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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 750 online shows, Jim garnered 30,000 new online followers.

For his most recent album (his vocal debut) Jim returned to New Orleans, where he'd recorded Songs My Daughter Knows a decade earlier. Drummer Herlin Riley and bassist Amina Scott back him on the new record, titled Look Out. Jersey Jazz called the album "hip and swinging" and praised Jim for carrying on the tradition of "singer/pianists like Bobby Troup and Bob Dorough."