Patron of The Arts
Jones has taken sabbaticals from time to time to raise funds for his friends in the scientific and bohemian communities, to launch projects of profound scientific and intellectual merit. In 2000, with co-inventors Erik Westerman and Ozzie Johnston (son of The Beach Boys legend Bruce Johnston), Jones invented BUYTV the first mechanism to allow cable viewers to purchase goods and services through their television set, using a set top box. In 2008 Jones assisted his Motown friends to market the Martin Luther King Feature Film in the Gulf, starting in Dubai. Jones led Motown legend Mark Davis, producer of Let's Get It On and the soundtrack to the film Animal House to a meeting with His Royal Highness Sheikh Saud of Ras El Khaimeh. In 2009 Jones led a British television delegation to visit His Royal Highness Sheikh Abdulla bin Hamad in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
In Turkey, Jones befriended Grammy-award winning trumpet legend Chris Botti and DJ Filth, an award winning artist from Ireland, whose real name is Phillip, with an award winning Pink Panther sound track. The latter he flew in to France to play at his wedding at Chateau du bas-Miniac, his wife's childhood country home.
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