The fact that guitarist Samo Salamon continues to surround himself with some of the brightest players in jazz is an inkling into his abilities as a performer and leader. To name a few: Drew Gress, ...

The independent non-profit label Giant Step Arts continues to cultivate its narrow but highly selective roster of top-tier players with new live recordings by label-regulars Mark Turner and Jason ...

Featuring outstanding new releases from Julian Argüelles, Elina Duni & Rob Luft, Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns, Maria Schneider ...

DURHAM — The University of New Hampshire Department of Music Traditional Jazz Series presents the Mark Turner Quartet Monday, Feb. 1, at 8 p.m. in Johnson Theater of the Paul Creative Arts Center, 30 ...

If idiosyncrasy is on your holiday wish-list, this intergenerational sax pairing should fulfill nicely. The veteran alto master often leaps in wonderfully unexpected directions, and his tenor-toting ...

Don't expect to have your bones rattled by Samo Salamon & Aljosa Jeric Quartet's Mamasaal feat. Mark Turner. It's a subtle, contemplative work, passing with the warm glow of an evening lost to ...

The modern mainstream doesn't often get as rarefied as this, and that very point is one of this quartet's greatest strengths. Guitarist Samo Salamon's playing is rhythmically ambiguous with a happily ...

That bandleaders Samo Salamon and Aljosa Jeric are Slovenian doesn't appear to be of much musical relevance; jazz settings of East European folk songs are not the order of the day here. But it might ...