The Toronto Jazz Scene

A city of clubs, sessions, and serious chops—Toronto has long been the beating heart of Canadian jazz. This collection pays tribute to the players, composers, and innovators who shaped its sound: from smoky post-war lounges to modern downtown lofts, from straight-ahead swingers to boundary-pushing experimentalists. Featuring legends, sidemen, and new voices alike, The Toronto Jazz Scene captures the energy, elegance, and evolution of one of North America’s most vital jazz communities.

Tracks

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Ben McPeek	Both Sides Now	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	03:07
Rick Wilkins	You Can Have Me Anytime	Discovery	03:28
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Watermelon Man	The Now Sound	03:03
Johnny Cowell	I Can't Get Started (Al Hirt & Bunny Berigan)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:43
Hagood Hardy	No Good On My Own	As Time Goes By	03:31
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Perfect Day	Sailin' Home	02:25
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Come Saturday Morning	Montage	02:57
Teddy Roderman	That's Life	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	02:00
Jimmy Namaro	Cha Cha Chimes	Driftwood	02:14
Doug Riley	Child Eyes	Freedom	05:21
Compilation	Lizzie Simcoe	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	04:02
Jimmy Namaro	Similau	With Mallets A 4 Thought	04:20
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Caribbean Moonlight	ST	03:09
Lenny Breau	Cold, Cold Heart	Guitar Sounds From	04:44
The Laurie Bower Singers	Is Someone Listening?	Morning Has Broken	02:18
Peter Appleyard	Harlem Nocturne	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:31
Jimmy Namaro	September Song	Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury	02:54
Lenny Breau	You Needed Me	ST	04:33
Lenny Breau	Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain (Fred Rose)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	03:18
The Laurie Bower Singers	Theme from Chariots of Fire - Race to the End	Laurie Bower	02:42
The Laurie Bower Singers	Pussywillow Cat-tails	Morning Has Broken	02:53
Compilation	Meditation (arranged by Ray Sikora)	Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical	04:29
Terry Watada	Cheyenne and the Weasel	Night's Disgrace	03:16
Moe Koffman	Tangerine (Bossa Nova)	Tales of Koffman	03:19
Robert Tennison Troupe	I Can See (Instrumental)	Watch Me Now (Hear Me Now) b/w I Can See (Instrumental)	02:44
Hagood Hardy	It's Sad to Belong to Someone Else	Tell Me My Name	03:10
Vic Centro Sextet	My Heart Cries For You	ST	02:15
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Lujon	ST	02:42
John Arpin	I Can't Depend On Love	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	03:07
John Arpin	Excelsior Rag (1909)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:06
Bill Butler	I'll Remember April	The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler	03:08
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Back On the Bus	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	03:46
Lenny Breau	Tuning Time	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	01:49
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Do Something Nice Today	Do Something Nice Today! b/w Summer Love	02:32
Compilation	Laurie Bower Singers - Sometime Girl	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	02:00
Guido Basso	Mia Mia	It's Happening	02:48
Yorkville Avenue Band	St. Louis Blues	"Moving Day"	03:13
The Laurie Bower Singers	Nine to Five	It Goes Like It Goes	02:34
Denny Vaughan	Lonely Evening Time	Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra	03:13
Guido Basso	If I Let You Go	Love Talk	02:54
Joyce Sullivan	Bill	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	03:16
Jimmy Namaro	Hammering Home	With Mallets A 4 Thought	02:41
Compilation	This Could be the Start of Something Big (arranged by Bruce Cassidy)	Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical	03:09
Ed Bickert	Manha de Carnaval	ST	09:46
Hagood Hardy	Silent Night, Holy Night	The Christmas Album	02:48
Guido Basso	Tequila	It's Happening (re-issue)	02:43
Jerry Toth	The Fool On the Hill	The Music Of	02:42
The Laurie Bower Singers	Hey Look	Got a Feelin' for Love	02:22
Dr. Music	Ain't That a Groove	Doug Riley Transcription	07:52
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	One 'O' Nine	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	06:53
2B3	Michael Fonfara, Rob Gusevs - Burnin' at the Stake	The Toronto Sessions	04:59
Guido Basso	Give Her My Love	It's Happening	02:25
The Laurie Bower Singers	She's Always A Woman	You	03:37
Doug Riley	Theme for Adele	Freedom	07:05
Lenny Breau	Autumn Leaves	Mo' Breau	02:01
The Laurie Bower Singers	Mississippi	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:00
Henry Cuesta	Am I in Love?	Clarinet With Strings	02:22
Jimmy Namaro	Bossa Nova Para Que Jaime	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	02:33
Johnny Cowell	Caesar's Palace	Hot Brass	03:22
Ron Collier Tentet	The Days of Wine And Roses	ST	02:39
Rick Wilkins	Princess Leia's Theme (From Star Wars)	For the Sake of Music	03:59
Ed Bickert	Come Rain or Come Shine	ST	09:46
Ben McPeek	Who Can I Turn to	His Voices and His Orchestra	03:12
Jimmy Namaro	Dark Eyes	Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury	05:13
Peter Appleyard	Dragnet	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:11
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Invocation: Gold (The Challenge)	Transformations - Invocations	10:24
Jackie Richardson	If I Could	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	03:28
Guido Basso	A Lazy Afternoon	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	03:46
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	A Brand New Scene	Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎	02:53
Compilation	Ted Komar - Bela Bimba	CBC Comp 409	02:24
Jerry Toth	Here There & Everywhere .. Albert Pratz violin solo	The Classic Jerry Toth	02:38
Joyce Sullivan	As Long as He Needs Me	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	02:34
Peter Appleyard	Happiness is a Thing Called Joe	The Vibraphone Of	02:59
Ed Bickert	Ed Bickert - The Dreamer	The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)	02:50
Lucio Agostini	The Girls of Spain	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	02:28
Phil Nimmons Group	The Perfect Nanny	Mary Popppins Swings	04:06
Fred Stone	Troika	The Music of Fred Stone	06:23
The Laurie Bower Singers	Fool That I Am	It Goes Like It Goes	02:51
Compilation	Jerry Toth - But for Love	Motorcars In Concert 1970	02:29
Yorkville Avenue Band	Moving Day	"Moving Day"	03:10
The Mutual Understanding	When The World Was Young	In Wonderland	03:49
Russ Little	Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little)	Deeper and Deeper	03:05
Jimmy Namaro	Nightingale	Driftwood	03:05
Doug Randle	The Doug Randle Orchestra - Fanny	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	02:32
Jerry Toth	Who Are You Now? .. Nicholas Fiore flute solo	The Classic Jerry Toth	03:19
Doug Randle	The Doug Randle Orchestra - Dear Heart	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	03:03
Rick Wilkins	A Wish Away	For the Sake of Music	03:17
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Oh Didn't He Ramble	Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read	02:36
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	The Garden Path	Montage	03:19
Teddy Roderman	The Drifter	Makin' It With You	02:19
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Taste of Honey	It’s a Sign of the Times	02:59
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Baby Elephant Walk	The Old Meets the New	04:32
The Laurie Bower Singers	Just To Be Alone With You	You	02:39
Johnny Cowell	Close to You	The Tender Loving Care	02:55
Tommy Ambrose	This Song Is Ended	Young Tommy Ambrose	02:18
Ed Bickert	Girl Talk	I Like To Recognize the Tune	03:04
Guido Basso	My Foolish Heart	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	07:13
Compilation	Dave Young & Oscar Peterson - OP&D	Jazz Toronto	05:45
Hagood Hardy	Don't Give up on Us	Tell Me My Name	02:52
Hagood Hardy	Folks Who Live on the Hill	Stop 33 Sutton Place	03:10

