Oliver Theophilus Jones, OC CQ (born September 11, 1934)[1] is a Canadian jazz pianist, organist, composer and arranger.

[2] Born in Little Burgundy, Montreal, Quebec, to Barbadian parents, Oliver Jones began his playing piano at the age of five,[1] studying with Mme Bonner in Little Burgundy's Union United Church,[3] made famous by Trevor W. Payne's Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir.

From 1964 to 1980, Jones was music director for the Jamaican calypso singer Kenny Hamilton,[5] based out of Puerto Rico.

By the mid-1980s, he was travelling throughout Canada, appearing at festivals, concerts and clubs, either as a solo artist or with a trio: Skip Bey, Bernard Primeau, and Archie Alleyne.

His tour of Nigeria was the subject of a 1990 National Film Board of Canada documentary, Oliver Jones in Africa.

[5] In 2009, Jones mentored jazz artist Dione Taylor through the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) Mentorship Program.