Jay lived alone in an apartment in New York city and was found dead from heart attack slumped over his computer where he spent many hours discussing flamenco with friends on Facebook. I believe this was Saturday. He wrote several articles on flamenco and Moron de la Frontera, some posted on this foro. He spent time in the 60's in Moron and knew all the gypsy flamenco artist there. He is still well known to the flamenco artist of Moron and Sevilla. He was an accomplished flamenco guitarist and studied letra extensively. I emailed him on occasion as we both suffered chronic pain and we discussed different meds and treatments. He was a professor and held a doctorate in medical ethics. RIP Jay.

Jay's daughter believes he died on Feb. 24 but wasn't discovered until Mar. 4th. Very sad and my best goes to his family. Planned memorial with music in New York Mar. 29th.

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In memory of Jacinto. Played open (no cejilla) on my 74 homemade negra. Recorded unrehearsed and played from emotion after receiving news about Jay. I had the recorder going working on a tango falseta and felt moved to play a siguiriyas best I could. Feel free to post a siguiriyas you play on this thread in his memory.
Siguiriyas Jacinto.mp3

I didn't know Jay Kantor but I wanted to show my respects to a fellow aficionado by posting my first ever audio recording however I keep getting a server error message. Perhaps I am doing something wrong.

ecwriter wrote:I didn't know Jay Kantor but I wanted to show my respects to a fellow aficionado by posting my first ever audio recording however I keep getting a server error message. Perhaps I am doing something wrong.

Did you convert it to mp3 format? Most recorders record in wav and then have a file for converting to mp3 and a choice of rates. I use 192, but for larger 128 sounds good for guitar. Looking forward to hearing your playing. To me playing something for a occasion like this is the real deal and helps one grasp the true roots of flamenco.

Be sure the audio file name extension is in lowercase (.mp3), rather than uppercase (.MP3), characters. Some audio recorders use uppercase characters for file names, but uppercase names are not suitable for use on the Internet. Some computer systems are case-sensitive and others are not, so to insure compatibility internet-wide, lowercase has been become the standard.

The forum upload software will accept audio files that have uppercase characters in the main parts of their names, but not in the name extension. That is because uploaded files are renamed internally for security reasons, but name extensions are not renamed. In principle the system functions something like a card-file index system at a library. Uploaded files are put into storage like books are put on shelves in a library. They are each assigned a unique number and something like an electronic index card is created. When someone wants to download a recording, the software finds the index card containing the requested recording name and then uses the assigned number, rather than the name, to retrieve the file from storage. However, the original file name extension is maintained, because different types of audio files, such as .mp3, .wma, etc, have to be processed differently.

I also didn't know Jay Kantor, but it is obvious from what he wrote that he had long-term involvement with and interest in flamenco. It is sad when someone like that passes on.

-Bob

Still can't upload. Am I missing something? I select upload attachment, browse to find the file (mp3 is in lower case) Press add the file. It looks like it is uploading but then I get "The website cannot display the page" http 500 error.
But you are not missing much.

It is very sad to learn of the death of Jay "Jacinto" Kantor. Flamenco has lost one of its most knowledgeable, and possibly its most passionate, aficionado. Over the years, Jay graciously shared his expertise and enthusiasm with his many flamenco friends; and shared recordings, too--I treasure prized CDs he made for me of Antonio Chacón and also of Diego accompanying La Fernanda and Perrate de Utrera. He will be sorely missed.

Carlos

ecwriter wrote:Still can't upload. Am I missing something? I select upload attachment, browse to find the file (mp3 is in lower case) Press add the file. It looks like it is uploading but then I get "The website cannot display the page" http 500 error.

I just sent you an email message. Attach your audio file to your reply. I will find the problem and upload it for you.

-Bob

This is ecwriter's Siguiriya:

Siguiriya in memory of Jacinto .mp3


It is strange that you were unable to upload that file. I simply saved the file you sent by email to a desktop computer hard drive and then upload it as a normal user without doing anything special. Have you been able to upload files to the forum in the past?

ecwriter expressed concern in his email about embarrassing himself by offering this, but there is no reason to be embarrassed about his playing. It sounds both good and appropriate to the circumstances to me.

-Bob