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	James Booker
		James Carroll Booker III was born in New Orleans on December 17, 1939.
		Booker's father died in 1953 and he was returned to New Orleans along with his sister to live with their mother.
		Booker had somehow conned the producers into paying for their services three times and was pushing his luck with a fourth attempt.
	www.cascadeblues.org /History/JamesBooker.htm (2167 words)

	James Booker at All About Jazz
		James Carroll Booker III was born in New Orleans on December 17, 1939, son of a minister, who played piano.
		James Booker would finally come into his own by the mid â70âs and began the recordings for which he is primarily known and judged by.
		James Booker died in New Orleans, on November 8, 1983, at Charity Hospital, where he was born.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/musician.php?id=5177 (1088 words)

	Bucher/Booker Chapter IX-part 1
		James, age 20 to 30 with his wife age 20 to 30, is listed with his first three daughters, two under the age of five and one between the ages of five and ten.
		Booker was born in Crawford county and reared in the vicinity of Decatur.
		Booker was born in Decatur February 2, 1850 in a house on the present sight of the Lincoln Square theatre.
	home.centurytel.net /frdmyrdu/Booker/chap_9-1.htm (8896 words)

	DJM Records- James Booker
		Booker was an incredible human being and the stories floating around about him and his sometimes bizarre behavior don't take one iota away from his reputation as the most brilliantly creative and innovative pianist on Planet Earth.
		James Booker should only be remembered for his contributions and victories in life, and he has many.
		Booker quickly became part of the tour group and a great time was had by all.
	www.djmrec.com /booker/reviews.html (998 words)

	BOOKER'S MAD MUSE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Booker was playing a blues, I can't recall which one, maybe "Black Night." With a left hand like a piston with a heart and brain in each finger, Booker more or less hypnotized me. His right hand, fanning runs that didn't seem humanly possible, engendered a feeling I'd never experienced.
		Booker also sang, and while his voice was nowhere near the natural instrument his pianism was, he forged it into a powerful expression of his feelings.
		James Booker had the ability to be a virtuoso concert pianist or a jazz master, but he never strayed too far from the blues, the great mean of New Orleans.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/23/PKGGGI6B3S1.DTL&hw=booker&sn=001&sc=1000 (1853 words)

	James Booker
		James Booker blues musician including his famous songs and records.
		James Booker blues jazz pianist was named Little Booker and the Piano Prince of New Orleans.
		Booker is famous for his blues and piano music.
	www.absolutefact.com /James_Booker.html (72 words)

	James Booker - listen to free MP3 song download & watch music videos - MOG
		James Carroll Booker III (December 17, 1939 - November 8, 1983) was an eccentric and flamboyant piano player and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
		James Booker was the son and grandson of Baptist preachers.
		A small package of value appeared on my doorstep last night, containing one copy of James Booker’s unreservedly funky “Lost Paramount Tapes.” Recorded in ‘73 and unreleased for many years, this is a heaping helping of gumbo with extra Crystal (the hot sauce, not the drug….).
	mog.com /music/James_Booker (803 words)

	Amazon.com: Classified: Music: James Booker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah ~ James Booker
		Recording in late 1982, Booker is joined on five of the dozen tracks by bassist James Singleton and drummer John Vidacovich, with local legend Red Tyler lending tenor saxophone to four.
		James Booker died three weeks later, and I never had the opportunity to go back and pay him, or to thank him for his kindness.
	www.amazon.com /Classified-James-Booker/dp/B0000002VU (746 words)

	NPR : James Booker: Making the Insipid Sublime
		Booker (1939-1983) studied classical music as a boy, and of all the great New Orleans pianists — including the better-known Professor Longhair — he was the most technically agile.
		Booker is a drug, and ya gotta stay for the whole trip.
		Booker's incredible ability to weave disparate strands of music with his improvisational abilities made him not only unique, but fairly inaccessible to those without a certain sense of the absurd.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6877669 (888 words)

	Amazon.ca: New Orleans Piano Wizard Live: Music: James Booker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Booker is an outstanding pianist and his singing is both touching and powerful.
		Booker's voice is deep and stirring and his piano is astonishingly free and funky.
		Booker was a musical originator, but also famous for his ability to impersonate a wide variety of players.
	www.amazon.ca /New-Orleans-Piano-Wizard-Live/dp/B0000002VF (534 words)

	James Booker at Montreux on DVD Petition
		We would like to see James Bookers 1978 performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival released on DVD.
		At present there is no video available of Booker at all and the owners of this footage should not leave it locked in their vaults.
		The James Booker at Montreux on DVD Petition to Montreux Sounds / Eagle Vision was created by and written by Andre Rosso (andre.rosso@btopenworld.com).
	www.petitiononline.com /Booker/petition.html (110 words)

