{"id":162,"date":"2007-12-06T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=162"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:54:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:54:18","slug":"harlem-week-of-121007-big-jay-mcneely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2007\/12\/06\/harlem-week-of-121007-big-jay-mcneely\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlem: Week Of 12\/10\/07 &#8211; Big Jay McNeely!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;color:#000099;\"><strong>Big Jay McNeely<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusionanomaly.net\/bigjaymcneely1951losangeles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/fusionanomaly.net\/bigjaymcneely1951losangeles.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\">Los Angeles sax &#8220;honkers&#8221; were big in the late 1940s and early &#8217;50s, but no one was bigger than Big Jay McNeely. He established himself in 1949 with the R&B; chart topper, &#8220;Deacon&#8217;s Hop&#8221; and kept the crazed, almost be-bop sax blowing going on strong throughout the 1950s. Hear Big Jay tell his own story to Matt The Cat in an exclusive interview, only on &#8220;Harlem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Harlem Airs On The 50s on 5:<\/u><br \/><\/strong>Monday 12\/10 at 1pm ET<br \/>Tuesday 12\/11 at 9pm PT \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Midnight ET<br \/>Friday 12\/14 at 6pm ET<br \/>Sunday 12\/16 at 11am ET<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Jay McNeely Los Angeles sax &#8220;honkers&#8221; were big in the late 1940s and early &#8217;50s, but no one was bigger than Big Jay McNeely. He established himself in 1949 with the R&#038;B; chart topper, &#8220;Deacon&#8217;s Hop&#8221; and kept the crazed, almost be-bop sax blowing going on strong throughout the 1950s. Hear Big Jay tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harlem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}