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	Big Jay McNeely (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cecil James (Big Jay) McNeely (born on April 29, 1927 in Los Angeles, California), is an American rhythm and blues tenor saxophonist.
		McNeely is known for his intense playing and his energetic and acrobatic stage performances.
		McNeely was inspired by Illinois Jacquet and by his teacher, Jack McVea.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/big_jay_mcneely (429 words)

	Big Jay McNeely was in supreme form; Bo Diddley was a charmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the most honorable elements of EMP is the organization's efforts to peel away the commercial layers of popular music and go to its essence, its heart and soul, with stops and side trips along the way back to the music's home in African American culture.
		Big Jay McNeely brought the tenor sax to prominence in the early days of rock.
		Though he didn't go through the physical antics that used to pack Los Angeles clubs in the ‘50s, McNeely was in supreme form and delighted the lawn full of old bikers, aging yuppies and their nouveau bohemian children.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /emp/bigjay.shtml (557 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BIG JAY MCNEELY’s back in town, honking, squealing, screaming, bleating, braying, blowing his sax like a one-man herd of gaseous cattle chewing up the bean fields—and that’s a good thing.
		During the ’50s, McNeely (with his brother Bob blowing unison lines on the bari) wreaked havoc with songs like "Nervous Man Nervous," "Real Crazy Cool," "Texas Turkey" and the incandescent "3-D," two and a half of the rawest, most energetic, mean-ass minutes of power ever laid down in a studio.
		Big Jay McNeely is now 72 years old, an age where perhaps his cranky colon and creaking joints make ruder noises than his horn.
	www.ocweekly.com /printme.php?&eid=12701 (980 words)

	Oldies.com : Big Jay McNeely
		As a tenor saxophonist McNeely was one of the pioneers of the wild, honking style that emerged in the dancehalls during the late 40s.
		Big Jay McNeely became a legend because of his amazing tenor sax playing and his exciting live performances.
		McNeely was as acrobatic a sax player as he was a dynamic one.
	www.dell.oldies.com /artist/view.cfm/id_41.html (331 words)

	CMT.com : Big Jay McNeely : Biography
		McNeely's raucous one-note honking on "The Deacon's Hop" gave him and Savoy an R&B chart-topper in 1949, and his follow-up, "Wild Wig," also hit big for the young saxist with the acrobatic stage presence.
		McNeely's live shows were the stuff that legends are made of -- he electrified a sweaty throng of thousands packing L.A.'s Wrigley Field in 1949 by blowing his sax up through the stands and then from home plate to first base on his back!
		McNeely went on to record for his own little label and tour the country and overseas regularly.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/mcneely_big_jay/bio.jhtml (480 words)

	Big Jay McNeely (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		McNeely continued honking in this manner through the 50's and 60's, took a job for the Post Office in 1971, which he quit in 1983 to get back into the old shtick.
		In the 90's, he is still playing this ancient rock and roll to the new crowd of kids whose parents were too young to know this type of music.
		His recent (1989) album with a band called "The Rocket 88's," shows a white-haired Big Jay, still in top form.
	www.hoyhoy.com /bigjay.htm (209 words)

	Mcneely Jim Mcneelyb.m. University Of Illinois. Jim Teaches A Course On The Jazz Orchestra As Well As Pia
		McNeely received his first critical acclaim as pianist with Ted Curson and Chet Baker.
		Interview by Randall D Joel McNeely: I attended The Interlochen Arts Academy for high school and was a composition and flute major.
		Dee McNeely is recognized by her clients and peers as and Sparks most experienced residential specialists - Dee McNeely.
	www.99hosted.com /names12695.html (461 words)

	Various \| The Big Horn: The Complete History of the Honkin' and Screamin' Saxophone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was not until the 1940s with the rise of Lionel Hampton's Big Band and Illinois Jacquet's solo on “Flying Home” that the voice of the tenor sax became confirmed as the dominant horn in the popular mind.
		With the decline of the big bands and the rise of bebop there arose a new form of dance music geared to the fl audience called rhythm and blues.
		Players such as Big Jay McNeely and Paul “Hucklebuck” Williams are the basic minimalists, the literal honkers and screamers.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=13784 (645 words)

