" Rock AnA roll saxophone pretty much begins with Big Jay Mc Neely. HeAs the king of the honkinA, squealinA, bar walkinA, flat-on-his-back BlowinA tenor men...A Born in Watts, California, on April 29, 1927, he formed his own band with jazz legends (mehr...)

" Rock AnA roll saxophone pretty much begins with Big Jay Mc Neely. HeAs the king of the honkinA, squealinA, bar walkinA, flat-on-his-back BlowinA tenor men...A Born in Watts, California, on April 29, 1927, he formed his own band with jazz legends Sonny Criss (alto sax) and Hampton Hawes (piano) while still in high school. But in late 1948, when he was asked to record for Savoy Records, he abandoned jazz for something more raucous and struck paydirt when his second release, a honked-up instrumental called "Deacon's Hop," went to 1 on the national R&B charts in February 1949. These days Big Jay McNeely spends a good deal of time playing in Europe, Australia and Japan, and he shows no signs of slowing down.

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