drew Gress, Tony Malaby, Mark Helias, Tom Rainey, Donny McCaslin, Dave Binney, Josh Roseman, Gerald Cleaver, John Hebert, Julian Arguelles, Carlo DeRosa, Tyshawn Sorey, Matt Brewer, Kariem Riggins, Luciano Biondini, Jim Mullen, Rudi Mahall, Fareed Haque, Don Falzone, Rudy Linka, Tim Brady, Paolino Dalla Porta, Ares Tavolazzi, Roberto Dani, Joris Teepe, Bruno Cesselli, Zlatko Kaucic, Salvatore Maiore, Kyle Gregory, Emanuele Cisi, Gianluca Petrella, Achille Succi, Steve Altenberg, Yayoi Ikawa, Kruno Levacic, Igor Lumpert, Dusan Novakov, Andrea Allione, Axel Dörner, Uli Jennesen, Loris Bertot, Jan Rhoder, Danilo Gallo, Dejan Pecenko, Alex Deutsch, Luigi Mosso, Aya Shimura, Francesco Bigoni, Giorgio Pacorig, Igor Bezget, Andjelko Stupar, Milan Nikolic, Manfred Josel, Nino Mureškic, Gasper Bertoncelj, Jure Pukl, Aljosa Jeric, Vasko Atanasovski, Robert Jukic…). "Samo Salamon deserves to be considered in the same breath as contemporary guitar innovators like Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Monder and Adam Rogers." (John Kelman, All About Jazz 2007)

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