	Various Artists: Savoy Blues 'N' Boogie - PopMatters Music Review
		Big Jay was born on 110th Street in Watts, California, which was near enough to actually see the tops of the Watts Towers over the low slung one-storey rooftops.
		McNeely went to school with and lived in the same neighborhood as people like Charles Mingus, Sonny Criss, and the Woodman brothers.
		McNeely's renown spread out of South Central into bigger clubs and ballrooms then out into greater Los Angeles, where the city fathers, as the legend goes, eventually passed an ordinance banning his performances anywhere within the city limits.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/various/various-savoybluesnboogie.shtml (1120 words)

	big jay mcneely
		For Big Jay, the path to RandB stardom had already started in the forties.
		Big Jay was at the top of the RandB charts with his title 'Deacon's Hop' and together with an unbelievable stage show, by far the wildest around, he became the leader of the wild 'honkers'!
		In 1981 Big Jay made his come-back to the music-scene and everybody who sees Big Jay today, will find it hard to believe that this man is nearly 70 years old!
	www.esdonk.nl /jazz/bigjay_mcneely.htm (227 words)

	The Slovak Spectator - Slovakia's English Language Newspaper
		Big Jay is part of a generation of legendary rock and rollers who, like Jerry Lee Lewis, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, James Brown, and others now well into their golden years, established their reputations by outrageous stage antics and relentless, sweat-drenched energy.
		Big Jay at the height of his headlong career played flat on his back or while bumping and grinding among frantic audiences in packed sizzling nightclubs.
		As that list suggests, Big Jay is no stranger to jazz, having initially tried to carve a niche for himself in that genre, but giving up the attempt after abandoning himself to the sweat-intensive apotheosis of his R&B roadshows.
	www.slovakspectator.sk /clanok.asp?cl=8265 (650 words)

	Big Jay McNeely - Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born Cecil James McNeely in 1927, Los Angeles tenor saxophonist Big Jay McNeely is one of the pioneers of the wild, honking style of sax playing that emerged from dance halls during the late 1940's.
		Big Jay was raised there by a musical family--two older brothers and both parents were so inclined.
		Big Jay McNeely was in supreme form; Bo Diddley was a charmer Saturday, June 24, 2000
	home.earthlink.net /~spookypie/bigjay.html (1033 words)

	McNEELY, Big Jay : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		(b Cecil McNeely, 29 April '28, LA CA) Tenor sax, bandleader.
		Legendary showman in R&B, playing a coarse, exciting horn while rocking on the floor on his back, etc had an infl.
		Later worked for the post office, but could draw crowds in LA clubs anytime.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/m/M67.HTM (96 words)

	The Doo-Wop Society of Southern California: Big Jay McNeely
		Big Jay (left) and brother Bob McNeely (on baritone) rock a Pittsburgh club in 1955 or '56.
		Big Jay retired from full-time music for 20 years, but in 1983 he returned to performing and hasn't looked back.
		Big Jay is also the subject of Jim Dawson's Nervous Man Nervous: Big Jay McNeely & the Rise of the Honking Tenor Saxophone (Big Nickel Press, 1995), the only book ever written about the R&B sax and its influences.
	www.electricearl.com /dws/bigjay.html (719 words)

	LA Weekly: Music Feature: Nervous Man Nervous
		Known during his 19491955 peak as "The Go Go Go Man," "The Deacon of Tenor Sax," "King of the Honkers," "Pied Piper," even "Big Jay McSquealy," he found his mutinous brand of R&B derided by jazz critics as freakish, the work of a deranged exhibitionist, but his audience response was unprecedented.
		The exotic sway McNeely held over a crowd was so notorious that his managers once circulated a tale that he'd been hauled before a psychiatric board of examination.
		Big Jay became too hot to handle where other headliners were concerned, as well.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/00/11/music-whiteside.php (2062 words)

