Elvin Ray Jones (Gunyana 9, 1927 - Chivabvu 18, 2004) aive muridzi wengoma reJazz rekuAmerika muzera reposti-bhopu. Anonyanya kufarirwa inhengo yequartet yaJohn Coltrane, waakanyora naye kubva mukupera kwa1960 kusvika kunopera 1965, Jones akaonekwa pamaarubhamu akakurumbira akadai seMy Favorite Things, A Love Supreme, Ascension uye Live at Birdland. Mushure me1966, Jones akatungamira vake vatatu, uye gare gare mapoka makuru pasi pezita rekuti The Elvin Jones Jazz Machine. Vanin'ina vake Hank na Thad vaipembererwawo vaimbi veJazzi vaaipota achirekodha navo. Elvin akapinzwa muHall of Fame ye Modern Drummer muna 1995. Munwadhi rake rinonzi The History of Jazz, munyori wenhoroondo dzejazz uye mutsoropodzi Ted Goia anodana Jones kuti “mumwe wevaimbi vane simba zvikuru munhoroondo yejazz.” Yanow, Scott. "Elvin Jones". AllMusic. Retrieved October 19, 2011. http://www.moderndrummer.com/modern-drummers-readers-poll-archive/#_ Gioia, Ted (1997). The history of jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 304.