The Toronto Jazz Scene

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
The Laurie Bower Singers If You Feel Got a Feelin' for Love
Bill Badgley Tiny Bubbles At the Ports of Call
Guido Basso Give Her My Love It's Happening (re-issue)
Hagood Hardy A Boy Named Charlie Brown Maybe Tomorrow
Compilation Hang On Sloopy (arranged by Howard Cable) Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical
Hagood Hardy The Looking Glass As Time Goes By
Peter Appleyard Who Needs It ST
Moe Koffman Song for My Father Turned on
Jerry Toth I Am In Love The Twelve Sides Of
Jimmy Dale Wave Soft and Groovy
Jerry Toth Picasso Summer The Twelve Sides Of
Guido Basso Let It Snow Christmas Today
Lucio Agostini Golden Earrings Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini
Phil Nimmons Group Nimmons 'N' Nine - Room at the Back Strictly Nimmons
Guido Basso I Can Dream Can't I A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)
John Arpin Efficiency Rag Concert In Ragtime
Guido Basso Sweet Georgia Fame A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)
John Arpin Excelsior Rag (1909) Other Side Of Ragtime
Compilation Talk to the Animals (arranged by Ray Sikora) Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical
Hagood Hardy Deck The Halls (With Boughs Of Holly) The Christmas Album
Peter Appleyard Wichita Lineman The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)
Peter Appleyard Soulful Strut The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)
Peter Appleyard There Will Never Be Another You Per-cus-sive Jazz
Denny Vaughan The Girl Next Door Girls I Knew
Yorkville Avenue Band Do it Again "Moving Day"
The Laurie Bower Singers Rock With You When You Say Goodbye
The Laurie Bower Singers Out Here On My Own It Goes Like It Goes
Hagood Hardy Reunion (Theme from Rituals) Tell Me My Name
Eugene Amaro Danny Boy The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)
Ben McPeek Laughing Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene
The Laurie Bower Singers Ready To Take A Chance You
Alex Read & His Tin Pan Alley Cats Rag Medley (Rogers) From CBC Toronto (split with Pat Riccio Orchestra (LM 09)
The Laurie Bower Singers You're The One That I Want You
Lucio Agostini Pedro Pussycat Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini
Ed Bickert Ed Bickert - The Dreamer The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)
Peter Appleyard The Man With The Golden Arm Per-cus-sive Jazz
Johnny Cowell Don't Look Back It's Gotta Be Love
Jerry Toth Last Tango In Paris The Twelve Sides Of
Jimmy Namaro Street of Dreams featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra
Bill Badgley Theme from "The Sand Pebbles" Blue-Ribbon Badgley
Jimmy Namaro Sam For Short At the Westbury
Peter Appleyard Midnight Sun The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)
Jimmy Namaro Anna Maria Waltz featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra
Eugene Amaro Strangers In The Night The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)
Guido Basso Besame Mucho (Consuelo Velazquez) Lost in the Stars
Guido Basso Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Bill Badgley Fernando Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky
Bill Butler I Love You The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler
Peter Appleyard Swinging Shepherd Blues Peter Appleyard Presents
Ed Bickert A Flower Is A Lonesome Thing Bye Bye Baby
Moe Koffman Backbone Twist Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra Bess You is My Woman Trombone - Teddy Roderman
Johnny Cowell Lonely Girl Our Winter Love
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra Caribbean Moonlight ST
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Sku-Ba-Doo Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64
The Laurie Bower Singers Penny Lane Feelin'
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Kicks (Closing Theme) Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64
Rick Wilkins Jazz Gavotte From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)
2B3 Bill Payne, Michael Fonfara - High Heel Feat The Toronto Sessions
Bill Butler Intermezzo Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler
Compilation Jim Pirie - We'll Walk Together 1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind
Eugene Amaro Something About You Twilight Time
Lenny Breau Music to Watch Girls By Guitar Sounds From
Eugene Amaro Another Time Warm
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra I'll Be With You in Appleblossom Time Reminiscing: Featuring Teddy Roderman, trombonist
Hagood Hardy Beauty Stop 33 Sutton Place
Guido Basso I Go to Rio And All That Latin Jazz!
The Laurie Bower Singers Bye Bye Love Laurie Bower
Doug Randle London by Night (Doug Crosley, vocalist) Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists
Johnny Cowell Pickin' Plums Hot Brass
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith View from Paddy's Head Sailin' Home
Peter Appleyard Ben The Lincolnshire Poacher
The Laurie Bower Singers Something is Happening Feelin'
Johnny Cowell Concerto For Trumpet And Orchestra In D Major- Mvmt 1 Adagio The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Denny Vaughan May All Your Troubles be Little Ones Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By
Lucio Agostini Guadalajara Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini
Paul Zaza Mimosa Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)
Ben McPeek Leave Tenderly Thinking of You
Henry Cuesta Just a Closer Walk with Thee Clarinet With Strings
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' Wang Wang Blues Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read
Lucio Agostini Chuck Wagon Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Old Fashioned Way Toronto Instrumental
Vic Centro Sextet It's Only a Paper Moon ST
Hagood Hardy Balloons The Homecoming
Henry Cuesta Proud Mary Plays Favourites
Ben McPeek Imagine Peace Train
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra And I Love Her And I Love Her
Bill Badgley All At the Ports of Call
The Laurie Bower Singers Could I Have This Dance It Goes Like It Goes
The Laurie Bower Singers Love and Maple Syrup (Gordon Lightfoot) Love and Maple Syrup b/w Everybody's Reachin' Out for Someone
The Laurie Bower Singers Don't Give Up On Us Baby Looks Like We Made It
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia Do Something Nice Today!
Kathryn Moses My Romance ST
Ron Collier Tentet I Believe In You ST
Peter Appleyard The Last Blues Song The Lincolnshire Poacher
Ed Bickert It Might As Well Be Spring I Like To Recognize the Tune
The Laurie Bower Singers Hold On to a Little Bit of Love Morning Has Broken
Peter Appleyard Rock's Push Toronto Instrumental
Hogtown Trumpets Bustling CBC Comp 434 comp
Rick Wilkins Songbird For the Sake of Music

