Photo: courtesy of Big Jay McNeely

Big Jay McNeely made some of the biggest waves on the 1940s R&B scene with his screaming tenor sax

As one of the titans who made tenor sax the solo instrument of choice during rock’s primordial era in the late 1940s, Big Jay McNeely could peel the paper right off the walls with his sheets of squealing, honking horn riffs. “The king of the honkers” has been wailing hard for over seven decades, and he’s still going strong. Continue reading →