Conrad Rodman "Connie" Jones III (March 22, 1934 – February 14, 2019 [1]) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist from New Orleans.

Jones started playing the bugle while in military school, and later changed to trumpet at age 10.

His first professional band was the Basin Street Six, a traditional New Orleans jazz group led by him and Pete Fountain.

[3] As a bandleader he played in the Blue Angel nightclub and later aboard the Mississippi steamboat Delta Queen.

[4] Connie Jones is renowned as one of the most talented musicians to emerge from New Orleans and received an honorary degree from Loyola University in May 2012.