The Toronto Jazz Scene

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Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

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Hagood Hardy & the Montage - Montage

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Hagood Hardy & the Montage - ST

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Ed Bickert - Out of the Past

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Jimmy Namaro - We Gotta Get It All Together

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Tony Quarrington - One Bright Morning

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Hagood Hardy - Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning) b/w I'll Take Love

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Johnny Cowell - It's Gotta Be Love

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Terry Watada - Night's Disgrace

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Terry Watada - Yellow Fever

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Peter Appleyard - The Vibraphone Of

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Peter Appleyard - Peter Appleyard Presents

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Peter Appleyard - Toronto Instrumental

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Peter Appleyard - The Lincolnshire Poacher

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Peter Appleyard - The Vibe Sound Of

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Peter Appleyard - Per-cus-sive Jazz

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Peter Appleyard - ST

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Peter Appleyard - The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)

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Dr. Music - Doug Riley Transcription

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Doug Riley - Freedom

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Rick Wilkins - My Heart Belongs to Me

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Denny Vaughan - Girls I Knew

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Denny Vaughan - Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra

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Denny Vaughan - A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"

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Denny Vaughan - Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By

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Ron Collier Orchestra & Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington: "North of the Border" in Canada

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Ron Collier Tentet - ST

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Ed Bickert - The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)

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Joyce Sullivan - The Songs of Joyce Sullivan

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Johnny Cowell - His Girl

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