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’s performances, compositions, and recordings have
touched the hearts and souls of listeners in America, Africa, the
Caribbean, South America, Europe, and Asia for the past 25 years.
For the past 14 years Jay has been director of the Wesleyan University
Jazz Orchestra, where he has taught hundreds of students.
Jay Hoggard's recordings reflect the breadth of his musical vision:
solo and ensemble; acoustic and electric; original compositions
and standard tunes. Jay’s performance repertoire includes
the vocabulary of the jazz tradition (Blues, Ballads, Bop) along
with original innovations. He has recorded 16 CD’s as a leader
and over 50 as a collaborator. Jay Hoggard’s Fall 2004 release,
Songs of Spiritual Love, is a duo recording of sacred music with
pianist / organist James Weidman. Jay’s Fall 2003 release
,The Right Place, features vibraphone, marimba, woodwinds, keyboard,
bass, and percussion embracing jazz improvisation with African and
Caribbean rhythms. Recent sideman recordings include collaborations
with Anthony Braxton (Duo), Hilton Ruiz (Crusin’ with Tito
Puente), Yoron Israel (Basic Traneing), James Weidman (All About
Time), and Kwaku Kwache Obeng ( Afrijazz).
Born September 28, 1954 in Washington, DC,Jay Hoggard was raised
in Mt. Vernon, New York in a religious family. At age 16, 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 xylophone music. After graduation in 1976, Jay returned
to New York City where he was proclaimed "the most dazzling
new vibraphonist in jazz" by Robert Palmer in the New York
Times.
Jay Hoggard has been honored and commissioned as a composer in various
contexts. He collaborated as composer with choreographer Cleo Parker
Robinson on 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. In
2000 , he was commissioned by Wesleyan University to compose Joyful
Swamp and Crossing Point for Max Roach and percussion ensemble.
These compositions are included on The Right Place. In 2001 Wesleyan
commissioned Vibarimbala for symphonic and jazz orchestra with vibraphone
soloist.
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 (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. He has been featured on
television nationally and internationally.
Jay has 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, James Newton, Oliver Lake, Sam Rivers, Anthony
Braxton, Jorge Dalto, Terumasa Hino, Dwight Andrews, Anthony Davis,
Henry Threadgill, Muhal Richard Abrams, Ahmed Abdullah, and was
a guest artist with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band. Jay has accompanied
singers, instrument-alists, and poets and has performed with gospel,
theater, dance, percussion, and orchestral ensembles.
Jay Hoggard and his wife Donna, a public health professional, have
two children, Jamal and Kalila.
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Jay Hoggard Concert and Recording Highlights
as a leader unless noted otherwise
2004:
December 2-5 San Juan, Puerto Rico w/ Hilton Ruiz
November 7 Schomburg Center NYC Tribute to Bishop J Clinton Hoggard
(download the program from this concert here).
November 5 Schomburg Center Opening of Romare Bearden Exhibit
October 23 Riles Jazz Club w/ Yoron Israel
October 18 Duo recording w/ Anthony Braxton Crowell Hall
October 17 Russell Library, Middletown,CT w/ Fred Simmons
October 11 Yale University Battell Chapel w/ Dwight Andrews
October 10 Columbia University Chapel w/ Dwight Andrews
September 28 release of Songs of Spiritual Love
September 24 Regina Carter Crowell Hall Wesleyan Univ
September 14-19 San Juan, Puerto Rico w /Hilton Ruiz recorded a
network television show but concerts postponed because of hurricane
August 25 Manhattan Cable w/ Hilton Ruiz, Felipe Luciano Show
August 13 Jazz Mobile@ Marcus Garvey Park (cancelled by rain)
August 9 Jazz Mobile@ Harlem Hospital ,NYC
August 8 New Haven CTV live television show
August 7 JazzMobile @ Harlem School For The Arts
