(2025). Born in Madrid Spain, Javi Jiménez has been playing and studying guitar for over 25 years. In 2007 he graduated from the Conservatory of Jazz Music in Barcelona Spain. During this time, he discovered the music of Django Reinhardt, falls in love with it and starts studying it.

In 2010 Javi moved to California, since then he has been performing & working as a studio musician. He composes, arranges and performs in his own band Barrio Manouche, a Blend of flamenco, Jazz Manouche and Latin rhythms. The band had played at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Outside Lands, Django Festival and Stern Grove Festival and he had open and share stage with national and International acts such as Devotchka (Little Miss Sunshine), Pink Martini, Boulou & Elios Ferré, La Santa Cecilia.

He also as an educator teaches and leads the guitar department at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts (SOTA), as well as private guitar students.