Booker T. Jones - Full Concert [HD] | Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 2014

Date & venue; FRIDAY 11 JULY 2014 • CONGO • Rotterdam Ahoy, The Netherlands

LINEUP
Booker T Jones (vocals, guitar, Hammond B3 organ); Vernon Black (guitar); Melvin Brannon (bass); Darian Gray (drums).

ABOUT
Although he is one of the founders of modern soul, Booker T Jones only visited the North Sea Jazz Festival once before. In 1990 the now 69-year-old American entered the stage of the Congresgebouw in The Hague with his legendary instrumental funk band The M.G.’s for a spectacular show with highlights like the worldwide hits Time Is Tight and of course Green Onions. After that time Booker T composed, produced and arranged mostly for other artists like Ray Charles, Neil Young and Willie Nelson, until he stepped into the limelight again with a solo album in 2009. Last year Sound The Alarm was released, the tenth album of the multiple Grammy winner, on which Mayer Hawthorne, Raphael Saadiq, Gary Clark Jr. and Anthony Hamilton collaborated. In Ahoy the multi-instrumentalist Jones will be the center of a steaming funky party, with the aid of bassist Melvin Brannon, drummer Darian Gray and guitarist Vernon Black.

Green Onions
"Green Onions" is an instrumental composition recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Described as "one of the most popular instrumental rock and soul songs ever" and as one of "the most popular R&B instrumentals of its era", it utilizes a twelve-bar blues progression and features a rippling Hammond M3 organ line played by frontman Booker T. Jones, who wrote it when he was 17. However, the actual recording was largely improvised in the studio.

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