CISI-SALAMON-KAUCIC TRIO (ITALY, SLOVENIA)

Performers:

Samo Salamon (guitar)

Emanuele Cisi (tenor, soprano saxophone)

Zlatko Kaucic (drums)

SAMO SALAMON is a jazz guitarist and composer, working also as a studio and project musician. 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 studied with the jazz master John Scofield in New York, other than that he has had guitar lessons with many other known guitar players (Rudy Linka, Tim Brady and Andrea Allione).

Cooperating with many bands and project, he has cooperated with a great number of Slovene and foreign jazz musicians.

In 2003 Salamon released the highly acclaimed album Ornethology, which was featured at jazz festivals in Ljubljana, Skopje and Rome and got fantastic reviews from European and American critics.

At the end of 2004 he went back to New York to record two of his new projects with some of the best jazz musicians in the world: one was with Tony Malaby, Mark Helias and Tom Rainey, the other with Dave Binney, Josh Roseman, Mark Helias and Gerald Cleaver. For 2005 he has planed yet another trip to New York, where he is to record with a great new band featuring Chris Potter, Dave Binney, Drew Gress and Eric Harland.

ZLATKO KAUCIC moved to Italy in the early 70’s, where he toured and recorded with the band Hero and cooperated on the project Swiss. When he moved to Barcelona in 1976, he began playing in clubs and festivals all over the country with many renowned musicians, but he gave many a solo concert as well. In 1992 Kaucic returned to Slovenia, where he is much appreciated amongst musicians and known for his enviable percussion solos, that 100 percent express his unique style. In Slovenia he has cooperated in different musical project and played with Paul Bley, Steve Lacy, Enrico Rava, Gianluigi Trovesi, Chico Freeman, George Cables, Albert Mangelsdorff, Keeny Wheeler, Alexander Balanescu, Dave Biney and the likes.

EMANUELE CISI comes from Turin. He began studying alto sax by himself when he was sixteen. Later on he turned his interest in the soprano and tenor sax and attended seminars like Siena (1981-83), Perugia (1984) and Ravenna (1986, with Michael Brecker).

Since 1985 he has taken part in several festivals, radio and TV programmes by playing, both steadily and occasionally with musicians like Nat Adderly, Area II, Gary Bartz, Lou Blackbourn, Flavio Boltro, Rosario Bonaccorso, Luigi Bonafede, Walter Booker, Cameron Brown, George Cables to name just a few.

In January 1995 he was awarded by the Italian critics with the "Top Jazz" award for best new talent in 1994.

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