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Samo Salamon

Born: October 9, 1978

SAMO ŠALAMON is "one of the most talented and interesting young guitarists and composers to emerge on today's jazz scene" (AllAboutJazz), being selected by the magazine Guitar Player as one of the hottest 10 new guitarists in the world. So far he has composed more than 280 compositions and recorded 31 albums as a leader for labels Clean Feed Records (Portugal), Fresh Sound New Talent (Spain), NotTwo Records (Poland), Splasch Records (Italy), Steeplechase Records (Denmark), Sanje Recordings (Slovenia), Klopotec (Slovenia) and Goga Records (Slovenia). So far he has played, cooperated, toured and recorded with many great international players like Howard Levy, Paul McCandless, John Hollenbeck, Mark Turner, Michel Godard, Drew Gress, Tony Malaby, Mark Helias, Tom Rainey, Tim Berne, Donny McCaslin, David Binney, Josh Roseman, Gerald Cleaver, John Hebert, Julian Arguelles, Dominique Pifarely, Carlo DeRosa, Tyshawn Sorey, Bruno Chevillon, Stefano Battaglia, Christian Lillinger, Pascal Niggenkemper, Matt Brewer, Loren Stillman, John O'Gallagher, Mikkel Ploug, Manu Codjia, Alex Machacek, Sabir Mateen, Szilard Mezei, Kariem Riggins, Luciano Biondini, Lester St

Dances Of Freedom

By Samo Salamon

Label: Samo Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Cream Of Ocean; Free Dances; Ocean Calimba; Dirty Zone; Conga; Morphbed; Pans; Indian Base; Hapi May.

Samo Salamon: Dances Of Freedom

by Dan McClenaghan
February 21, 2024

Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon released a top-ten-of-the-year masterpiece CD in 2022, Dolphyolgy: Complete Eric Dolphy For Solo Guitar (Samo Records). On this tribute to the late reedman who was always an unconventional, free-flying artist, Salamon examined every composition in the Dolphy songbook. Dolphy for guitar was a surprise and certainly must have been a challenge. Salamon ...

Alma Tree: Sonic Alchemy Suprema

by Karl Ackermann
January 31, 2024

New York native Ra Kalam Bob Moses grew up in the same building as Max Roach, Art Blakey and Elvin Jones. Early on he saw performances by many of the best jazz drummers in history, including Roy Haynes, Rashied Ali, Milford Graves, Billy Higgins, and Ed Blackwell. As a teenager in the mid-1960s, he played with ...

Jonas Kullhammar, Alistair Payne and Rich Halley Trio

by Maurice Hogue
January 22, 2024

This episode has a definite tilt to artists from Northern Europe with music from several different countries. Sweden's Moserobie Music catalog is featured in several tracks, particularly label founder and multi-reedist Jonas Kullhammar, while from the neighbouring Norway you'll hear music by saxophonist Andre Roligheten, bassist Dan Peter Sundland and the Bliss Quintet. Bassist Meinrad Kneer ...

Trespass Trio, Mikko Innanen, Mark Solborg & Noa Fort

by Maurice Hogue
December 18, 2023

If you like your music on the edge, this episode of OMJ has plenty, starting with Swedish saxophonist Martin Küchen and his Trespass Trio, Live In Oslo, ably abetted by the dynamic trumpet of Susana Santos Silva. Danish guitarist Mark Solborg's Babel draws upon language for his latest, while saxophonist Ivo Perelman continues his regime of ...

Vinny Golia, James Brandon Lewis & Eric Plaks

by Maurice Hogue
September 12, 2023

The full title to veteran California free jazz saxophonist and icon Vinny Golia's latest recording is very long (Even to This Day... Music for Orchestra and Soloists Movement Two: Syncretism: For The Draw but it pales in comparison to the length of the recording: 13.5 hours plus. Golia began he project before Covid. It features solo, ...

Carlos Bica, Coltrane/Dolphy & James Brandon Lewis

by Maurice Hogue
August 28, 2023

This show is highlighted by Portuguese bassist Carlos Bica's latest release on Clean Feed--Playing With Beethoven. Bica creates some very unexpected music. No one expected to hear em>Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy; the original recording sat undiscovered for many years. But it's now available and there's a great deal of buzz ...

Favourite Recordings of 2022

by Maurice Hogue
February 6, 2023

From an extended all-ECM special last show to close 2022 to this week's favourite shows of 2022 to open a new year. And let me wish you a healthy and productive 2023 while I have the floor. I've picked out music from a goodly number of my favourite releases out of an awful lot of great ...

Dolphyology: Complete Eric Dolphy For Solo Guitar

Label: Samo Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD 1: Miss Movement; Serene; The Prophet; Miss Ann; Lady E; 17 West; April Fool; Something Sweet, Something Tender; Springtime; Hat And Beard; The Baron; Iron Man; South Street Exit; Inner Flight I. CD 2: 245; Les; Lotsa Potsa; Straight Up And Down; Burning Spear; C.W.; Strength And Unity; Out To Lunch; Mandrake; Far Cry; In the Blues; Red Planet; Gazzelloni; Inner Flight II.