Mike Moreno

Mike Moreno (born October 8, 1978) is a jazz guitarist and composer from Houston, Texas.

In 1997, at the age 18, he moved to New York City to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music on a scholarship.

Moreno has since toured and recorded extensively with many prominent musicians in jazz today, including The Joshua Redman Elastic Band, Lizz Wright Band, Nicholas Payton Quartet, Meshell Ndegeocello, The Robert Glasper Experiment, Kendrick Scott Oracle, Stefon Harris Black Out, Aaron Parks Quartet, Terence Blanchard Quintet, Greg Osby 4, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Jeff "Tain" Watts Quintet, Kenny Garrett Quintet, and Ravi Coltrane Quartet.

He has also recorded and played with mainstream artists such as Bilal and Q-Tip, as well as peers John Ellis, Jeremy Pelt, and Marcus Strickland.

Mike is also on the Jazz Faculty at Manhattan School of Music, Temple University, The Aaron Copland School of Music, and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.

As a bandleader, Moreno has released six records.

According to an NPR interview in 2008, Moreno's main musical influences include trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, saxophonist Wayne Shorter, and pianist Herbie Hancock, as well as guitarists Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell.

Moreno began his musical training at the age of fifteen at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston.

Moreno's other records have been released through the Criss Cross Jazz label: First in Mind, released May 2011, Third Wish, released May 2008, and 3 for 3, released October 2017.

With John Ellis

With Kendrick Scott

With others

These include Lotus, released December 2015, Another Way, released March 2012, and his debut album, Between The Lines, released March 2007, all through World Culture Music.