Ronald Jones (b. 7 July 1954, Kansas City, Kansas) is an American film composer, conductor, band leader, and sound producer renowned for his work on such acclaimed TV shows as Star Trek: The Next Generation, DuckTales, adult animation sitcoms American Dad! and Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane, and Butch Hartman’s The Fairly OddParents. He operates a private Ron Jones Productions company and owns SkyMuse Studios in Stanwood, Washington. Jones serves as the music director and conductor of a 22-piece Influence Jazz Orchestra in Los Angeles, California. In early 2019, he released North By Freaking West CD, a debut album by his new Seattle-based ensemble Jazz Forest, on Ron’s private imprint, SkyMuse Records.

Jones initially moved to Los Angeles to advance his music education at the Dick Grove School of Music under renowned film composer Lalo Schifrin. As a student, Ronald began working for broadcast networks, assisting at the music department on a few of Hanna Barbera’s TV productions on NBC, most notably The Smurfs and The Snorks cartoon series; he further gained professional experience apprenticing with a prolific composing duo of Mike Post and Pete Carpenter. His earliest credited soundtrack for the 1983 sci-fi short Digital Dream, Eric Steven Stahl’s directorial debut, curiously, became the first ever movie produced on 70mm film with a six-track digital stereo. Over the next five years, Ron Jones created soundtracks for several Hollywood feature-length movies — until in 1987, Walt Disney Music Company’s president, Chris Montan, asked him to write music for Disney’s first syndicated cartoon series, DuckTales.

Between 1987 and 1991, Ron Jones composed music for over 40 episodes of Paramount Television’s renowned sci-fi series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Abruptly fired with no apparent reason at the beginning of the fourth season, Jones later became one of the vocal critics of Rick Berman-era Star Trek, claiming that electronic music scores in multiple subsequent spin-offs lost the original melodic otherworldly charm. Other notable TV scores he wrote around that time included Superman (1988) animation series by Warner Bros. Television and Ruby-Spears Productions on CBS and six episodes of Mission Impossible in 1988–89 produced by Paramount Pictures for ABC, where Jones briefly took over his mentor, Lalo Schifrin, who scored the opening three episodes.

Jones collaborated with Walter Murphy on the first twelve seasons of Family Guy animation sitcom on FOX from 1999 until 2014, for which they jointly won the Top Television Series ASCAP Film and TV Music Award in 2013 with Seth MacFarlane; Ron also shared the 2012 Grammy nomination in the Best Song Written for a Motion Picture/Television category and received four Primetime Emmy nominations between 2000 and 2011 for his work on Family Guy. From 2002 to 2004, Ron Jones won three consecutive BMI Cable Awards for his music scores for Nickelodeon’s animated series The Fairly OddParents.