John Jones Music

Davinci had an interview with the  Full Lotus Kirtan Show on WCOM 103.5FM in Carrboro, NC,  last week.

I joined in, and we had a chat with Blake about A Gift, the record, Yogasma and the almost finished, soon to be released album.

It’s starts at about 1 hour and 10 minutes – 1:10 – Listen to the interview here.

JJ and Davinci

Spotted in Burbank. For sale in front of the shop:

Pulling out the past.

AIR Studios - Studio 5 with artwork in 1989

AIR Studios - Studio 5 and Studio 2's shared booth, in 1989

AIR Studios - Studio 5's Dee Long and John Jones, in 1989

It started out as the tape copy room. By 1986 it was a ‘state of the art’ Fairlight/MIDI studio on the fourth floor of the Burton building in Oxford Circus.

Dee Long at work, with Gerry Stellard, I think

John Jones and Dee Long in Studio 5 at AIR Studios with the Fairlight III.

The pictures are from a Sound Recording Magazine, Japan, July 1987, article about George Martin’s AIR Studios.

Check out Miriam’s Well.

Miriam's Well with Steve Postell at JJSONGSALON at Life on Wilshire

On a busy road in Morumbi, near the cemetery where he was buried, this portrait of Brazil’s fallen Grand Prix hero, Ayrton Senna, smiles at the passing traffic. “I am a Brasilian!”

Street art in Sao Paulo - Senna and John Jones

John Jones visiting Ayrton Senna's grave in Morumbi cemetery, Sao Paulo, Brasil

When I was a wee lad in Jamaica, we went to a fabulous Guy Fawkes day bonfire. It must have been 60 feet high!