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
The Laurie Bower Singers	Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard	Morning Has Broken	02:36
Hagood Hardy	Don't Give up on Us	Tell Me My Name	02:52
Peter Appleyard	Satin Doll	Toronto Instrumental	02:39
Johnny Cowell	Concerto For Trumpet And Orchestra In D Major- Mvmt 4 Finale	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:52
Denny Vaughan	Happy Days Are Here Again	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:54
Hagood Hardy	Deck The Halls (With Boughs Of Holly)	The Christmas Album	02:05
Denny Vaughan	Northern Dancer	A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"	01:43
Ed Bickert	Ed Bickert - The Dreamer	The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)	02:50
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	How Insensitive	Montage	03:38
Yorkville Avenue Band	Watcha' Gonna Do When the Rent Comes Round	"Moving Day"	03:31
Rick Wilkins	Summer Song	For the Sake of Music	03:34
Jimmy Namaro	Jimmy	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:50
Russ Little	Friday Night at the Cadillac Club	On the Shoulders of Giants	05:51
Jimmy Dale	You’d Better Love Me	Soft and Groovy	02:34
Phil Nimmons Group	Squeeze Play	Take 10	03:58
Ben McPeek	Talk It Over In The Morning	Peace Train	02:21
Dr. Music	I Can See You	Doug Riley Transcription	05:34
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Sneaky	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	10:54
Russ Little	Footwork	Footwork	04:58
Johnny Cowell	Silver Thread & Golden Needles	The Tender Loving Care	02:39
Pat Riccio	Watermelon Man (Hancock)	From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)	03:11
Peter Appleyard	Conversation	Toronto Instrumental	02:04
Teddy Roderman	The Drifter	Makin' It With You	02:19
John Arpin	Augustan Club Waltzes (1901)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:45
Phil Nimmons Group	Jasper	Take 10	03:49
Wally Koster	My One and Only Love	The Songs of Wally Koster	03:16
Guido Basso	S'Wonderful	And All That Latin Jazz!	03:10
Carol McCartney	You Don't Know What Love Is	A Night in Tunisia	06:31
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Kicks (Closing Theme)	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	04:19
Don Thompson 'D.T.'	One Cylinder	Bluesprint	04:47
Claman Richard Morris & Jerry Toth	St. Lawrence Centre Song	St. Lawrence Centre Song	03:41
Jimmy Namaro	I Wanna Know	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:37
Moe Koffman	Song for My Father	Turned on	02:54
Jimmy Dale	Baby I'm A-Want You	Toronto Instrumental	02:33
Hagood Hardy	When a Child	The Christmas Album	04:38
The Laurie Bower Singers	Minute To Minute	When You Say Goodbye	03:01
Doug Wilson Quartet	Canadian Theme	Canada b/w Canadian Theme	03:55
The Laurie Bower Singers	Daniel	Wish I Was A Plane	03:17
The Mutual Understanding	Sunshine Man	Show Me Your Laughter/ Summer of '42 // Sunshine Man/ If You Say Goodbye	02:05
Jerry Toth	Make Me Rainbows	The Music Of	02:29
Bill Butler	Theme from Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2	Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler	02:31
Rick Wilkins	Somewhere Along the Way	My Heart Belongs to Me	02:57
Hagood Hardy	Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning)	Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning) b/w I'll Take Love	03:06
Doug Riley	The Way We Was	Freedom	04:44
Eugene Amaro	Twilight Time	Twilight Time	02:45
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra	I Enjoy Being a Girl	And I Love Her	02:07
Peter Appleyard	You've Got Your Troubles	The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)	02:48
Johnny Cowell	Caesar's Palace	Hot Brass	03:22
Lucio Agostini	Night In Spain	Action With Agostini	04:00
Doug Randle	You´d be so Nice to Come Home to (Doug Crosley, vocalist)	Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists	02:18
Jackie Richardson	Thank You Lord	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	00:40
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Too Late Now	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	05:59
Johnny Cowell	Pretty Girl	Our Winter Love	02:09
