He started performing at the age of 10, putting speakers in front of the family home and charging local kids five cents to hear him play drums.
When he was 11, he played at the Broadmeadows Town Hall for a dancing school, and by 14 he performed three nights a week at the Bridge Hotel in Richmond.
Individual collaborations include with James Morrison, John Farnham, Dragon, Don Burrows, Kate Ceberano, Tommy Emmanuel, Rhonda Burchmore, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Don McLean, John Denver, Stevie Wonder, Marcia Hines, Debra Byrne, Rhonda Burchmore, and Larry Adler.
[3] In 1991, then in Sydney, Jones formed AtmaSphere, a jazz ensemble with Daryl Pratt, Adam Armstrong and Dev Gopalasamy as founding members.
The ensemble's music initially focused on polyrhythms, but later Carmen Warrington joined to add the spoken word, and there was another change to the lineup after Armstrong moved to New York City.
[5] In May 2011 he performed his first solo drum concert at a large venue, titled Energy Through Matter, at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
[1] In 2006 the first of two drum kit concertos was written specially for him by Japanese composer Toshi Watanabe; in 2018, Melbourne's Joe Chindamo wrote another one.