thumb|240px|Koncert zespołu organizacji Jazzmobile w Nowym Jorku: Slide Hampton – puzon, Sam Jones – kontrabas i Jimmy Heath – saksofon, 1978 Samuel Jones (ur. 12 listopada 1924 w Jacksonville w stanie Floryda, zm. 15 grudnia 1981 w Nowym Jorku) – amerykański kontrabasista jazzowy.
Życiorys Urodzony na Florydzie Jones od 1955 mieszkał i działał w Nowym Jorku. Współpracował z takimi muzykami, jak Bobby Timmons, Tiny Bradshaw, Les Jazz Modes, Kenny Dorham, Illinois Jacquet, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie (1958–59) i Thelonious Monk. Był członkiem kwintetu Cannoballa Adderleya w latach 1959-1965, a także tria Oscara Petersona w latach 1966–1970 (zastąpił tam Raya Browna).
Skomponował takie utwory, jak Del Sasser i Unit 7.
Dyskografia Jako leader 1960: The Soul Society (Riverside) 1961: The Chant (Riverside) 1962: Down Home (Riverside) 1974: Seven Minds (East Wind) 1976: Cello Again (Xanadu) 1977: Changes and Things (Xanadu) 1977: Something In Common (Muse) 1978: Visitation (SteepleChase) 1978: The Bassists (Discovery) – z Keithem Copelandem i Kennym Barronem 1978: Something New - 12 Piece Band (Interplay) 1988: Right Down Front: The Riverside Collection (Original Jazz Classics)
Jako sideman z Cannonballem Adderleyem Somethin' Else (1958; Blue Note) Portrait of Cannonball (1959; Riverside) The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (1959; Riverside) Them Dirty Blues (1960; Riverside) The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse (1960; Riverside) African Waltz (1961; Riverside) The Cannonball Adderley Quintet Plus (1961; Riverside) Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley (1961; Riverside) The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (1962; Riverside) Cannonball in Europe! (1962; Riverside) Jazz Workshop Revisited (1962; Riverside) Autumn Leaves (1963; Riverside [Japan]) Nippon Soul (1963; Riverside) Cannonball Adderley Live! (1964) Live Session! (1964) Cannonball Adderley’s Fiddler on the Roof (1964) Phenix (1975, Fantasy) z Natem Adderleyem To the Ivy League from Nat (1956; EmArcy) Work Song (1960; Riverside) In the Bag (1962; Jazzland) z Walterem Davisem Juniorem Davis Cup (1959; Blue Note) z Lou Donaldsonem The Time is Right (1959; Blue Note) Sunny Side Up (1960; Blue Note) Blowing in the Wind (1966; Cadet) Lou Donaldson At His Best (1966; Cadet) z Terrym Gibbsem Take It from Me (Impulse!, 1964) Bopstacle Course (1974; Xanadu Records) z Dizzym Gillespie The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (Verve, 1959) Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (Verve, 1959) z Yusefem Lateefem The Gentle Giant (Atlantic, 1971) Part of the Search (Atlantic, 1973) z Blue Mitchellem Blue's Moods (1960; Riverside) A Sure Thing (1962; Riverside) z Bobbym Timmonsem This Here is Bobby Timmons (1960; Riverside) Soul Time (1960; Riverside) Easy Does It (1961; Riverside) Sweet and Soulful Sounds (1962; Riverside) Born to Be Blue! (1963; Riverside) From the Bottom (1964; Riverside) Workin’ Out! (1964; Riverside) z Oscarem Petersonem Blues Etude (1966; Limelight) Soul Espanol (1966; Limelight) The Way I Really Play (1968; MPS) Mellow Mood (1968; MPS) Travelin’ On (1968; MPS) Hello Herbie (1969; MPS) Tristeza on Piano (1970; MPS) z innymi muzykami Kenny Dorham – ’Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia (1956; Blue Note) Kenny Burrell – Blue Lights Volume 1 (1958; Blue Note) Kenny Burrell - Blue Lights Volume 2 (1958; Blue Note) Clark Terry – In Orbit (1958; Riverside Records) Bud Powell – Time Waits (1958; Blue Note) Bill Evans – Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1958; Riverside) Chet Baker – It Could Happen to You (1958) Donald Byrd – Off to the Races (1959; Blue Note) Donald Byrd - Byrd in Hand (1959; Blue Note) Thelonious Monk – At Town Hall (1959; Riverside) Thelonious Monk - 5 by Monk by 5 (1959; Riverside) Julian Priester – Spiritsville (1960) Sonny Red – Out of the Blue (1960; Blue Note) Horace Parlan – Movin’ & Groovin’ (1960; Blue Note) Freddie Hubbard – Open Sesame (1960; Blue Note) Tina Brooks – True Blue (1960; Blue Note) Barry Harris – Barry Harris at the Jazz Workshop (1960; Riverside) John Lee Hooker – That’s My Story (1960; Riverside) Harold Land – West Coast Blues! (1960; Jazzland Records) Kenny Drew – Undercurrent (1960; Blue Note) Wes Montgomery – Movin' Along (1960) Paul Gonsalves – Gettin' Together (1960; Jazzland) Wynton Kelly – Wynton Kelly! (1961; Vee-Jay) Grant Green – Gooden's Corner (1961; Blue Note) Fred Jackson – Hootin' 'n Tootin' (1962; Blue Note) Jimmy Raney – The Influence (1975; Xanadu Records) Clifford Jordan – The Highest Mountain (1975; Inner City) Al Cohn – Al Cohn's America (1976; Xanadu Records) Cedar Walton – Firm Roots (1976; Muse) Al Cohn i Dexter Gordon – True Blue by (1976; Xanadu Records), Silver Blue (1976; Xanadu Records) Ted Dunbar – Opening Remarks (1978; Xanadu Records) Billy Mitchell – The Colossus Of Detroit (1978; Xanadu Records)
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