“Jay's music falls in the Crossover genera, combining pop, jazz, and cinematic styles, avoiding the contemporary cliches of irony and the fashionable "Do It Yourself" esthetic, instead delivering, through the hands of a true master of the instrument, the guilty pleasure of a deep and direct emotional experience that reveals itself through a kaleidoscopic harmonic sensibility, a love of melody and musical narrative and a true organic sense of groove and rhythmic gesture. Not unlike some of the greatest solo piano works of Beethoven or the transcendental improvisations of Keith Jarrett, Oliver will use as a point of departure the simplest of tunes, but as the piece unfolds one realizes that in Oliver's hands the solo piano becomes the perfect vehicle for delivering an unencumbered and pure musical message. When listening to this music one feels reconnected to a fundamental truth where story matters, the notes matter, ideas matter, and that yes ... music can heal the soul.”