Lenny Breau	Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain (Fred Rose)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	03:18
Guido Basso	Embraceable You	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	06:13
Paul Hoffert	Lover Man	The Jazz Roots of	11:00
Paul Zaza	Summertime Drive	Faces and Places	02:19
Jimmy Namaro	East of the Sun	Driftwood	03:51
Lenny Breau	Lone Pine	Mo' Breau	03:08
Johnny Cowell	Valley of the Six Hundred	It's Gotta Be Love	02:06
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Won't You Step Into My Life	Montage	02:27
Jackie Richardson	I Alone	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	00:27
Johnny Cowell	Oops	His Girl	01:47
Compilation	Peter Appleyard - Soulful Strut	Motorcars In Concert 1970	02:53
Ben McPeek	Shopping Spree	His Voices and His Orchestra	03:06
Jerry Toth	Little Boy Blue	The Twelve Sides Of	02:33
Fred Stone	Maera	The Music of Fred Stone	04:21
Peter Appleyard	You Put the Shine on Me	Peter Appleyard Presents	03:16
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia	Do Something Nice Today!	02:25
Guido Basso	Sleigh Ride	Christmas Today	02:20
Compilation	Episode 7-Oh!	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	04:19
Denny Vaughan	Windy	Girls I Knew	02:31
Eugene Amaro	I Just Fall In Love Again	Warm	03:38
Norman Amadio Trio	Blues For Yna Yna	ST	02:31
Moe Koffman	Soul Finger	Turned on	02:20
John Arpin	Tickled to Death	Concert In Ragtime	01:57
John Arpin	Bird-Brain Rag	Concert In Ragtime	03:08
Guido Basso	Goofus	It's Happening	02:32
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life	Do Something Nice Today!	03:14
Lucio Agostini	Gold Leaf	Action With Agostini	02:00
Lucio Agostini	Pan Am Young and Old	Once Upon a Hundred Years	03:40
Compilation	Ted Komar - Bela Bimba	CBC Comp 409	02:24
Johnny Cowell	Kornig - Post Horn Gallop (arranged by Johnny Cowell)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:46
Guido Basso	Fascinating Rhythm	Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert	03:43
Bill Badgley	Theme from "The Sand Pebbles"	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:17
The Brian Browne Trio	The Brian Browne Trio - Bluesette	The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)	03:30
Wally Koster	My Funny Valentine	The Songs of Wally Koster	03:10
Wally Koster	L-O-V-E	The Songs of Wally Koster	02:37
The Laurie Bower Singers	Hey Look	Got a Feelin' for Love	02:22
Ben McPeek	Blue Cha Cha	His Voices and His Orchestra	02:06
Jimmy Dale	Bye Bye	Soft and Groovy	02:42
Rick Wilkins	Why Think About Tomorrow	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	05:43
Eugene Amaro	I Found My Love Last Summer	Warm	03:38
Johnny Cowell	To Love Somebody	The Tender Loving Care	02:37
Moe Koffman	Georgia on My Mind	Tales of Koffman	06:46
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Petite Waltz	Reminiscing: Featuring Teddy Roderman, trombonist	02:05
Ben McPeek	Fascinating Rhythm	His Voices and His Orchestra	02:05
Johnny Cowell	Flight of the Bumblebee (Wynton Marsalis)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:12
The Mutual Understanding	Rain Rain Go Away	In Wonderland	02:21
Compilation	Fifes and Feathers	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	04:54

The Toronto Jazz Scene

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Jim O'Driscoll - Chega Saudade No More Blues b/w If You Could Read My Mind

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Jim O'Driscoll - I Don't Know How to Love Him b/w What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life

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Russ Little - Ain't No Mountain High Enough

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Russ Little - Footwork

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Russ Little - Slow Burn

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Russ Little - On the Shoulders of Giants

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Russ Little - Snapshot

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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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