From 1985 to 1991 Jay was Lecturer of Composition and Orchestration at Xavier University. Jay currently teaches film scoring at Loyola University. He helped organize the Louisiana Composers Guild and served as the co-chairman of the Louisiana Music Commission from 1998-2004. Most recently, Jay served on the Bring New Orleans Back Subcommittee on Culture, then Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu’s Louisiana Rebirth Advisory Board, Board President of the Louisiana Cultural Foundation, and currently serves on the Board of Govenors of the Memphis Chapter of the Recording Academy. Jay was instrumental in helping craft Louisiana’s Sound Recording Tax Credit program.
Jay owns two music companies, Floating City Music, Inc and Carondelet Music Group, LLC.