Jim Doxas

About

The artist

Jim Doxas is a drummer, composer, recording engineer, educator, and producer based in Montréal, Quebec. Raised in a musical Montréal family, he studied at McGill University and developed a flexible approach influenced by jazz, rock, Motown, and world music. His current professional biography reports work on more than 150 albums and soundtracks. Doxas spent more than a decade in the Oliver Jones Trio and has performed with musicians including John Abercrombie, Joe Lovano, Hank Jones, Dave Douglas, Steve Swallow, Jean-Michel Pilc, and his brother Chet Doxas. His drumming appears on Belleville Rendez-Vous from The Triplets of Belleville, whose song received Grammy and Academy Award nominations. Current projects include Riverside, the Jean-Michel Pilc Trio, the Jim Doxas Trio, and the Doxas Brothers. He is also a current McGill University course instructor in jazz drums and ensembles. In July 2025, Doxas co-produced the Oscar Peterson Centennial Gala at Montréal's Maison symphonique and performed in its opening quartet. His current exact Spotify identity has four primary album and single containers released from September through October 2024, led by the ten-track collaborative album IQ84. The same Spotify identity also carries the 2019 solo album Homebound, which is linked from his current professional page but does not appear in Spotify's current primary artist-albums response. MusicList therefore records five directly verified containers without treating that count as his full career discography. Representative releases include Homebound, Night Path, Air Chrysalis, Rondo Squilibrato, and IQ84. A current representation page, McGill's 2026 faculty directory, a 2025 Montréal production credit, and a current Canadian jazz source that describes him as still based in his shared hometown collectively satisfy MusicList's current Montréal and Quebec gate. Doxas received Yamaha's Rising Star Award as a student and later appeared at Carnegie Hall in a gala for young North American talent. Professional inquiries route through his current representation page. His Spotify profile image is requested live from Spotify with visible attribution rather than stored by MusicList.