About Me
Carlos Pino, a Jazz guitarist and composer from the Birmingham Alabama, is a graduate from the University of Alabama (B.A.) and Rutgers University (M.M. in Jazz Studies). While in college carlos studied guitar under Brian Lutterbie, Tom Wolfe then Vic Juris. Carlos also studied briefly with Jack Wilkins, Paul Bollenbach, and Ralph Bowen. Carlos Pino has shared the stage with artists such as Ellis Marsalis, Claudio Roditi, Oteil Burbridge, Col. Bruce Hampton, and Bill Kruetzmann. Carlos Pino has performed all over the country, Japan, and Colombia.
Carlos presently leads a jazz/fusion group , Smokin’ Newports, and is a sideman in several groups, ranging from big band jazz, spoken word improv, to rock and bluegrass. Carlos is a member musician in The Exibit(s) , Sharrif Simmons, Right Action Figures, and Nite Flight Big Band.
Carlos has also spends much of his time in musical theatre. He performs regularly with Red Mountain Musical Theater in Birmingham and with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival Theater in Montgomery, Alabama (West Side Story, Man of La Mancha, Godspell and Honky Tonk Angels). Carlos has also performed with the Rubicon Theater Company in Ventura, California (Man of La Mancha). Some of his other performance credits include Cats, Grease, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Batboy, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Beehive,Always Patsy Cline, Almost Heaven, and Doo-Wop. Carlos is in demand as a guitarist because of his versatility in various musical styles. In addition to performing, Carlos has been teaching guitar lessons privately for almost a decade.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
