Jay Hoggard has been played on NTS shows including Mr Beatnick, with Other Side Of The Ocean first played on 19 July 2016.

Jay Hoggard was raised in a religious family. He was born in Washington, D.C. but grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. His mother taught him how to play piano at a young age. At age 15, Jay started to play the vibraphone.[1] Hoggard first played piano and saxophone before picking up vibraphone.[2] He played with Anthony Davis and Leo Smith in the early 1970s in New England, and after moving to New York City in 1988, he worked again with Davis and…