Jay is currently 20 Years old and has been playing the drum set for 6 years. Growing up in a two family home full of music lovers Jay had no choice but to learn to love music the same way. All though he had no one in the house who played an instrument, his father and grandfather were both disc jockeys. "I can remember many long nights as a child just sitting on the basement steps soaking in all the wonderful sounds and information I was getting through the music my grandfather and father would play. Everything from Nat King Cole ,John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins to Luther Vandross, Marvin Gaye, Anita Baker, Tribe Called Quest, Kurtis Blow, Grand Master Flash, Chubb Rock, The Isley Brothers and much more. Little did I know that sitting on that step and just listening to what was going on in those records, would set the stage for what my life would become".

After two whole summers of working in the hot summer sun cutting grass for a local daycare center. Jay saved up enough money to buy his first drum set going in to his freshmen year at Princeton High School in Cincinnati, OH. There he played the drums in the jazz band, all the school musicals, the gospel choir, and the show choir. He also sat first chair in the French Horn section of the top band, was a drum Major, and helped with the drum line.

Jay's first professional experience came his junior year in high school when he was asked to play for a local country artist named Don Freeman. "The show was amazing! just watching the crew set up and being able to play with really great musicians was the best part. Before that gig I would have never called myself a Country Drummer. I never played that type of music, but it did open my ears and allowed me to step out of myself and play something different". From there the list grow to different Jazz, R&B, Rock, and Gospel groups. Also being involved in city wide and state wide productions and taking on the musical director roll in most of the situations he found himself in.

Now in his sophomore year as a jazz studies major at Bowling Green State University Jay continues to grow musically. Although his work load for school is substantially large he still gigs regularly with The Argonauts ( a Ska band) and many other jazz and gospel groups. In 2007 Jay will be playing over 600 show at the Nationally known theme park Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio and in the future is looking forward to moving to the Los Angeles area and taking up a full time career in music.