Big Jay McNeely

Cecil James "Big Jay" McNeely (April 29, 1927 – September 16, 2018)|title=Biography by Bill Dahl |publisher=Allmusic.com |accessdate=December 21, 2009}} was an American R&B saxophonist.
Inspired by Illinois Jacquet and Lester Young, McNeely teamed with his older brother Robert McNeely, who played baritone saxophone, and made his first recordings with drummer Johnny Otis, who ran the Barrelhouse Club that stood only a few blocks from McNeely's home. Shortly after he performed on Otis's "Barrel House Stomp." Ralph Bass, A&R... meer