July 18 Bridgeport CT International Performers Festival
July 17 Hartford Jazz Festival
July 4 Middletown CT Independence Day Festival
June 25 Ottawa,Canada Jazz Festival w/ Roswell Rudd
June 16 Clifford Brown Jazz Festival Wilmington, Del w/Cecelia Smith
June 12 Needham MA Jazz Festival w/ Yoron Israel
May 2 Weleyan Jazz Orchestra Green Street Arts Center,Middletown,CT
May 1,April 30 Weleyan Jazz Orchestra Crowell Concert Hall
April 27 Weleyan Jazz Orchestra Keigwin School Middletown, CT
April 15 Weleyan Jazz Orchestra Farm Hill School Middletown, CT
April 13 Weleyan Jazz Orchestra McDonnough School Middletown,
April 8 Weleyan Jazz Orchestra Snow School Middletown, CT
Mar26-28 Recording w/ Hilton Ruiz Sextet, Cruisin’ With Tito
Puente,NYC
March 21 Cross Street AME Zion Church Middletown,CT
March 10 Regatta Jazz Club, Charles Hotel Boston w/ Yoron Israel
March 2 El Hadj Jeli Sory Kouyate, Abu Sylla, Famoro Kouyate
balafon masters, World Music Hall Wesleyan University
Feb 28 Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra for Stanley Cowell masterclass, Crowell
Hall,Wesleyan University
Feb 16 Blue Note NYC w/ Yoron Israel
Feb 14 Wesleyan Memorial Chapel w/ Ron Ebrecht
Feb 8 St Luke Episcopal Church New Haven, CT w/ Ron Ebrecht
Jan 23-24 Cecil’s Jazz Restaurant West Orange NJ
Jan 17 Internet Live Broadcast of Jay Hoggard 's Africaribbean Vibes
on WBGO FM from J&R Music World NYC
Jan 9-11 Jazz Gallery, NYC
2003:
Nov 8 Westchester Conservatory,White Plains,NY
Nov 5 Release of The Right Place
Oct 12 Christ’s Episcopal Church, Needham, MA w/ Yoron Israel-
Oct 10 Riles Jazz Club Boston w/ Yoron Israel
Sept 16 Wesleyan World Music Hall w/ Taylor Ho Bynum
July 10-13 Recording w/ Giacomo Gates Sonalyst Studios, Waterford,CT
June 25 w/ Hilton Ruiz,, Dave Valentin Latino Journalist Association
Museum of Natural History,NYC
May 14,15 Recording Basic Traneing w Yoron Israel Berklee Studios,
Boston MA
May 13 NBC Dateline sement w/ Dwight Andrews Carroll Studios NYC
May 4 Russell Library w/Fred Simmons
May 2,3 Crowell Hall Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra w/Phil Woods
Apr 29 Mt St John School WJO
Apr 24 Snow School Wes Jazz Orch
Apr 21 Blue Note NYC w/ Yoron Israel
Apr 13 Cross Street AME Zion Church ,Middletown,CT
Apr 12 Connecticut College ,Walls Temple AME Zion Church Anniversary
Apr 3 Berklee College of Music masterclass /performance
Mar 29,30 Soundtrack Recording for film Hole in One Brooklyn, NY
Feb 16 Mc Donough School Wes Jazz Orch
Jan 19 Westchester Choral Arts Society, Tarrytown NY Music Hall
Ellington Sacred Concert
Jan 4 ,5 Recording of The Right Place and Songs of Spiritual Love
2002:Dec 27,28 Jazz Gallery NYC
Dec 3 Kennedy Center Internet Broadcast Lionel Hampton Tribute (link)
Oct 28 Metropolitan AME Zion Church, Hartford
Sept 29 Russell House w/ Fred Simmons
Set 17-19 First Congregational Church,Atlanta GA w/ Dwight Andrews
Sept 8 Hartford Park Jazz Festival w/ Alvin Carter
Aug 15 Boardwalk Hotel, Las Vegas,Nevada
July 26,27 Jazz Gallery NYC
July 24 Manhattan School of Music / ASCAP Foundation
May 10 Kennedy Center Washington DC, w/Sherry Winston
April 27 w/ Bobby Hutcherson Crowell Hall
April 26 Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra and Percussion Ensemble
April 11 Westmoreland School New Britan,CT W J O
April 9 Keigwin Middle School Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra
April 5 McDonough Elementary School Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra
March 21 Western CT State Univ Danbury,CT w/Sherry Winston
March 15 Palace Theater Stamford,CT w/Sherry Winston
Feb 10 Schomberg Center NYC Walter Christmas Memorial
Feb 1 Le Moyne College, Syracuse NYFeb 23 Hall Center Bridgeport,CT
w/ Vishnu Wood
Feb 15 Crowell Hall Wesleyan Univ w/ Giacomo Gates
Feb 14 Frontline Cafe Hartford,CT w/ Alvin Carter
Feb 9 Abraham Adzenyah Tribute Crowell Hall
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