Career
Jones began playing drums at the age of thirteen and continued on throughout his college years, choosing traditional and modern jazz as his preferred mode of music He went "on the road" after graduating college in 1965 from the University of Iowa with a degree in history and political science, to "get it out of his system", but he never stopped his pursuit of a musical vocation. He moved to the Chicago area in 1967.
Later years he accompanied pianist Marian McPartland for a few years and then freelanced throughout Chicago with several bands, touring the United States and Europe.
He has worked quite a bit with Adam Makowicz, Larry Novak, Patricia Barber, Frank Doctorate"Rone, Art Hodes, Ira Sullivan, J.R. Monterose, and Stéphane Grappelli. Jones had short stints with Buddy DeFranco, Art Van Damme, Kai Winding, Curtis Fuller, Lee Konitz, "Wild Bill" Davison, Anita O"Day, Mark Murphy, Flip Phillips, Morgan King, Red Holloway, Eddie Higgins, Ike Cole, Clifford Jordan, Franz Jackson, Bobby Enriquez, Monty Alexander and Catherine Whitney, among many others
He has recorded with many of the previously mentioned musicians. Jones appeared quite regularly around the Chicago area with musicians from the young Jazz scene in Chicago.
He died in Chicago on December 9, 2015.