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Booker Taliaferro Jones Jr. (born November 12, 1944) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. He has also worked in the studios with many well-known artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, earning him a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
It can be argued that it was Booker T. Jones who set the cast for modern soul music and is largely responsible for its rise and enduring popularity.
Nov 19, 2019 · Jones' name is synonymous with the Hammond B3 organ. At 17, he recorded the instrument's anthem, "Green Onions," with his band Booker T and The MG's. Watch him play the song all alone in the...
May 30, 2024 · The long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music. From Booker T. Jones’s earliest years in segregated Memphis, music was the driving force in his life.
Oct 25, 2019 · Let's return to Terry's 2007 interview with Booker T. Jones, leader of the landmark soul band Booker T & The M.G.'s. He's just published a new memoir titled "Time Is Tight." (SOUNDBITE OF...
Oct 17, 2019 · Booker T. Jones was an architect of the Stax Records sound. But his time in Memphis is only part of his story. Erik Carter for The New York Times. By John Lingan. Oct. 17, 2019. LOS ANGELES —...
May 30, 2019 · Booker T. Jones is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and arranger. Best known as the front man of the band Booker T. & the MGs, he has worked with countless award-winning artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and has earned a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Nov 6, 2019 · Stax soul legend Booker T. Jones discusses his new memoir, which complicates the myth of Stax Records as a racial utopia.
Dec 1, 2019 · NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with musician Booker T. Jones about his life in music and his new memoir, Time is Tight: My Life, Note by Note.
Oct 25, 2019 · Let's return to Terry's 2007 interview with Booker T. Jones, leader of the landmark soul band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. His new memoir titled, "Time Is Tight," has just been published. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST)