FEATURED

Denny Vaughan - Girls I Knew

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → London, England, 🇬🇧 → New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦 → California, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Denny Vaughan - Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → London, England, 🇬🇧 → New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦 → California, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → London, England, 🇬🇧 → New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦 → California, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → London, England, 🇬🇧 → New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦 → California, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Coleman, Alberta → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ron Collier Tentet - ST

Coleman, Alberta → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

Hochfeld, Manitoba→Vernon, British Columbia→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Joyce Sullivan - The Songs of Joyce Sullivan

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - We Gotta Get It All Together

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Johnny Cowell - His Girl

Tillsonburg, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ed Bickert - ST

Hochfeld, Manitoba→Vernon, British Columbia→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ed Bickert - Bye Bye Baby

Hochfeld, Manitoba→Vernon, British Columbia→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ed Bickert - I Like To Recognize the Tune

Hochfeld, Manitoba→Vernon, British Columbia→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Brian Browne Trio - The Toronto Scene

Montréal, Québec→Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Brian Browne Trio - Toronto Instrumental

Montréal, Québec→Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Brian Browne Trio - The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)

FEATURED

Yorkville Avenue Band - "Moving Day"

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ben McPeek - Thinking of You

Trail, British Columbia → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - Driftwood

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - At the Westbury

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - With Mallets A 4 Thought

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - Y' Gotta Quit Swingin' // We Could Make Such Beautiful Music

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Compilation - Motorcars In Concert 1970

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Guido Basso - One More for the Road

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Guido Basso - Lost in the Stars

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Guido Basso - A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Guido Basso - And All That Latin Jazz!

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Girls I Knew

Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By

Denny Vaughan And His Queen Elizabeth Hotel Orchestra – Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By (3)

Denny Vaughan And His Queen Elizabeth Hotel Orchestra – Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By (2)

Denny Vaughan And His Queen Elizabeth Hotel Orchestra – Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By (1)

Denny Vaughn Girls I Knew (4)

Denny Vaughn Girls I Knew (3)

Denny Vaughn Girls I Knew (2)

Denny Piano circa 1949b

Denny Vaughn

Duke Ellington: "North of the Border" in Canada

ST

The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)

The Songs of Joyce Sullivan

We Gotta Get It All Together

His Girl

ST

Bye Bye Baby

I Like To Recognize the Tune

Bickert, Ed

The Toronto Scene

Brian Browne Trio-The Toronto Scene BACK

Toronto Instrumental

The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)

Browne, Brian Trio

Brian Browne Trio-The Toronto Scene LABEL 02

Brian Browne Trio-The Toronto Scene LABEL 01

"Moving Day"

Yorkville Avenue Band / "Moving Day" LABELS

Yorkville Avenue Band / "Moving Day" BACK

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