	Cory Booker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Booker ran again in 2006 and won a sweeping victory against Ronald Rice to become the 36th mayor of Newark.
		Booker is a graduate of Stanford, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and Yale Law School.
		Booker's $697.1 million budget calls for an 8.3% increase in the city's property tax, which if passed would be one of the largest property tax increases in the city's history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cory_Booker (1902 words)

	James Booker cds, vinyl records and music albums
		James Booker cds and James Booker records can be found on the label DJM Records.
		James Booker's unrelenting piano style made him an important figure in New Orleans music, acting as a major influence on Harry Connick Jr.
		Booker was a balanced and versatile pianist and organist -- his repetitive right hand sparkles complemented his awe-inspiring left hand's foundation.
	www.musicstack.com /search/james+booker (467 words)

	The John and James Booker Civil War Letters
		John and James were born to John Booker (1797-1859) and Nancy Blair Reynolds Booker (1796-1859) on October 10, 1840, and both enlisted in the Confederate Army on May 24, 1861, at Whitmell, Virginia, in Company D 38
		The Bookers worry over their health and that of their comrades; they enjoy the plenty and lament the lack of food and supplies; report on the interactions between civilians and soldiers; and describe religious revivals held at the camp.
		As the war goes on, John fumes against officers, politicians, and the wealthy for evading their responsibilities and mistreating the common soldier, while James grows more fatalistic and religious, trusting that his suffering is God's will.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /civilwar/booker (538 words)

	offBeat
		The reason Booker's music looked strange on paper and felt strange under the fingers was that no blues-oriented pianist before him had achieved his level of efficiency in getting as much sound out of the piano as possible; it was like playing Liszt and Professor Longhair at the same time.
		That Booker's music hasn't become part of the standard piano repertoire is, in my opinion, a crime; students of any variety of jazz or classical music could learn volumes from his arrangement of "Sunny Side of the Street" alone.
		Note-for-note transcriptions of several Booker performances -- painstakingly pounded out by Tom McDermott, Canadian Booker fanatic Andrew Fielding, and myself -- are scheduled for publication by Hal Leonard this year, in a collection tentatively titled New Orleans Piano Legends (which will also feature the music of Fess, Dr. John, Henry Butler, and others).
	www.offbeat.com /artman/publish/article_571.shtml (750 words)

	JAMES BOOKER! Incredibly rare signed LP jacket for "Classified!" Signed in the year of his death.
		James Booker's stature as the greatest R&B pianist of all time came too late, while he was alive no one paid much attention to him and he was regarded as an able but eccentric studio side man.
		Since his death, many "lost" recordings of Booker's solo work have surfaced displaying his surreal ability on the piano and organ, combining jazz classical and blues simultaneoulsly at times and seeming to be playing with a third (and sometimes fourth!) hand on many of these incredible recordings.
		Unfortunately, autographs of Booker are quite rare since he wasn't generally considered a star while he was alive and not many people thought to ask for his autograph.
	www.thejukejoint.com /jamesbooker.html (483 words)

	The John and James Booker Civil War Letters
		John and James were born to John Booker (1797-1859) and Nancy Blair Reynolds Booker (1796-1859) on October 10, 1840, and both enlisted in the Confederate Army on May 24, 1861, at Whitmell, Virginia, in Company D 38
		The Bookers worry over their health and that of their comrades; they enjoy the plenty and lament the lack of food and supplies; report on the interactions between civilians and soldiers; and describe religious revivals held at the camp.
		As the war goes on, John fumes against officers, politicians, and the wealthy for evading their responsibilities and mistreating the common soldier, while James grows more fatalistic and religious, trusting that his suffering is God's will.
	etext.virginia.edu /civilwar/booker (538 words)

	Letters
		I met Booker through dr. john, who told me Booker was the real thing, to go down and check him out.
		Booker died then, much like he had lived, no one seemed to notice him, or maybe it was just that it would have been unbearable for him to have been noticed too much.
		James Booker's music is music that changes the lives of everyone that heard and still hears it.
	www.rickieleejones.com /friends/booker.htm (738 words)

	Long day of campaigning is over as James, Booker await the will of the people (Site not responding. Last check: )
		James and Sharpton are driving through the South Ward, which is regarded as key part of the city for James, with Sharpton delivering a message via James' campaign van loudspeaker: "Come out and vote for the real deal -- this is the Rev.
		James said he was "happy that the Lord has given us a day without rain," as he walked into the sun shortly after 7:20.
		James stressed that he believed the most important issue of the day was "voter participation." Asked by a reporter if this was a "cleanly run campaign," James smiled and laughed, saying he'd address that issue at a later date.
	politicsnj.com /murphy051402_newarkelectionday.htm (3066 words)

