He began playing in bands at school functions, coffee houses and nightclubs in and around the Kansas City area in 1969.

In 1977 Jay enrolled at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. His degree program was Guitar Performance. He studied classical guitar for three years with well-known guitarist and Christopher Parkening protégé, Douglas Niedt. In 1979 Jay began studying with John Elliott, a legend among Kansas City jazz musicians. He studied with John for seven years, up to Feb. of '86. All during this period Jay was playing full-time - locally in the Kansas City area as well as touring nationally as a sideman and later with his own band.

In 1986, tired of the roadwork and needing to be at home with his growing family, Jay started concentrating on building up a student load that would support them and keep him off the road. In a very short time he was teaching 80+ students a week and still performing locally 2 or 3 times a week. He also began accumulating recording equipment and has been releasing recordings of his own music since 1991 on his own record label, Music Room Records.

1991 - Released Industrial Moon - guitar oriented instrumental music that's stylistically varied.

1993 - Released  Waiting - Contemporary Christian music.

1997 - Jay is prominently featured on the Prime Cut Productions release JAM! Kansas City Style recorded live at Harling's Upstairs in Kansas City.

 1999 - Released Sound Tracks
 This CD is the sound track to a documentary video called "Warbonnets on the High Iron." The video documents the Santa Fe Railroad from Northern Missouri to the end of the line in California and was released in 1997. For information on the video contact
White River Productions

Also in 1999 Jay released a series of method books for guitar, Vertical Truth: Chordal Mechanisms for the Guitar. Reviewed in Jazz Ambassadors Magazine and Reviewed in Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine. He is currently building a national network of teachers who are using his books.

2001 saw the release of  Channeling Harold. This CD is classic Hammond Organ Trio style Jazz and features Hammond Organist Rich VanSant. Read a review

In 2003  White River Productions released the documentary Twilight on the Rails. This film about the demise of the beloved "Bud car" passenger service of B.C. Rail and the people and places along the line caught up in the history and politics of British Columbia  features a couple of Jay's compositions.

August of 2006: My Ship released. Acoustic guitar based singer/songwriter-type music with jazz influences. 12 original songs and 3 covers.

In 2010 Jay appeared in the documentary film, Kansas City Jazz & Blues: Past, Present & Future. A song from the My Ship CD (What the Blues are All About) was used in the soundtrack.

Jay has opened for or backed  many national and international acts including Marilyn Maye, Marion Meadows, Ronnie Laws, Billy Paul, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Black Oak Arkansas, Spirit, The Impressions and R Kelly. He works occasionally with Grammy-nominee Smooth Jazz artist Max Groove as well as Haji Ahkba (Van Morrison, James Brown). In the late '80's and early '90's, he was in 2 different bands led by famed jazz vocalist Kevin Mahogany. He has performed in a duo setting with jazz guitarist Steve Cardenas. In 2011 Jay began working with African pop singer Jose Hendrix.

In his capacity as the house guitarist at the weekly jam at Harling's Upstairs, he performed every Saturday afternoon with Mama Ray and the Rich VanSant Band for over twenty years hosting the longest running Kansas City jam session in existence. That jam session is in it's 27th year and still happens with Jay on guitar every Saturday afternoon at  BB's Lawnside Barbeque.

Over the years at Harling's Upstairs and now at BB's he has performed with  Marilyn Maye, Wilbert Longmire, Narada Michael Walden (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Santana, Sting, Whitney Huston, etc), Claude "Fiddler" Williams,  Karrin Allyson, and Will Matthews of the Count Basie Band, to name just a few.

Today Jay continues to perform, teach, write and record as a respected member of the Kansas City musical community. He performs several times a week as a freelance guitarist/singer in and around the Kansas City area. He continues to write and record out of his home studio doing soundtrack and instrumental work for clients nation-wide. He is also very much in demand as a teacher and is currently teaching 50 to 60 students per week.

Jay EuDaly lives in Kansas City, Missouri and he gets to play the guitar all day - every day.