Updated: March 21, 2025
Jorge Cariglino is a jazz musician, guitarist, educator, composer, arranger and producer.
He was born in Buenos Aires where he studied with the most outstanding jazz musicians of the Buenos Aires scene, he developed his musical skills creating his own style based on the natural fusion of jazz with its cultural environment of the Rio de la Plata movement.
He is an eclectic composer who, due to his long career, covers different styles but always with a very refined aesthetic and following the great stream of the jazz guitar legends, such as Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino. His guitar playing is fluid, virtuous, strong and his sound is warm and clean. He currently lives in Madrid, where he teaches jazz and contemporary music, as well as playing with his group throughout Spain. At the same time he composes and produces his own music:
Jorge Cariglino Trio "Espejismo-Mirage", released in 2019 January
He has recently produced his latest recording "After The Storm" released in May 2024. The work contains only original songs by the composer featuring renowned jazz masters in the jazz guitar/organ trio format such as Pat Bianchi and Byron Landham plus Bobby Martinez and Carlos Rossi in the wind section.
He has shared stage and/or recorded with musicians as; Juan Carlos Cirigliano, Luis Vechio, Carlos Carli, Marcelo Peralta, Philip Catherine, Chris Kase, Bobby Martinez, Pat Bianchi, Byron Landham, Carlos Rossi, among many others.
Awards
UK Corporate Live Wire/Spain Prestige Awards as "Guitar Teacher of the Year" 2021/22
Gear
Guitars: Gibson ES175D Custom, Heritage 575 Custom, Heritage 535
Amplifier: Fender Deluxe Reverb 65 original.
Tags
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Jorge Cariglino: After the Storm
by Fran Kursztejn
Spanish-Argentinian guitarist Jorge Cariglino has maintained an important influence on the jazz game in Madrid for most of his life. He teaches in there, plays with a variety of local and international masters and bolsters an under-reported community to new heights of experimentation and collaboration, despite an unusually slim catalogue of recorded works. After the Storm is more than just a welcome showcase of a talented musician reintroducing his craft to the rest of the world. It is also an ...
Continue ReadingCariglino, Tekrar Eden, Satya & More
by Bob Osborne
An eclectic mix of new music on this edition of the show with guitars and pianos featuring. This international mix of music also includes and introduces a band that describe themselves as “minimalist rock" but whose compositions are influenced by bands that merged rock and jazz in their output. They are called Tekrar Eden and are from Sheffield U.K. , the duo offer a fresh perspective to the World of Jazz..Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Jorge Cariglino “Coming To ...
Continue ReadingPrimary Instrument
Guitar
Location
Madrid
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
Credentials/Background
Teacher: Credentials / Background
He has recently received recognition from the UK Corporate Live Wire/Spain Prestige Awards as "Guitar Teacher of the Year" 2021/22 for his long career and great experience as a teacher in different educational centers teaching intermediate and higher level guitar classes. Currently more than 30 years of teaching experience in modern music. From the 2014 -15 course he is a professor of modern guitar and jazz ensembles at the University "Alfonso X El Sabio", UAX. During the 2003-04 and 2004-05 courses he teaches jazz guitar and jazz ensembles at the "Conservatorio Superior de Música de Navarra". Since 1999 - 2000 he is a professor at the "Escuela de Música Creativa" in Madrid where he teaches modern guitar, harmony, improvisation and jazz ensembles. From 1988 to 1997 in Buenos Aires, as a professor of modern guitar, arrangements and director of the Big Band of jazz students of the "Center for Musical Studies of Juan Carlos Cirigliano", (Astor Piazzolla's former pianist).
