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Introducing Saxophonist Jay Thatte

by Sanford Josephson
August 1, 2026

Jay Thatte has been playing music since he was seven years old, starting out on classical piano. In the sixth grade at Newark Academy, a coeducational private day school in Livingston, NJ, where he lives, he was exposed to jazz by Julius Tolentino, the Director of Bands. “He introduced me to clarinet and saxophone," Thatte recalled. “I've been taking lessons from him since then. I didn't go to Newark Academy for music, but it was like a stroke of luck. ...