- Member of The Mar-Keys, who had a #1 hit single, "Last Night", in the early '60s.
- Ex-brother-in-law of Rita Coolidge.
- Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.s) in 1992.
- M.G. stands for Memphis Group.
- Booker T. and the MGs were voted the 93rd Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone.
- Studied music at Indiana University.
- Ex-stepfather of Paul Satterfield.
- While hanging around the Satellite Record Shop run by Estelle Axton, co-owner of Satellite Records with her brother Jim Stewart, Jones met record clerk Steve Cropper, who would become one of the MGs when the group formed in 1962. Besides Jones on organ and Cropper on guitar, Booker T. and the MGs featured Lewie Steinberg on bass guitar and Al Jackson Jr. on drums (Donald "Duck" Dunn eventually replacing Steinberg on bass). While still in high school, Jones co-wrote the group's classic instrumental "Green Onions", which was a massive hit in 1962.
- Jones was featured on organ for singer Kelly Hogan on Hogan's 2013 release on Anti-Records, I Like to Keep Myself in Pain.
- On September 1, 2017, Jones performed live at the Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms with Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra in a tribute concert honoring the 50th anniversary of Stax Records alongside Steve Cropper, Sam Moore, William Bell and British artists Beverley Knight, Ruby Turner, James Morrison and Tom Jones.
- On October 29, 2019, his memoir Time Is Tight: My Life, Note by Note was released.
- He has worked in the studios with many well-known artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, earning him a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement.
- Jones attended Booker T. Washington High School, the alma mater of Rufus Thomas, and contributed 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 singer/songwriter Maurice White.
- Jones received an honorary doctorate degree from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music at its 2012 undergraduate commencement.
- Jones was musically a child prodigy, playing the oboe, saxophone, trombone, double bass, and piano at school and organ at church.
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