Vibraphonist /composer Jay Hoggard’s recording CHRISTMAS VIBES ALL THRU THE YEAR  features James Weidman on organ and piano and Bruce Cox on the drums.Jay says:  "This recording is about the joy, peace, love, and happiness that should traverse the world during the holiday seasons and throughout the whole year. I am a Christian, and this recording is about the reason for the Christmas season: the observance and re-enactment of the circumstances of the birth of Jesus. But this music is also an offering to human beings of all faiths and non- faiths, of the beautiful sounds of which I am blessed to be one of many, many channeling spirits." 


Joy To World

Don't Quit  (Jay Hoggard, Mombasa Music ASCAP)

Vibraphonist /composer Jay Hoggard’s recording CHRISTMAS VIBES ALL THRU THE YEAR features James Weidman on organ and piano and Bruce Cox on the drums.Jay says: "This recording is about the joy, peace, love, and happiness that should traverse the world during the holiday seasons and throughout the whole year. I am a Christian, and this recording is about the reason for the Christmas season: the observance and re-enactment of the circumstances of the birth of Jesus. But this music is also an offering to human beings of all faiths and non- faiths, of the beautiful sounds of which I am blessed to be one of many, many channeling spirits."

Let It Snow

Over My Head I Hear Music In The  Air - Go Tell It On The Mountain

We Three Kings - What Child Is This

Silent Night - Away In A Manger -  O Holy Night

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Rejoice Ye Pure In Heart

Little Drummer Boy

Deliver The Word, God Loves You

01 - Holy Spirit Consciousness

Jay Hoggard vibraphone
Ray Chew, Onaje Allan Gumbs piano, organ
Luico Hopper bass
Trevor Gale drums
Ebony Ecumenical Ensemble vocals

God Is Capable Of Everything

Jay Hoggard vibraphone
 c Jay Hoggard Mombasa Music, ASCAP

God Is Capable Of Everything (solo vibraphone)

Samba Pa Negra 
composed by Jay Hoggard (Mombasa Music, ASCAP)
Recorded November 18 1978  NYC

Solo Vibraphone

Samba Pa Negra

Comfort in the Storm
composed by Jay Hoggard (Mombasa Music, ASCAP)
Recorded November 18 1978 NYC

Comfort In The Storm

Believe In Yourself 
composed by Charlie Smalls
Recorded 11-18-1978 NYC

Believe In Yourself

From the recording SOLO FROM TWO SIDES  
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Kalila's Smile Jay Hoggard Mombasa Music ASCAP

Starting Over Performed by Jay Hoggard Quartet   Jay Hoggard vibraphone  James Weidman piano  Marcus McLaurine bass Yoron Israel  drums   Composed by Bobby Hutcherson

The Fountain

Starting Over  by Jay Hoggard Quartet Composed by Bobby Hutcherson

"Aguacate" Composed by Jay Hoggard Mombasa Music ASCAP
Jay Hoggard vibraphone Geri Allen piano 
Rick Rozie bass  Frederick Waits drums
Recorded June 22,1989 Alec Head engineer
From the recording  OVERVIEW

Overview

"Aguacate" by Jay Hoggard with Geri Allen, Rick Rozie, Frederick Waits

Riverside Dance  India Navigation IN 1068  
Jay Hoggard (vibraphone), Jerome Harris (bass), Vernon Reid (guitar), Onaje Allan Gumbs (keyboards), Pheeroan Aklaff (drums). 
Recorded  after an extensive tour of North Africa, the Middle East, and India, sponsored by the U.S. Government. This 1985 LP is an excellent showcase for vibraphonist Jay Hoggard. He performs Thelonious Monk's "Brilliant Corners", Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life" and five of his diverse originals with a quintet including keyboardist Onaje Allan Gumbs, guitarist Vernon Reid, bassist Jerome Harris and drummer Pheeroan akLaff. The inside/outside music is never predictable and inspires Hoggard to some of his best playing of the period.

Riverside Dance Remastered

Riverside Dance

IN THE SPIRIT album by Jay Hoggard was recorded May 4,1992 and released July 13, 1993 on the Muse label. IN THE SPIRIT is a tribute to Eric Dolphy. Jay Hoggard (vibraphone); James Newton (flute); Dwight Andrews (bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto flute); Mark Helias (bass); Ed Blackwell (drums). Recorded at Van Gelder Recording Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Liner notes by Owen McNallly.

In The Spirit

In The Spirit by Jay Hoggard

Vibraphonist Jay Hoggard’s music has touched the hearts and souls of listeners around the world for forty years. Noted journalist Owen McNally wrote "Jay Hoggard's artistry has a universal quality, an intellectual and emotional resiliency that makes it seem very much at home when creating something new and fresh in every genre from the roots of African music to the outer reaches of the blues ....He is not just one of the premier voices on vibraphone but also one of the top-seeded instrumentalists and composers of the jazz world today."

          Jay Hoggard draws on traditional and contemporary musical vocabulary to develop new directions for the vibraphone. Jay 's music is positive, spiritual, uplifting and happy. He seamlessly blends jazz and gospel roots with African marimba rhythms. His performance repertoire represents the three B’s of the jazz tradition (Blues, Bop, Ballads) with original innovations. Songs and extended compositions frame his virtuoso mallet improvisations.

