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from so-far unreleased albums:

SAMO SALAMON NYC QUINTET  (USA/SLO) Dave Binney - alto saxophone Josh Roseman - trombone Samo Salamon - guitar Drew Gress - bass Gerald Cleaver - drums	1. Up And Down (Salamon) 2. Eat The Monster (Salamon) 3. How They Washed My Brain (Salamon)
SAMO SALAMON NEW QUARTET  (USA/ITA/SLO) Achille Succi - alto saxophone, bass clarinet Samo Salamon - guitar Carlo DeRosa - bass Tyshawn Sorey - drums	1. When We Go Away (Salamon) 2. Miss Sarcasm (Salamon) 3. A Step Back (Salamon)
SAMO SALAMON EUROPEAN QUARTET  (FRA/GB/ITA/SLO) Michel Godard - tuba Julian Arguelles - tenor and soprano saxophone Samo Salamon - guitar Roberto Dani - drums	1. Black Tears (Salamon) 2. Excuse Me, Mr. Frisell? (Salamon) 3. Hebe (Salamon)
MAMASAAL QUARTET  (USA/SLO) Mark Turner - tenor saxophone Samo Salamon - guitar Matt Brewer - bass Aljosa Jeric - drums	1. Happy Girl (Salamon) 2. High Heels (Salamon) 3. Internal Affairs (Salamon)

from released albums:

SAMO SALAMON QUARTET: Two Hours (2006)

SAMO SALAMON SEXTET: Ela's Dream (2005)

SAMO SALAMON QUARTET: Ornethology (2003)

SAMO SALAMON QUARTET: Two Hours (2006) Fresh Sound Records 2005   BUY THE CD: www.freshsoundrecords.com (FSNT 234) Tony Malaby - tenor saxophone Samo Salamon - guitar Mark Helias - bass Tom Rainey - drums 1. Empty Heart     5.59 (Salamon) 2. One For Steve Lacy     5.39 (Salamon) 3. A Melody For Her     6.14 (Salamon) 4. Does David Know He's Not Brown?     3.58 (Salamon) 5. Where's The Bill?     3.38 (Salamon) 6. Silence Of The Poets     5.07 (Salamon) 7. Mind Breezer     4.23 (Salamon) 8. Blink     5.44 (Salamon) 9. The Lonely Tune     7.33 (Salamon) 10.Coffee With A Girl     5.00 (Salamon) Recorded by Mike Marciano at Systems Two in Brooklyn, New York on November 17th 2004

SAMO SALAMON SEXTET: Ela's Dream (2005) Splasch Records 2005 BUY THE CD: www.splaschrecords.com (under number H869) www.jazzos.com/products0.php?module=artists&artist=502130 Dave Binney - alto saxophone Kyle Gregory - trumpet Achille Succi - alto saxophone, bass clarinet Samo Salamon - guitar Paolino Dalla Porta - bass Zlatko Kaucic - drums, percussion 1. Coffee With A Girl        18.25 (Salamon) 2. Emotional Playground        15.22 (Salamon)  3. There's Still Dog Food Left In It        15.34 (Salamon)  4. Ela's Dream        19.53 (Salamon) 5. Broken Windows        10.20 (Salamon) CRITICS: "With Ela's Dream, young Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon has made an album that is not only top shelf, it may be important as well. With its variety, movement, and sheer joyous energy, this program presents jazz as a music of almost infinite possibilies." (ALLABOUTJAZZ, April 2005) "He adds an almost dizzying energy, and he swings hard. The net effect is what Ornette Coleman might sound like if his primary instrument were guitar instead of alto saxophone." (ALLABOUTJAZZ, April 2005) "Further, his compositions, with their changing tempos, time signatures, and multiple themes, give the album a nearly epic sweep."  (ALLABOUTJAZZ, April 2005) "...a Salamon and Kaucic duet that, with its power and intensity, recalls Trane and Elvin Jones reaching for the stars. Only it's not; it's something new that could only have come from these musicians, in this time." (ALLABOUTJAZZ, April 2005) "But Samo Salamon is just bursting from energy and creative ideas." (POLET, Jure Potokar, April 2005) "The record brings music which is greatly composed, sunny and daring, and at moment it almost amazes because of its imaginative concepts, techinally brilliant playing and surprising interplay of all musicians." (POLET, Jure Potokar, April 2005) "The music is therefore full of innovation, amusing and productive improvisation contents: it is especially the result of the flexibility and strong knowledge of the musicians, who can be part of the group play, but can at the same time run into individual experiments." (DELO, Gregor Bauman, April 2005)

