John Jones Music

Meninos do Morumbi perform in 2007 at the Parque Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo, Brasil

In a brilliant attempt at getting the music out of the box, an afternoon was spent last week with Tommy Vicari at LAFX Studio in North Hollywood, mixing the next Meninos & Friends single for Music is Hope Foundation, through the studio’s beautiful API console, with it’s Neve Flying Faders.

Julian Lennon made time yesterday to go through the songs we are working on for the Meninos Do Morumbi & Friends Project for Music is Hope Foundation. He posted this story on Facebook about the project.

Richard Martinez at Music is Hope Foundation has posted a great summary of our trip to Notre Dame with Meninos Do Morumbi back in October 2012, with photographs and slideshows. Meninos Do Morumbi at the University of Notre Dame 2012 And here is a Video made by Assistant Band Director Sam Sanchez of the University […]

We are all still recovering from a fantastic week in South Bend Indiana as guests of the Fighting Irish Marching Band, Follow the link to the NBC playback of the game and see the start of the Half-Time show at about 1:35 (one hour thirty five minutes). Go to 1:39 to see Flavio Pimenta and Meninos do […]

Finally the first track from the Meninos do Morumbi & Friends album is out on iTunes & CD Baby! I Love Rock n Roll The track was a combination of efforts from some great superstar friends, Stephen Ferrone Chris Wyse Barnett O’Hara Michael Thompson and Meninos do Morumbi The Music is Hope Foundation page has the […]

The second release for Meninos do Morumbi of Sao Paulo is my remix of their song Funk. Aside from Flavio Pimenta and the students on drums and vocals, I’ve added Steve Ferrone on drum kit with yours truly on bass and keys. This is the second official release from Music is Hope Foundation, with all proceeds […]

The first CD from the Music is Hope Foundation is the re-release of the 2006 Meninos Do Morumbi self titled album. Proceeds from the sale of the CD go to help support the Meninos Do Morumbi school in Sao Paulo. Over the past 13 years Flavio Pimenta and his Meninos Do Morumbi have educated and […]

Yesterday was the first day of overdubs on the Meninos Do Morumbi album for Music is Hope Foundation. Michael Thompson is an old friend and a fantastic musician! The song we worked on is a secret, but, it will be fabulous! Full speed ahead! After the session we posed for a snap.

Check out this short screen movie. I imported the movie into the live Pro Tools session and bounced it with the stereo feed we were getting from Studio A at Mosh Studio in Sao Paulo through the Source-Connect plugin. The video came from iChat. You can see me and Richard Martinez in Los Angeles in […]