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Jim Doxas

Jim Doxas is a drummer, percussionist, bandleader, recording engineer, producer, and educator whose projects connect Montréal jazz with international groups.

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Career Overview

About Jim Doxas

McGill and Doxas’s management biography identify a Montréal drummer, percussionist, recording engineer, producer, and educator heard on more than 150 albums and soundtracks. They also document his long tenure in the Oliver Jones Trio and faculty role at McGill.[1][2]

His current projects span the Jim Doxas Trio, the Doxas Brothers, Riverside with Dave Douglas, Steve Swallow, and Chet Doxas, and the Jean-Michel Pilc Trio. Those settings move from family-led quartet writing to collective small-group improvisation.[2][3][5]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, drummer, and composer

Jim Doxas Trio

The trio provides Doxas with a leader setting distinct from the collaborative groups that make up much of his recorded work.[2]

Co-leader and drummer

Riverside

Riverside joins Jim and Chet Doxas with Dave Douglas and Steve Swallow in a collective quartet documented by Greenleaf Music.[2][3]

Co-leader and drummer

Doxas Brothers

Jim and saxophonist Chet Doxas lead a family-centered group whose catalog includes The Circle and Kindred.[2][5]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2014 · Greenleaf Music

Riverside

Co-leader and drummer

The quartet debut pairs the Doxas brothers with Dave Douglas and Steve Swallow in a collective original-music session.[3][2]

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3rio

Co-leader and drummer with Alex Côté and Gary Schwartz

The artist-authorized edition documents Doxas in a compact collaborative group outside his family quartet and Riverside.[2][4]

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2023

Kindred

Doxas Brothers co-leader and drummer

The second Doxas Brothers album develops the group’s shared writing and Montréal-rooted quartet language.[2][5]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Riverside

Stream the complete Doxas-Douglas-Swallow quartet album through Greenleaf Music’s Bandcamp.

Kindred

Hear the Doxas Brothers’ complete second album through the group’s artist-run edition.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Fri, Sep 25, 7:30 PM

Jim Doxas Quartet Coltrane Sound - a centennial celebration of John Coltrane

Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill · Montreal

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Fri, Sep 25, 9:45 PM

Jim Doxas Quartet Coltrane Sound - a centennial celebration of John Coltrane

Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill · Montreal

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Thu, Oct 15, 8:30 PM

Album Release for Shirantha Beddage’s “Departures”

Jazz Bistro · Toronto

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Evidence-Based Connections

Related Musician Guides

Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Faculty biography and current teaching role

    McGill University

  2. [2] Management biography and current project guide

    Céline Peterson Productions

  3. [3] Riverside stream and quartet personnel

    Greenleaf Music

  4. [4] 3rio stream and personnel

    3rio

  5. [5] Doxas Brothers album stream and credits

    Doxas Brothers