          Born in Washington, DC, Jay Hoggard was raised in Mt. Vernon, New York in a religious family.His father was a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion denomination. At age 15, Jay began playing the vibraphone. "One night I had a dream that I was playing the vibes. I asked my father to rent me a set and from the first moment, I knew that this was what I was supposed to do." Jay majored in the renown World Music program at Wesleyan University . He toured Europe and played at Carnegie Hall during his freshman year. In his junior year, he traveled to Tanzania to study East African marimba music. Jay graduated from Wesleyan in 1976 and returned to New York City in 1977 to be proclaimed a young lion of the vibraphone.

           Jay Hoggard has recorded 22 CD’s as a leader and over 50 as a collaborator. For his latest disc, CHRISTMAS VIBES ALL THRU THE YEAR, Jay says"This recording is about the joy, peace, love, and happiness that should traverse the world during the holiday seasons and throughout the whole year. I am a Christian, and this recording is about the reason for the Christmas season: the observance and re-enactment of the circumstances of the birth of Jesus. But this music is also an offering to human beings of all faiths and non- faiths, of the beautiful sounds of which I am blessed to be one of many, many channeling spirits." This trio recording features James Weidman on organ and piano and Bruce Cox on the drums.

          SOLO FROM TWO SIDES is a beautiful program of 13 Jay Hoggard compositions performed by the composer on both vibraphone and marimba, by way of digital overdubbing. SOULAR POWER, released Fall 08, is an exquisite set of eleven Jay Hoggard compositions and one jazz standard. As Hoggard says, “this CD has the feel of a live performance with the benefit of studio quality sound. New tunes are combined with others that have evolved in performance over the years. I am about music that is both aesthetically pleasing for your mind and spirit, and physically healing for your body and soul. The power of soul is a mystical paradigm of consciousness transformation .”

          SOULAR POWER swings with great sonic balance among its instruments and artists. Pianist/ organist James Weidman, bassist Belden Bullock, and drummer Yoron Israel have performed and recorded as an ensemble with Jay for more than fifteen years. Their performances here are of a caliber that can only be delivered by long associated, empathetic collaborators.  

           SWING 'EM GATES, is a tribute to the late vibraphone grand master Lionel Hampton. “Eight of the compositions on this recording are tunes that I played when Lionel Hampton sent me to sub for him with his band in the 1990’s…Once, when Hamp called me to play for him, I asked what tunes he wanted. He replied, ’Just swing ‘em,gates.’ ” That conversation was the inspiration for Jays’ composition of the same name as well as the direction of this musical tribute to Hampton in Hoggard’s musical voice The recording features stellar performances by top New York collaborators with a guest appearance by piano master, Dr. Billy Taylor on three tunes.

          Jay Hoggard has been honored and commissioned as a composer in various contexts. In 2009, he was commissioned by dance troupe Sankofa Kuumba and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra to write THE OTHER SIDE OF THE OCEAN and LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR. Previously, Jay collaborated with choreographer Cleo Parker Robinson by composing THE WISDOM OF THE BAOBAB TREE commissioned by Lincoln Center Out of Doors. He was commissioned by the Hartford Festival of Jazz to compose LA TIERRA HERMOSA, dedicated to Tito Puente. He was commissioned by Wesleyan University to compose JOYFUL SWAMP and CROSSING POINT for Max Roach and percussion ensemble, and VIBARIMBALA for symphonic and jazz orchestras.

          As a performer, Jay Hoggard has toured the globe to rave reviews. He has performed in many of the finest venues of music presentation throughout the United States , Africa Europe, South America, the Caribbean, and Asia. Jay has performed in major venues (Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Schomberg Center) jazz festivals (St. Lucia. JVC, Montreux, Mt.Fuji, Pori, Hartford), colleges, universities, churches, galleries, libraries, and clubs around the globe. Jay has been featured on radio (NPR, Pacifica) and television (ABC Times Square, CBS Sunday Morning, BETJazz) nationally and internationally. He led a quintet on an extensive tour sponsored by the United States government to North Africa, the Middle East and India. Jay performed in special concert collaborations with vibraphone masters Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson, Tito Puente and Bobby Hutcherson. He has recorded and toured with creative artists such as Kenny Burrell, Dr. Billy Taylor, Max Roach, James Newton, Hilton Ruiz, Oliver Lake, Bennie Maupin, Sam Rivers, Anthony Braxton, Jorge Dalto, Terumasa Hino, Dwight Andrews, Geri Allen, Anthony Davis, Henry Threadgill, Vishnu Wood, Chico Freeman, Muhal Richard Abrams , Sherry Winston, Ahmed Abdullah, and was a guest artist with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band. Jay has accompanied singers, instrumentalists, and poets and has performed with gospel, theater, dance, percussion, and orchestral ensembles.

          Jay Hoggard is an Adjunct Professor of Music at his alma mater, Wesleyan University. For over 20 years, he has been the director of the Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra and has taught and mentored hundreds of students.

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