	Sax Gordon - Photo Gallery - On Stage
		I had the pleasure of presenting Big Jay McNeely with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Boston's Blues Trust Foundation at this show.
		I've been fortunate to be able to see Jay over the years but this time I got to open the show and play behind him.
		Big Jay's always fun to be around and a great inspiration to me. Dig that fluorescent sax!
	www.saxgordon.com /photo_gallery/on_stage.htm (761 words)

	BIG FOUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Let the Big Four take you on a trip through the Forties and Fifties - with their instrumentals, vocals, swing, rock'n'roll, standards and blues in the spirit of those by gone days.
		The musicians who now form The Big Four have played successfully over the years with such well-known bands and musicians as Al Copley, Big Jay McNeely and Otis Grand.
		The Big Four took the audience through the Forties and Fifties, in the tradition of saxophonists like Illinois Jacquet and Willis Jackson...
	www.genuinemusic.nl /bigfoureng.htm (171 words)

	Here comes the master blaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Big Jay McNeely Show can be seen on Thursday, June 6, at the Old Lion Hotel, Adelaide; Friday, June 7, at the Birkenhead Point Tavern, Sydney; Saturday, June 8, at the Gold Coast Jazz and Blues Festival, Surfers Paradise; Sunday, June 9, at the Paddington
		Big Jay is one of a wave of honking, shouting tenor sax players who bridged the gap between big band swing, blues and early rock 'n' roll in the '40s and '50s by forming small tenor sax-led groups.
		The Big Jay McNeely Show is visual as much as musical -- for a start the glow-in-the-dark orange and lime green sax make little impact on the recording.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1991/15/15p21.htm (659 words)

	Jesse Scinto and Big Jay McNeely CD Review
		Jesse Scinto (pronounced Shin-toe) and Big Jay McNeely are representatives of the young turks and old guard of the tenor saxophone.
		On one side you have Rhythm & Blues Hall of Famer, Big Jay McNeely, the man who put the HONK in honking sax and a major player in the rise of early rock n' roll.
		In 2003, Jesse Scinto and Big Jay McNeely will release The Clutch, a new CD jam packed with honking R+B sax by both the young turk and the old guard.
	www.mnblues.com /cdreview/2003/jessescinto-clutch-dp.html (624 words)

	Big Jay McNeely, Central Avenue Confidential; Steve James, Boom Chang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Recently, AandE presented a biography of Sam Phillips, the owner-operator of Sun Records which was probably the most important independent record label in the world for a while.
		Independent labels almost vanished in the '70s and '80s but are returning again in the new millennium as e-commerce and the limitations of big business to really understand "music" have provided new opportunities for smaller, more focused entrepreneurs.
		Big Jay McNeely had a hit record in 1949 with "Deacon's Hop" and another one ten years later, when "There Is Something On Your Mind" went to the top of the rhythm and blues charts.
	www.greenmanreview.com /rawblues.html (696 words)

	Illinois Jacquet, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		One of the great tenors, Illinois Jacquet's 1942 "Flying Home" solo is considered the first R&B sax solo, and spawned a full generation of younger tenors (including Joe Houston and Big Jay McNeely) who built their careers from his style, and practically from that one song.
		He was the star of Lionel Hampton's 1942 big band ("Flying Home" became a signature song for Jacquet, Hampton, and even Illinois Jacquet' successor Arnett Cobb), and also was with Cab Calloway (1943-1944) and well featured with Count Basie (1945-1946).
		In the 1960s, he sometimes doubled on bassoon (usually for a slow number such as "'Round Midnight") and it was an effective contrast to his stomping tenor.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10568/10568604.html (385 words)

