Jay Middleton is a San Francisco Bay Area singer/songwriter who has been writing songs, releasing albums, forming & leading bands and entertaining people at thousands of live performances since 1985.

Middleton recently released his first solo album “Forward”, which is being called an “uplifting & ambitious, deeply textured & exquisitely produced album with a polished sound that unfolds kaleidoscopically into a variety of configurations.”

Many decades of personal friendships & musical connections aligned around the writing & recording of “Forward”. Some of the finest musicians that the vibrant & historic SF Bay Area music community has to offer coalesced around Middleton’s new songs to produce a record that critics are calling “the deeply considered, wickedly detailed work of mature talents.”