Jay Telfer would have been pleased and proud

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It has been more than 3 years since friend and composer/musician Jay Telfer passed away, but tributes keep coming in to the web page I put up about the guy.
This morning, a comment arrived from Marc Coulavin, saying that he had helped produce a reissue (on vinyl!) of A Passing Fancy‘s first single. Read all about it here… and thanks, Marc.

5 comments

  1. Nice tribute Bill, and am honoured that Jay introduced us … the friendship survives him. As you’re aware the Telfer clan and mine were childhood neighbours and became lifelong friends, moms, dads, all 5 kids between 2 families.
    We grew up together, although really ‘growing up’ was not so high on Jay’s agenda, nor mine — a personality item we had in common at the core. I was mid-nowhere Indonesia when Jay passed away, getting there by motorcycle, and Jay was following the trip enthusiastically, even a bit enviously. We’d never corresponded much but in his last months the back-forth emails were frequent and as always full of humour and desire to travel again. He really wanted to get back in his VW and spend time in Florida sun and I wrongly figured he would.
    Jay’s life was no ‘straight line’, his creativity and sense of new beginnings led him this way and that searching for whatever it was he sought at the time. But he did it his way. And he left a lasting impression on all who knew him, which is clear from the comments people added to your blog. We all miss him.
    Bill, thanks for having a forum where people can say so. Peter

  2. Yes, Peter, it’s true… we might never have met if Jay hadn’t told me about this guy who was selling Macs for a good price. And from there, I became a dedicated Mac user and escaped a thousand Windows woes for decades thereafter!
    Actually, Jay said you were selling Macs out of your apartment at the time. You had just opened the legendary Mac Store in Toronto and that’s where you introduced me to my mighty Mac IIci.
    I like your observation that our friendship survives him. Right on.
    BTW, you were one of the many guests who attended Jay’s 60.5th birthday party at the Balmy Beach Club. You may have reviewed the photos that Jay put up on Picasa. They are still there.
    http://picasaweb.google.com/JayDeeT/JayS605Birthday#

  3. Bill. As Jay’s brother and a one time member of A Passing Fancy what a wonderful surprise to see your tribute pages to Jay.
    It was brought to my attention by the ubiquitous Peter S.
    Thanks so much for keeping Jay’s memory vibrant and updated in this digital age.
    Ian

  4. Thanks for leaving your comment, Ian. I know you were a great support for Jay, especially in the later years with his health problems. As I said to you at his memorial service, I don’t think he could have had a better brother.

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