Richard M Jones is also famous as the authority for a great story about King Oliver. In the pre- Oliver days in New Orleans, Freddie Keppard was famous as the best trumpet player(or cornet, I'm not sure). As King Oliver was getting established, he was frustrated at Keppard's reputaion. Anyway, after a few years, King Oliver thought he was ready,when his band was setting up to play in a bar(Richard M Jones on piano); and Freddie Keppard's Band was in another bar across the street. The Keppard band was in full flood and his bar was full. At this point King Oliver said to Richard M Jones "Hit me in B flat"(without specifying a tune). So Richard MJ banged a Bflat chord, and King oliver stuck his horn out of the window, and proceeded to blus the hottest music New Orleans had ever heard, straight at the bar where Keppard was playing. People duly trooped out of there, and walked across and settled in the Oliver bar. And he turned to Richard M Jones and said "That bastard won't bother me no more".