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Booker T. Jones, Sr. was a science teacher at Memphis High School, providing the family with a relatively stable, lower middle-class lifestyle. [3] Jones was musically a child prodigy, playing the oboe, saxophone, trombone, double bass, and piano at school and organ at church.
Booker T. Jones (* 12. November 1944 in Memphis , Tennessee ) ist ein US-amerikanischer Songwriter , Produzent und Multiinstrumentalist . Er wurde als Frontmann der Band Booker T. & the M.G.’s bekannt.
The Road from Memphis is the ninth studio album by Booker T. Jones, released in May 2011 through the record label ANTI. On the album, Booker T. is backed by hip–hop band the Roots. The album reached a peak position of number 85 on the Billboard 200 and received a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album.
There never was any doubt who would be the first all-instrumental band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: That honor had to—and did, in 1992—go to Booker T. and the MG’s, the Memphis-based quartet featuring Booker T. Jones on organ, Steve Cropper on guitar, Donald “Duck” Dunn on bass and Al Jackson Jr. playing the drums.
17. Okt. 2019 · No living musician is more closely associated than Booker T. Jones with Memphis, the Mississippi River city that fostered a world-changing generation of blues, gospel and soul music five...
26. Juni 2017 · Als Mitbegründer des Memphis-Soul-Sounds veröffentlichte Booker T. Jones mit seinen M.G.'s in den 60ern instrumentale Funk-Kracher. Bei Otis Reddings «(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay»...
25. Dez. 2023 · Booker T. Jones — master of the Hammond B3 organ — is a producer, composer, arranger and Grammy-Award-winning artist who plays multiple instruments. For many years, his...
