[4] With her mother and father, she was part of the Jones Family Band,[3] which worked with Josephine Baker in 1919.
Jones then toured as a trombonist in the bands of Ma Rainey in the Grand Theater in Chicago and was cornetist for Al Wynn's OKeh recordings.
[3] She was involved in two recording sessions: in 1926, Albert Wynn's Gut Bucket Five (including with Barney Bigard) and 1941 in the Stuff Smith Sextet.
[7] She played trumpeter Miss Watkins, "a little girl from Birmingham",[8] in Oscar Michaux's 1936 musical film Swing!.
Credited as "Doli Armena", she has no speaking role in the film, but she performs trumpet several times,[4] playing the songs "I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful)" and "China Boy".