[1][2][3] Conway plays blues, jazz and country music, and has undertaken national tours with American bluesman Brownie McGhee, The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, Circus Oz and Backsliders and more recently Jim Conway's Big Wheel.

He has twice been a judge at the Hohner Australian Harmonica Championships at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.

Conway is a sought after session musician and has recorded with numerous artists including Shane Howard (Goanna Band) Colin Hay (Men at Work), Jon Lord (Deep Purple), Bob Brozman, Slim Dusty, Jan Preston, Tim Gaze, Dutch Tilders, Anne Kirkpatrick and Pat Drummond.

Conway has also composed, produced and recorded music for a broad range of film and radio projects, including the Kennedy Miller telemovie The Riddle of the Stinson and the comedy feature The Honourable Wally Norman which was chosen to open the 2003 Sydney Film Festival.

[5] At the Sydney Paralympics Opening Ceremony he performed a piece of music specially written to feature his harmonica playing.