	R&B, Soul, Doo-Wop - The Mad Lads -> Big Jay McNeely (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This should be a popular release, a CD version of a vintage 1957 Big Jay show recorded on a 2 track Ampex (don't worry, it sounds fine) at Seattle's Birdland Club.
		The discovery of this tape in 1988 was, for RandB fans, tantamount to the unearthing of King Tut's tomb.
		Jay's tenor and band will literally tear your socks off on these rockin' mid-fifties instrumentals, great for parties and not bad at home either.
	www.rootsandrhythm.com /roots/RANDB-DOOWOP/randb_m1.htm (2307 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On Swing Party!, Music Club mines the catalog of Swing Time Records, an LA based label that, through the brilliance of Jack Lauderdale, acquired rights in the 1950s to a long list of titles by some of the top names in the jump blues arena.
		Among those on hand for this recorded soiree are Big Jay McNeely, Johnny Otis, Charles Brown, Floyd Dixon and Jimmy Witherspoon.
		There are other names, some just as renowned and some just rediscovered, among the 15 tracks assembled for this collection, but the common thread is the up tempo, high spirited party time spirit that each cut reveals.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-august99/reviews/review_va_swing_party.html (219 words)

	R&B, Jazz, and Questions of Standards and Taste
		A lot of big band members who had been the victims of downsizing had to find work in the world of pop or the orchestras of broadcast networks or movie studios.
		Many big names in jazz left their marks on rhythm and blues.
		Lester Young played the second tenor sax on Big Jay McNeely’s “Deacon’s Hop.” Dinah Washington could easily maneuver between jazz and r&b in her material choice and delivery.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/r&b_history/76648 (482 words)

	Skip Heller-News & Events
		This is Big Jay's bravest outing to date, with SH on guitar, Howard Greene on drums, and Red Young on organ (plus a little horn section -- Jay Work on reeds, Skip Waring on trumpet).
		Big Jay's ability to bluesify anything will shock you, and the session has a warm, cozy feel all around.
		This disc will serve as a summation of Big Jay's career, past, present, and even future.
	www.tt.net /ultramodern/skip/new.html (436 words)

	big nickel publications
		Big Jay McNeely and the Rise of the Honking Tenor Sax
		A comprehensive index enables readers to locate specific mentions of record artists, disk jockeys, and talent managers, as well as music companies, nightclubs, theatres, and radio stations which helped promote RandB into the American cultural mainstream.
		The 1955 volume covers a pivotal year in the development of RandB and rock and roll, including a November 26 story headlined “Presley signs with RCA Victor”.
	www.versechorus.com /bignickel.html (522 words)

	LouieLouie.net
		One artist that received first class treatment on this collection was Richard's old friend, Big Jay McNeely, the piped piper of the saxophone.
		Big Jay will actually be performing at a very special show in Long Beach, California on Saturday, March 4th, sponsored by the Doo Wop Society of Southern California.
		The Kingsmen have finally launched their domain-based webpages, with big thanks to Millie Besey and the staff of the Kingsmen Fan Club.
	www.louielouie.net /lou_news_2000_1.htm (2186 words)

	CD Baby: THE HOLLYWOOD COMBO: the Hollywood Combo - from allrecordlabels
		Big Jay and the HWC will be at the post-party of the big Rockin' 50's fest in Green Bay this year also.
		Featuring special guests- R&B hall of famer Sax legend Big Jay McNeely, seminal LA RocknRoll DJ Hunter Hancock, the great Carl Sonny Leyland, and a special appearance by Vocal group the Lonely Blue Boys.
		I wasn't around when Hunter Hancock was spinning Big Jay McNeely platters on Los Angeles radio, but I swear, this has to be what it was like.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/hollywoodcombo/from/allrecordlabels (541 words)

	Big Nickel
		Since 1986, Big Nickel Publications has published a series of acclaimed books and musical references dealing with 1950s Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll, which have been of interest to record collectors worldwide.
		A comprehensive index enables readers to locate specific mentions of record artists, disk jockeys and talent managers in the R&B field, as well as historic venues including nightclubs, theatres and radio stations who helped promote this historically important music form into the American cultural mainstream.
		These annual compilations of the major events, news stories, feature columns and record releases in the Rhythm & Blues field are essential resources for the music fan.
	www.bluesworld.com /BigNickle.html (642 words)

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