Jack Jones' first professional break was with his father, who was performing at the Thunderbird Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

[5] While performing at a San Francisco nightclub, Jack Jones was heard by Pete King, a producer and artist for Kapp Records, who quickly signed him to the label.

[7] During the years Jones was with Kapp, he recorded nearly twenty albums including Shall We Dance, This Was My Love, She Loves Me, Call Me Irresponsible, Bewitched, Wives and Lovers, Dear Heart, Where Love Has Gone, The Jack Jones Christmas Album, My Kind of Town, The Impossible Dream, The 'In' Crowd (providing vocal lyrics to Ramsey Lewis's earlier famous jazz instrumental version of 1965), Jack Jones Sings, Lady, Our Song, and I've Got a Lot of Living to Do!

Besides the choice of material, he worked with arrangers like Billy May, Nelson Riddle, Marty Paich, Shorty Rogers, Jack Elliott, Ralph Carmichael, Bob Florence, and Don Costa.

[citation needed] Jones moved from Kapp (London Records in the United Kingdom) to RCA Victor in 1967.

He began recording more contemporary material including covers of such well-known songwriters as Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, Carole King, Paul Williams, Richard Carpenter, Gordon Lightfoot, and Gilbert O'Sullivan.

His last LP for RCA was With One More Look at You (1977), which includes a rendition of the Little Feat hit "Dixie Chicken";[8] this performance later resurfaced on Golden Throats 2: More Celebrity Rock Oddities.

1999 saw the release of Jack Jones Paints a Tribute to Tony Bennett (Honest Entertainment), which was nominated for Grammy Awards for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance and Record of the Year.

In March 2008, Jones celebrated his 70th birthday and a half century in show business with a concert at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, California.

[11] Jones made his film debut in Juke Box Rhythm (1959) playing Riff Manton, a young singer who is involved romantically with a princess (Jo Morrow).

He acted in films such as The Comeback (1978), a gory British horror movie directed by Pete Walker along with the tele-film Condominium (1980), and Cruise of the Gods (2002).

He had a humorous cameo in the film parody Airplane II: The Sequel (1982); as Robert Hays' character avoids searchlights while escaping captivity, the beams become a spotlight on Jones, performing a verse from his Love Boat TV theme song.

He appeared on the Password TV game show with Carol Lynley in 1964 and multiple times with Joan Fontaine in 1967.

Beginning in the 21st century, Jones was active in musical theater, appearing in Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, and others.

[18] Jones died from leukemia at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California, on October 23, 2024, at the age of 86.