sentences:  A 1996 videotaped interview completed by Dan Del Fiorentino was donated to the NAMM Oral History Program Collection in 2010 to preserve his music for future generations.Jones performed in the orchestra pit under the direction of Alexander Smallens and briefly in an onstage musical sequence of "Porgy and Bess", starring Cab Calloway.He was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1999 and died the following year in New York City.