The dream of every producer is to walk into a recording studio and hear someone so different, so special that he knows immediately that this is the one!

In late 2000, Jay got a call from a friend at Blue Note asking, "Would you record some demos with a new artist?" Jay replied, "Sure. Let's use Sorcerer Sound." Initially, Jay drove down to Sorcerer Sound with the artist to check it out. Then, he went to Brooklyn to see a rehearsal with her band. Jay recalls, "It was incredible. Surreal. I mean every single song was remarkable."

What Norah Jones knew when she chose to work with Jay was that he worked on some amazing records. Especially Etta James' first Grammy winner, Mystery Lady: The Songs Of Billie Holiday, which in Norah's words, 'influenced her greatly growing up'.

In October of 2000, Jay spent two days recording and mixing 13 songs as demos with Norah and her band. At first, someone else was brought in to produce a finished album. Blue Note rejected the initial version of the record. Norah's manager then asked Blue Note to have Jay re-record the music and mix the album with Arif Mardin as producer. Back to Sorcerer they went, following the same exact blueprint Jay laid down when he made the demos. They tracked a week, overdubbed in 2 to 3 days and mixed at Sear Sound in August 2001.

The Norah Jones debut release came out in February of 2002. Led by Jay's co-production of the breakout radio single, "Don't Know Why," Come Away With Me took six months to sell 500,000 units. Since that date, it sold 22 million-plus copies worldwide. Jay won four Grammys for that album including Engineer of the Year, Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Pop Vocal of the Year. All told Jay has 8 Grammys. Norah's follow up album, Feels Like Home, which was recorded and mixed by Jay, has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.

But don't believe for a second that Jay's career began here. Jay's work may have been widely recognized for Come Away With Me and Feels Like Home, yet Jay's been privileged (his words) to have worked with such Jazz greats as Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Keith Jarrett, Etta James, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Randy Weston, and Abbey Lincoln, Blues stars Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown w/ Eric Clapton, Charles Brown, Pinetop Perkins, James Cotton, Lowell Fulson, Robert "Jr." Lockwood and Taj Mahal and Gospel legends Mavis Staples and The Dixie Hummingbirds along with Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder.

From Berklee College of Music in Boston to RCA Studios on West 44th Street in New York City to his role today as a multi-Grammy winning producer/engineer/mixer, Jay clearly understands where he came from.

Jay just completed producing and mixing Sophisticated Ladies (Universal) by the Charlie Haden Quartet West feat. Renee Flemming, Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Melody Gardot, Diana Krall and Ruth Cameron. Prior, Jay worked on his third-record-in-a-row with French superstar, Ayo, entitled Billie-Eve (Universal France) which debuted at #1 on the French charts. He also produced and mixed Montreal's Terez Montcalm entitled Here's To You, Songs For Shirley Horn (Universal).

Jay's recording masterpiece, Esperanza Spaulding's Chamber Music Society (Concord) was the release which gained her not only critical acclaim but also Best New Artist of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards!

Jay produced the latest Eddy Mitchell, Come Back, and Thomas Quasthoff, Tell It Like It Is, releases for Universal France and Deutsche Grammophon respectively. He also produced the upcoming eponymous 6 song EP by Cocoroyal release.

Jay also produced 74 for the French artist, Sly Johnson and mixed (as well as produced) Maurane (Universal France). Previously, Jay mastered the final performances of Stan Getz. Jay has just finished mixing the upcoming Okou release as well as the debut by Andrew Ryan (Divulge).

Prior, Jay produced and mixed the single, "Change Is Gonna Come," with vocalist Lizz Wright and was in the studio recording Hughes Aufray's upcoming release for Mercury/France. He just returned from Montmarte where he produced, recorded and mixed Juliette Greco for Polydor/France.

Jay produced and mixed AYO's second album, Gravity At Last (Universal France). Like Joyful, Gravity At Last went to #1 on the French charts! AYO's current release, Joyful (Interscope) has gone multi-platinum in both France and Germany due to it's amazing, infectious single, "Down On My Knees". Without skipping a beat, Jay produced and mixed three jazz albums with Hammond B-3 genius, Lucky Peterson. Jay also produced and mixed Richie Haven's brilliant No One Left To Crown. He also mixed Leslie Mendelson's debut release, Easy Love (Rykodisc).

Jay produced and mixed Painted On Water's debut release, Ebru, featuring Sertab Erener and Demir Demirkan with special guests Al DiMeola, Mike Stern, Dave Weckl and Kai Eckhardt. Prior, Jay produced and mixed Morley's album, Seen (Universal/France), co-produced and mixed Abbey Lincoln's Abbey Sings Abbey (Verve) and mixed Linda Thompson's Versatile Heart (Rounder Records).

Jay co-produced and mixed Eran James' second album, 10 Songs About Love, (Universal/Australia) with producer/songwriter Tom Nichols in New York City. Jay also mixed Kelly Sweet's single, "Raincoat", from her debut release, We Are One (Razor and Tie).

Jay is well-known for his work with Australian artist Missy Higgins. Jay mixed Missy's 10x platinum release, The Sound Of White (Warner Bros.), as well as her debut EP All For Believing (Warner Bros.)

Previously, he recorded and mixed Nocturne and Land of Sun Charlie Haden's gorgeous Grammy-winning Verve jazz releases, Gonzalo Rubalcaba's Paseo (Blue Note) and Claude Nougaro's La Note Bleue (Blue Note France) as well as the stereo and 5.1 mix of Norah Jones' current live concert DVD, Norah Jones and the Handsome Band-Live 2004.