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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 ( Memphis, Tennessee, 12 de noviembre de 1944) es un compositor, multiintrumentalista, letrista, productor y arreglista estadounidense, mejor conocido por ser el fundador y líder del grupo estadounidense Booker T. & the M.G.'s, popular a inicios de los años sesenta.
Cuando mencionamos tecladistas que han influenciado la escena del Blues, del Soul y del Rock es imprescindible hablar de Booker T. Jones, un músico fuera de serie, especializado en el órgano Hammond. Reconocido por ser lider y compositor de su grupo Booker T.
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.
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.
5 de ago. de 2011 · Booker T. Jones, leader of the celebrated 1960s soul group Booker T. & the MG’s, went nearly three decades without a solo record. Now, he’s delivered two in the last three years.
17 de oct. de 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...
