Samo Salamon

Slovenian jazz guitarist and composer born in 1978. He’s working also as a studio and project musician. He began his musical journey by studying classical guitar in Maribor and continued 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. Through the years he was studying guitar and had lessons with known guitar players such as Rudy Linka, Tim Brady and Andrea Allione in Trieste. He has played with musicians such as Michel Godard, Tony Malaby, Luciano Biondini, Loren Stillman, Roberto Dani, Tim Berne, Stefano Battaglia, Tom Rainey, Achille Succi, Carlo DeRosa and Tyshawn Sorey.