Booker T. Jones

Booker T. Jones (born November 12, 1944) is an American multi-instrumentalist, 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.

Early life and career

Booker T. Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on November 12, 1944. He was named after his father, Booker T. Jones, Sr., who was named in honor of Booker T. Washington, the educator. Booker T. Jones, Sr. was a science teacher at the school, providing the family with a relatively stable, lower middle-class milieu.

Jones was a prodigy, playing the oboe, saxophone, trombone, bass, and piano at school and organ at church. He attended Booker T. Washington High School, the alma mater of Rufus Thomas, and shared the hallowed halls with future stars like Isaac Hayes's writing partner David Porter, saxophonist Andrew Love of the Memphis Horns, soul singer/songwriter William Bell, and Earth, Wind, & Fire's Maurice White.

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T Jones (rugby league)

T. Jones (Australia) was a rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL).

Jones played with Eastern Suburbs in the 1915 season.

References

The Eastern Suburbs website

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Booker T

Booker T may refer to

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), Mexican American political leader at the turn of the 20th century

Booker T (wrestler), ring name of American professional wrestler Booker Huffman (born 1965)

Booker T. Jones (born 1944), American musician and frontman of Booker T. and the M.G.'s

Booker T. Laury (1914–1995), American boogie-woogie and blues pianist

Booker T. Washington White (1909–1977), American Delta blues guitarist and singer known as Bukka White

Booker T. Washington Public Charter School, a 501c3 non-profit high school chartered by the District of Columbia Public Schools

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Booker T (wrestler)

Booker Huffman Jr. (born March 1, 1965), better known by his ring name Booker T, is an American professional wrestler, promoter, and color commentator who is currently signed with WWE as part of the pre-show team on Raw. He is also the owner and founder of the independent promotion Reality of Wrestling (ROW) in his hometown of Houston, Texas.

Booker is best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E), and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), holding 35 championships between those organizations. He is the most decorated wrestler in WCW history, having held 21 titles including a record six WCW World Television Championships, and a record eleven WCW World Tag Team Championships: ten as one half of Harlem Heat with his brother, Lash "Stevie Ray" Huffman in WCW, and one in the WWF with Test.

Booker is a six-time world champion, having won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship five times (four times in WCW, and once in the WWF) and WWE's World Heavyweight Championship once. He is the first non-mixed race African American to become a world champion in WWE, and was voted the greatest World Heavyweight Champion of all time in a 2013 WWE viewer poll. Booker has also gained notable success as a tag team wrestler, being a 15-time world tag team champion between WCW (11 times), WWF/E (three times), and TNA (once). Additionally, he was the winner of the King of the Ring tournament in 2006, the sixteenth Triple Crown Champion and the ninth Grand Slam Champion in WWE history. As the ninth (and final) Triple Crown Champion in WCW history, Booker is one of four men in history to achieve both the WWE and WCW Triple Crowns.