Booker T. Jones

Booker T Jones, the veteran living legend, laid down two different sets which encompassed their whole, unrivaled, musical career of 50-year for the enraptured jazz fiesta audience. From remembering the tunes he initial played as the age of 17-year-old, like Green Onions, to those from their current recording renaissance, he showed the similar kind of succinct, modest style on their organ B3 Hammond, in their guitar and vocals playing.

69-year-old performed more than anyone to counterfeit the sound of Memphis that creates Stax one of the greatest-selling soul labels of record of all-time.

But their following career as the arranger, session player and producer, provided them a music goldmine into that he delved more than a few times at the packed Band on the Wall to plug in all around the The MGs and Booker T classics.

Places of interest came in unforeseen methods. Their favorite moment was their version of great classic ballad of Leon Russell, Song For You that he started in spare fashion with only their soft vocals over the keyboards.

By the particular time their band kicked in he would already laid out the controlling emotional core of the song.

Their recurrent reminiscences could have sounded same as the name-dropping had it been somebody else. But this was Bob Dylan, for example, who had arrive to them in Malibu to check out songs for the movie Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett.

They have never been a great fan of its centerpiece tune. Economical style of Booker T was well-answered by Vernon 'Ice' Black guitarist who refreshed lots of the numbers with their , jazz-infused, spiky lines, mainly in the flow and ebb of one of the swansongs of MG, Melting Pot.