	James Booker Bio
		It was beautiful and intense, dark and light, focused and crazed, always technically and creatively the work of genius.
		James Booker's music is music that changes the lives of everyone who heard and still hears it.
		And now the entire catalog of Booker's music is available from the Don Williams Music Group.
	www.nathanielturner.com /jamesbookerbio.htm (304 words)

	eBay - james booker, Records, CDs items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		JAMES BOOKER King Of the New Orleans Keyboard Vol 1 LP
		James Booker - Junco Partner - Island LP 1976.
		James Brown Booker T. and the Mg's Poster T And MGs
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=james+booker&newu=1&krd=1 (309 words)

	James Booker - Pandora Internet Radio
		Certainly one of the most flamboyant New Orleans pianists in recent memory, James Carroll Booker III was a major influence on the local rhythm and blues scene in the '50s and '60s.
		Booker's left hand was simply phenomenal, often a problem for bass players who found themselves running for cover in an attempt to stay out of the way; with it he successfully amalgamated the jazz and rhythm and blues idioms of New Orleans, adding more than a touch of gospel thrown in for good measure.
		Despite his personal eccentricities, Booker had the respect of New Orleans'; best musicians, and elements of his influence are still very much apparent in the playing of pianists like Henry Butler and Harry Connick, Jr.
	www.pandora.com /music/artist/84ee2ab8e87ffbc7 (428 words)

	CD Baby: JAMES BOOKER: The Lost Paramount Tapes
		He was taught by my grandfather, James Carroll Booker I. All the men in my family have been piano players.
		I'm James Carroll Booker III, and I was the cream of the crop !
		Booker was clearly a piano virtuoso in his distinctive New Orleans style.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/jamesbooker (417 words)

	Artist page for James Booker - Wal-mart (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As an exceptionally talented child, Booker studied classical piano, but balanced his virtuosity with blues and boogie learned from Isidore "Tuts" Washington and Edward Frank.
		In his early teens he appeared on radio WMRY and formed a band he called Booker Boy And The Rhythmaires.
		Booker made just two more singles during the 50s, "Heavenly Angel" for Chess and "Open The Door" for Ace.
	www.walmart.com /cdstore/ArtistInfo.do?artistId=29551 (311 words)

	Booker T. Washington National Monument - Booker T Washington National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
		On April 5, 1856, Booker T. Washington was born a slave on the 207-arce farm of James Burroughs.
		In 1861, Booker T. Washington was one of the 4,000,000 enslaved people in the 'Land of the Free.' Come learn about Washington's nine-year experience.
		Booker T. Washington was born a slave on the farm of James and Elizabeth Burroughs on April 5, 1856.
	www.nps.gov /bowa (285 words)

	YouTube - james booker
		I agree with ladyvxn, James Booker was leaps and bounds beyond Fess, Tuts or Toussaint.
		I think he was, without question, the greatest New Orleans pianist or, better yet, the greatest pianists in the world.
		I been a James Booker fan for lo over 20 years.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=uWSim3iTtbc (453 words)

	Aquarium Drunkard - Music & MP3 Blog » James Booker :: Live @ Montreux July 1978
		I have several live albums from this New Orleans piano master, and this one is by far the best.
		If you are unfamiliar with James Booker and/or traditional New Orleans piano-based music, this set - and a Professor Longhair collection - are a fine introduction.
		The video below of Booker performing “Papa Was A Rascal” is taken either from a French television performance from the same year — presumably from the same tour — or from the Montreux session itself.
	aquariumdrunkard.com /?p=28 (298 words)

	George Winston - Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions \| Recordings
		James Booker was the first one to take RandB, Soul music, Blues, New Orleans music and the Professor Longhair and Ray Charles influences, and make a whole solo piano style from all these traditions and more, which encompassed seven different ways of playing.
		James Booker is the pianist who has influenced my overall piano playing the most, and when arranging pieces to interpret I usually involuntarily think of playing the piano in terms of several of his piano languages.
		Inspired by the late New Orleans pianist James Booker.
	www.georgewinston.com /notes/08022-675165-2.php (690 words)

	Document Records - Vintage Blues and Jazz
		Size of file 59.9 MB To learn more about the Edison Collection
		This CD captures a magical moment in time during Booker's career.
		His energy, wit, intelligence and remarkable talent are demonstrated here during a vibrant and fascinating performance made during his 1977 European tour.
	www.document-records.com (1119 words)

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