Jul 29, 2012
Crowd goes absolutely crazy for a saxophone solo, 1953
OK, maybe not the whole crowd, but definitely those three guys up front…
From Bob Willoughby…
Big Jay McNeely driving the crowd at the Olympic Auditorium into a frenzy, 1953
(via Reddit)
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Reminds me of some of the wild bop scenes from “On the Road”
The tenorman jumped down from the platform and stood in the crowd, blowing around; his hat was over his eyes; somebody pushed it back for him. He just hauled back and stamped his foot and blew down a hoarse, laughing blast, and drew breath, and raised the horn and blew high, wide, and screaming in the air. ….. and finally the tenorman decided to blow his top and crouched down and held a note in high C for a long time as everything else crashed along and the cries increased and I thought the cops would come swarming from the nearest precinct….
everything came out of the horn, no more phrases, just cries, cries, “Baugh” and down to “Beep!” and up to “EEEEE!” and down to clinkers and over to sideways-echoing horn-sounds. He tried everything, up, down, sideways, upside down, horizontal, thirty degrees, forty degrees, and finally he fell back in somebody’s arms and gave up and everybody pushed around and yelled, “Yes! Yes! He blowed that one!”
That smooth sax. It’ll get you every time. B)
Is that Jim Carrey on the left?
That’s a common Mittperception, azog.
Lol, Yes! That’s Jim Carrey, Nicholas Cage and Jack Black.