SAMO SALAMON QUARTET: Ornethology (2003) Samo Records 2003 distribution by Statera Achille Succi - alto saxophone, bass clarinet Samo Salamon - guitar Salvatore Maiore - bass Zlatko Kaucic - drums, percussion 1. A Fake Monk     8.32 (Salamon) 2. Alien Child     8.20 (Salamon)  3. The Creative Force    10.53 (Salamon)  4. Does Your Girlfriend Know You Play Free Jazz? 2.27 (Salamon/Succi/Maiore/Kaucic) 5. Out For A Walk    5.37 (Salamon) 6. Uncork The Bottle    3.29 (Salamon/Succi/Maiore/Kaucic) 7. Where’s The Bill?    5.07 (Salamon)  8. Achille     1.03 (Succi) 9. Two Poles     4.21 (Salamon) 10. Major Salva     1.08 (Maiore) 11. Something Ology    5.33 (Salamon)  12. Samoel     1.13 (Salamon) 13. Tribeca     6.38 (Salamon)  14. Jaka The Dog    1.08 (Kaucic) 15. Humpty Dumpty    5.43 (Coleman) 16. Aguri – The Birthday Party   1.36 (Salamon/Succi/Maiore/Kaucic)  CRITICS: »Šalamon is coming through on his own, using singular single note, chords, and ideas rendering various jazz undercurrents with resolve, depth and inventiveness. Never indulgent, disciplined and eager, Šalamon is major league material.« (ALLABOUTJAZZ, November 2003) »Samo Salamon is a young guitarist from Slovenia who may qualify as one of the hardest working musicians around. The result is a captivating program of contemporary jazz which, while there is some emphasis on free playing, has a construction and focus which puts it well ahead of other recordings of its kind. Think early 90s Blue Note Scofield, with less grease and blues and a more European aesthetic. As a writer, while the influences are also evident, he has managed to assimilate them with his own life experiences into something that is more distinctive and abstruse. Ornethology is strong evidence that Samo Salamon is a young musician to watch; with a maturity and vision greater than his years, there is little doubt that he is developing into an artist of consequence; the only hope is that he can break free of the barriers of his own country and garner the broader audience he so richly deserves.« (John Kelman, JAZZREVIEW, October 2003) »Album of the week!« (ALL ABOUT JAZZ, November 2003) »Very open music conceptually – great use of textures and sounds.« (CHRIS POTTER, November 2003) »A musical gift of great beauty.« (ALL ABOUT JAZZ, September 2003) »He is a composer and guitarist beyond his years, and a force to be reckoned with!« (GOLDMINE MAGAZINE, Joe Milliken, December 2003) »Ornethology is an album with active, forcing, creative and also aggresive music – however not letting beside the slower and relaxed moments. Ornethology takes the listener in the deeps of compositions full of interplay and tension and a strong group sound. It stands for all of the musicians that they have strong presence, high concentration and self-confidence in playing and experiment.« (Carina Prange, JAZZDIMENSIONS, September 2003) »I have to mention the line-up of the group , because it is not an everyday musical situation, but therefore also more interesting. Bass and drums playing together with guitar is not really so rare, however when we add the bass clarinet to that, then this is rather extraordinary. The criss-crossings of guitar and bass clarinet lines are beside the passages where the whole group goes into free improvisation the strongest moments on Ornethology. I have to say that there are no weak moments here!!« (Josef Pepsch Muska, JAZZLIVE, September 2003) »Considering his age and experience, both his writing and playing show a surprising degree of maturity; one wonders where he’ll be five years from now.« (John Kelman, EJAZZ NEWS, September 2003) »Leader of the new jazz generation.« (SLOVENIA TIMES, November 2003) "Ornette’s Slovenian Hands!" (ALLABOUTJAZZ, November 2003) »Ornette Coleman and John Scofield ought to be proud!« (ALLABOUTJAZZ, November 2003) »Jazz critics, however, ought to add this one to their “To Do” lists!« (ALLABOUTJAZZ, October 2003) »Jazz for the third Millenium.« (SPEKTER, March 2003)