Uriel Jones (June 13, 1934 – March 24, 2009) was an American musician. Jones was a recording session drummer for Motown‘s in-house studio band, the Funk Brothers, during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Jones was first hired by Motown as a fill-in for principal drummer Benny Benjamin; along with Richard “Pistol” Allen, he moved up the line as recordings increased and Benjamin’s health deteriorated. Hits that Jones played drums on include “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – both versions, by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell in 1967 and the 1970 remake by Diana Ross, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and “Ain’t That Peculiar” by Marvin Gaye, “Cloud Nine” (in which he was augmented by Spider Webb), “I Can’t Get Next to You“, and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” by the Temptations, “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted” by Jimmy Ruffin, Jr. Walker‘s “Home Cookin’,” “The Tracks of My Tears” and “I Second That Emotion” by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, and “For Once in My Life” by Stevie Wonder. His influences included jazz drummer Art Blakey. For his Motown recordings, Jones performed on a studio set composed of Ludwig, Slingerland, Rogers and Gretsch components and possibly Zildjiancymbals. Jones became better known to music fans through his appearance in the feature documentary film, Standing in the Shadows of Motown. Motown arranger Paul Riser said of Jones that “Uriel’s drum sound was the most open and laid-back, and he was the funkiest of the three guys we had…He had a mixed feel and did a lot of different things well.”