JIM CLAYTON

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DownBeat Magazine called Jim Clayton’s music “warm, happy, and soulful.” He calls it a blend of bebop and New Orleans, the city he considers a second home (his first one is Toronto, Canada). His repertoire is a mix of jazz standards, reimagined pop classics, and his own memorable writing.

Jim’s last two albums, Lenny Jumps In (2016) and Songs My Daughter Knows (2014) landed on the jazz radio charts in both Canada and the USA. He won three national awards with recording act The Clayton/Scott Group, and his music has been heard internationally on radio, in film, and on television (including Dateline NBC, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, and MTV).

Jim spent a decade as a music director with acclaimed theatre company The Second City, entertaining audiences around the globe, from ex-pats in Asia to our troops in Bosnia. He began streaming nightly performances at the start of the pandemic; after over
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JIM CLAYTON Muskoka album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Muskoka
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1997
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Songs My Daughter Knows
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2013
JIM CLAYTON Lenny Jumps In album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lenny Jumps In
Hard Bop 2016
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Look Out
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2023

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