John Jones Music

The great English recording engineer, mixer, producer, studio manager, designer and builder, Bill Price, has passed away after a long illness. Bill was AIR Studio, Oxford Street’s, chief engineer, from their opening in 1970, until he took over at Wessex Studio, in 1976. He began his career at Decca in the mid 1960’s. Bill, recorded, mixed, and or produced, many of my favorite […]

Dee Long and I began building the new Fairlight/Midi room at AIR Studios in 1985, with Malcolm Atkin, Dave Harries, John Goldstraw and Henk. The technical department were soon busy with Rupert Neve, adding 16 channel’s of his Focusrite 101 strips to the Neve A8971 custom console that he had made in 1981 for Studio […]

The second release in the series is: Songs of 1993, Vol. 2 – Written and recorded  in chronological order by me and my machines, between March 1 and June 11, 1993, in the Hammerwood, East Sussex, U.K., studio that Dee Long and I put together. The song Someday, has overdubs from Steve Ferrone and Richard Martinez, and was mixed […]

I’m biting the bullet hard and releasing many songs that I wrote and recorded between 1975 and 2016. Most of these songs have not been available for sale, nor even heard, by more than a few friends. The first release in the series is: Songs of 1993, Vol. 1 – Written and recorded in chronological order by me and my machines, […]

Sir George Martin in Studio 5, AIR StudiosThis week we lost my 5th Father and friend, Sir George Martin, who passed away at his home in England on March 8th. Sir George was 90. My heart goes out to Judy, Giles, Lucy, and Shirley, and to all of his friends and colleagues whose lives he enriched. […]

One of the first projects that Dee Long and I were lucky to work on in Studio 5 at AIR Studios, Oxford Street, was Sir George Martin and Anthony Hopkins’ version of the Dylan Thomas play; Under Milk Wood, “Thomas’ tale of a day in the life of the mythical Welsh seaside town of Llareggub” (buggerall […]

Heredity by Rational Youth – Produced by Dee Long & Tracy Howe, with John Jones, Peter McGee, Karen Hendrix, Ben Mink & others. Recorded and Mixed at ESP Studios, Buttonville, Ontario & AIR Studios, Oxford Street, with Matt Butler & Matt Howe.

I’m not certain, but I think that Terry Draper, Dee Long, Brian Bell, John Bojicic and John Jones (the choir) recorded this demo at Brentcliffe Rehearsal Studios in Don Mills in the late 1970’s. In The Arms of Love, by John Jones. Playing the Yamaha CP 80 and singing.

Da Da will always be one of the great albums of the 1980s to me. I was there, learning every day, when they recorded it in our studio, ESP, in Buttonville. Dick Wagner was a monster guitar player and song writer and producer and a powerful personality. He passed away in 2014 after a very […]

Another year older and wiser! Wishing Sir George all the best this year! Time has continued to reinforce the values that were instilled in Dee Long and I by Sir George and the late John Burgess, Dave Harries, Malcolm Atkin, and all of our clients, friends, and colleagues, during our years at AIR Studios on Oxford Street in […]