"Dedicated, Steve Cropper, and I doubt if I'd be sitting here today in Amoeba if it weren't for this fellow here."Watch this moment
What's In My Bag № 683
Booker T. Jones
Booker Taliaferro Jones Jr. 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 as a session musician with many well-known artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, earning him a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Ep #683 ·
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What Booker T. Jones said · 6 records
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"I consider him to be one of the precursors of rap music... I don't think rap music would be what it is today without Gil Scott-Heron."Watch this moment
"Sebelius was the first one to make me feel the classical music and have a real emotion just by listening to music. His Finlandia was one of the first symphonic pieces I played as a young man, and of course now he's very famous that they named the musical software after him, Sibelius, but very close to my heart."Watch this moment
"I can remember driving down the 405 south in a rainstorm and hearing the piano come on the radio in the early 60s... thinking that this is the most irreverent music I have ever heard on the radio and it was Bob Dylan and the band doing 'Like a Rolling Stone.'"Watch this moment
"Ray Charles In Person is a great album recorded live at a stadium with Leora Cooper on baritone sax and Fathead Newman playing saxophone and just a great great band, great great material."Watch this moment
"Pavarotti, the Italian heartfelt singer with the huge vocal cords and the big lungs and the passion, had a huge influence in my life."Watch this moment
Everything in the bag
13 records · pulled off the shelves at Amoeba Hollywood
Dedicated: A Salute to the 5 Royales
Steve Cropper
2011
The Sermon!
Jimmy Smith
1959
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gil Scott-Heron
1974
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Itzhak Perlman
1985
Sibelius: Finlandia
Berlin Philharmonic & Hans Rosbaud
1996
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
1965
Ray Charles In Person
Ray Charles
1960
Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 – Shchedrin: Piano Concerto No. 2
Marc-André Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Litton
2003
Giant Steps
John Coltrane
1960
Pavarotti - The Greatest Hits
Luciano Pavarotti
1990
King Of The Blues Guitar (Reissue)
Albert King
1969
Blue Train
John Coltrane
1957
Live at the Village Vanguard - The Master Takes
John Coltrane Quartet
1962
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