John Jones Music

It’s that time of year again in Los Angeles.

Our Rancho Park Golf Club fundraiser for junior golf in Los Angeles and Southern California comes up on October 24.

Click on George for more info about the 5th annual event.

George Von Elm (1901-1961)

A great time was had by all at the historic Asphaltum Springs on the Rancho La Brea on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles this past weekend.

Within footsteps of LACMA and the Page Museum, the many Brazilians in Los Angeles had a party in Hancock Park.

I hung out with my friend Sergio Mielniczenko, who hosts the Global Village Show on KPFK on Fridays (listen to last Fridays show for a new Meninos do Morumbi track I remixed for Music is Hope Foundation), and  the Brazilian Hour on PRSS on weekends.

Here are some photos of the day, including one of me with Carnaval Muse, Sonaria.

The stage, early on.

Great Brazilian food!

Dancers

John Jones, Sergio Mielniczenko & Consul-General Ambassador José Afredo Graça Lima of the Consolate General of Brazil Los Angeles

JJ and Sonaria, the Carnaval Muse.

John Jones, Dr Gerhard Lengeling, and musician Sujin Nam, with some of Apogee's Tech Awards

With overwhelming joy, I finally got to meet Dr Gerhard Lengeling and Sujin Nam at the the Apogee 25th party in August.

Back in 1989, I was simply empowered, when I first started using Gerhard’s Notator/Creator music software on the Atari ST.

I still have my 1040 ST and Notator and Uniter, all ready to go at a moments notice. You will never ever have a better piece of music software under the Sun than Notator!

Where would I be today with out it?

Thanks Gerhard!

This week started with a bang!

We were over at Steve Postell’s cutting electric guitars for Jimmy McKeever’s new album, when we heard a rash of sirens blasting by Steve’s house in peaceful Santa Monica. I stepped out of the studio to catch one of them flying past, and it had HAZMAT written all over it. We knew it had to be a plane that went down, so off we three went for a look see.

A small plane had crashed into a house just a block from Steve’s, and less than that from Penmar Golf Course. The pilot and the gardners appeared to be okay. The rookie flyer was practicing touch and go landings when he clipped a tree and hit the house about a block from the end of the runway. I hope he goes back there and thanks that tree for breaking his fall!

Why is Clover Field airport still there?

Congratulations to Betty Bennnett for her 25 years of setting a great example for the rest of us!

Betty Bennett

Apogee Electronics is a Certified Women’s Business Enterprise.

Betty co-founded Apogee in 1985.

We first met in Studio 1 at AIR on Oxford Street.
All the best digital recorders had Apogee filters from the beginning of digital’s dominance of the recording world in the late 1980s.

Apogee Electronics sponsors Music is Hope Foundation, and are banner philanthropists.

Here are some photos from the 25th Party last weekend:

Peter Barker of Threshold Studio & John Jones

JJ with Patrick Greppi of Apogee Europe

Jeremy Stappard and JJ

Jadeth of Apogee and Desiree

Bob Clearmountain of Apogee at the helm

Looking out to the studio

Studer Madness!