Big Jay McNeely and Detroit Gary Wiggins

[picturesleevesclub]

excellent!!!!!!!......

[willpn100]

The great Gene Vincent also recorded this song!!!

[ikezz]

brillant!

[Dmorrowshares]

Anybody know what Tenor he was blowing?

[DoctorHello]

WONDERFUL!! Talent at play!!

[OtisFan1]

FANTASTIC! I'd known Big Jay from just one record, his wonderful blues song, "There's Something on Your Mind" from 1957. (Many artists did excellent covers, such as Etta James and BB King.) Only today did I learn that he's a tenor sax great, and the vocals on "Something" were by Little Sonny Warner. YouTube is such a wonderful creation. Thanks for posting this. Long live this great music.

[andreboogie]

Great bass on this tune, too!

[Divetones]

This is brilliant thanks for posting

[googuse]

Wow - this rocks, even with the spazzy white people clapping on the 1 and 3.

[FuckingPigz]

@googuse

The woman and husband around 5:00 cracks me up madly!

[eimajecnerwal]

@googuse In England us spazzy white people clap on the 2 and 4, The 1 and 4 thing seems to be curiously European, as does clapping with apparantly no concern for the timing of the tune! But as long as they're enjoying it! ;)

[loitalove2009]

i wasnt even born

[bigbossmatt]

what a legend. awesome

[masonman300]

Can anyone share "The Insect Ball"

[diglaf]

Saw Big Jay and Detroit Gerry Wiggins at the Klimperkasten in Aschaffenburg, Germany in 1989...Tore the roof off the place, peeled the paint off the walls. Incredible perfomers!!!

[ipings]

That was great. I was just thinking about the album "honkers and screamers" which I bought 30 years ago and wondered if Big Jay McNeelly would be on youtube! :-)

If anyone likes this music, get that album.

[RonaldVaughan]

On the Oldies show "A Long,Long Time Ago" I

hear another Big Jay McNeely instrumental,

from 1953...That one is called "3-D".

Do you have the stuio recording (or even

live) on of that?

[marcusb71]

This so great!!!! when i have a off day i just watch this and i feel good again!!!!!great tenor playing!!! and so funny those great players screaming and honking at those tables....hahah cant stop smiling

[ordascs]

Blow Jay Blow!

[fijago]

What year is this? I saw Big J at the Powerhouse in Birmingham 1987 complete with his phospurus sax!

[CassioSaxMibCampinas]

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­coooooo !

[StanTheStoic]

He is fucking awesome!!! The audience is so waspy and boring though.

[Ycooprid]

Big Jay is playing on an awesome bill in Hollywood on Sat. March 8, 2008 - with Dale Hawkins! at Safari Sam's.

[saulpinpon]

esta bnpero suena mal

[ninadm2000]

You and Daryl Taylor was swinging for real.

Much Love,

Nina

[MotownDiva]

Detroit International Jazz Festival

[bakabana1966]

i gone see Big Joe next week in Haarlem (The Netherlands) yes Harlem in NYC is called after Haarlem !!

[elvischevy]

thats what i call a sax player / you can beat eggs but you cant beat sax

[patsybaby]

Man ! that kat can still blow !

[patsybaby]

Man ! that kat can still blow !

[misstayva]

Oh wow! Thanks for sharing these Big Jay clips.

[jwjones1]

SIIIIIIIIIIIICKKKKK!!!!!!!

[haleyfan]

Amazing, Astounding, Wonderful, Great!!!! Thank You, Thank You, And Thank You Again. Until This Video Was Posted I Had Been Desperately Searching For Footage Of Big Jay McNeely. I Hope To see Him Live Soon.

-Calvin, A 13 Year Old Blues Enthusiast

[torontotenor]

That was great, the poor other tenor player had to play

basically chords to whole tune, but somehow it worked, if he was getting paid for the number of low Bbs he had

played, he must be a millionaire.

That was cool, Jay threw in "Holiday for Strings in his solo"

[aceneill]

I saw a documentary that had him as one of the featured guys, and it blew my mind what a bad bad man he was, and how nobody I knew had ever really heard of him. You can't tell me this guy isn't worth the price of admission anywhere he shows -- wonder if he has an understudy that will keep it going! Thanks for sharing!

[omegasaxyvideo]

now THAT"S ENTERTAINMENT!!!!

[truck501]

ooooooooooooowwwwwwww baby year lol ha ha ha ha