Electric guitarist Samo Salamon is a native of Slovenia, one of few jazz musicians to hail from that country in southern Central Europe. Born September 10, 1978, he began studying classical guitar in his hometown of Maribor, and started with jazz studies at the jazz conservatory in Klagenfurt. During the winter of 2000 he took lessons in North America with clearly his biggest influence, John Scofield. He has also studied with Rudy Linka, Tim Brady, and Andrea Allione. In addition to Scofield, his biggest early influences were Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny, John Abercrombie, Ornett...