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
Jimmy Namaro Afro-Rock We Gotta Get It All Together
Guido Basso What A Friend It's Happening
Jackie Richardson A Single Woman Woman's View... Through Child Eyes
The Laurie Bower Singers Angie Baby Back Home Again
John Arpin Cannonball Blues Concert In Ragtime
John Arpin Softly Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot
Rick Wilkins You Can Have Me Anytime Discovery
The Laurie Bower Singers Don't Give Up On Us Baby Looks Like We Made It
The Laurie Bower Singers Could I Have This Dance It Goes Like It Goes
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Wichita Lineman The Now Sound
Jerry Toth Gymnopedie The Classic Jerry Toth
Ben McPeek Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars His Voices and His Orchestra
Eugene Amaro Girl From Ipanema The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)
Guido Basso Early Morning Rain Love Talk
John Arpin Wild Cherries Rag (1908) Other Side Of Ragtime
The Brian Browne Trio The Brian Browne Trio - Cast Your Fate The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)
Jimmy Namaro When I Grow Too Old to Dream With Mallets A 4 Thought
Teddy Roderman Oops Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones
Compilation Bernie Senensky - New Life Blues Jazz Toronto
Henry Cuesta Forever April Clarinet With Strings
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Goin' Out Of My Head The Now Sound
Teddy Roderman Animal Crackers in My Soup Makin' It With You
Guido Basso Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Teddy Roderman Beautiful Second Hand Man Makin' It With You
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Blues for Someone Else Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64
Jimmy Namaro He-Wat’s Happening? (What’s Happening) Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' Fidgety Feet + Horn = Dixie
Peter Appleyard Mambo Inn Per-cus-sive Jazz
Jimmy Namaro Balikpapan Driftwood
The Laurie Bower Singers Love to the People Looks Like We Made It
Ed Bickert Skylark I Like To Recognize the Tune
Peter Appleyard Mack The Knife Per-cus-sive Jazz
Johnny Cowell Song of Joy The Virtuoso Trumpet
The Brian Browne Trio Careless Love The Toronto Scene
Bill Butler A Portrait of a Piano Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler
Ivy Steel Prelude to a Kiss Reincarnation
Hagood Hardy & the Montage The Garden Path Montage
Hagood Hardy Samba de Orfeu Stop 33 Sutton Place
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree Do Something Nice Today!
Hagood Hardy Rain, Rain Stop 33 Sutton Place
The Mutual Understanding If You Say Goodbye Show Me Your Laughter/ Summer of '42 // Sunshine Man/ If You Say Goodbye
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Transformations: 2nd movement Transformations - Invocations
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six I Told You So Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64
Compilation Tommy Ambrose - In The Words of a Lover 1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind
The Laurie Bower Singers Sunshine On My Shoulders Back Home Again
Doug Crosley For All We Know With Lucio Agostini and his Orchestra
Phil Nimmons Group The Perfect Nanny Mary Popppins Swings
Pat Riccio Sympatico (Mascheroni-Engvick) Babs Babineau: vocals From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)
Pete Schofield and the Canadians A Brand New Scene Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎
Phil Nimmons Group My Old Flame Nimmons 'N' Nine
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Music To Watch Girls By The Now Sound
Paul Zaza Beautiful People Coasting (with Isaacs)
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith View from Paddy's Head Sailin' Home
Tommy Ambrose Goodbye Young Tommy Ambrose
Compilation Ted Komar - My Beloved CBC Comp 409
Paul Zaza Foxy Lady Coasting (with Isaacs)
Yorkville Avenue Band The Big Noise From Vinnetka "Moving Day"
The Laurie Bower Singers Battle Of New Orleans Wish I Was A Plane
Moe Koffman Mrs. Robinson Turned on
Rick Wilkins Let Me be the One My Heart Belongs to Me
Johnny Cowell Gymnopedie #3 The Virtuoso Trumpet
Johnny Cowell Concerto For Trumpet And Orchestra In D Major- Mvmt 2 Allegro The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Peter Appleyard Only For Lovers The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)
Guido Basso Nightcap It's Happening
Peter Appleyard Wichita Lineman The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)
Moe Koffman Dr. Swahili Goes Electric
Hagood Hardy Balloons The Homecoming
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra Fly Me to the Moon And I Love Her
Hagood Hardy Cold on the Shoulder The Homecoming
Moe Koffman Flute Twist Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens
Paul Zaza Canadian Express Faces and Places
The Laurie Bower Singers Lay it On Me Take Me Home Country Roads
The Laurie Bower Singers Here's That Rainy Day Feelin'
Paul Zaza Mimosa Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)
Henry Cuesta Just a Closer Walk with Thee Clarinet With Strings
Doug Randle Martin of Her Mind Songs for the New Industrial State
Moe Koffman Mein Shtetel Belz Tales of Koffman
The Laurie Bower Singers You're Driving Me Crazy Feelin'
Ben McPeek Mame The Original Sounds of
Joyce Sullivan As Long as He Needs Me The Songs of Joyce Sullivan
Phil Nimmons Group Step in Time Mary Popppins Swings
Eugene Amaro To Spend My Love Twilight Time
The Laurie Bower Singers Sundown Back Home Again
Joyce Sullivan I Could Write a Book The Songs of Joyce Sullivan
The Laurie Bower Singers Christmas is for Children Christmas is for Children b/w What is Christmas (Pop Style)
Lucio Agostini Help Yourself Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass
Guido Basso Jingle Bells Christmas Today
Guido Basso Goofus It's Happening (re-issue)
Bill Butler I'm Always Chasing Rainbows Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler
Hagood Hardy & the Montage Scarboro Fair (Simon/Garfunkel) ST
The Laurie Bower Singers Sing Me a Rainbow Feelin'
Johnny Cowell Don't Mention My Name Hot Brass
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Live & Let Die Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎
Pat Riccio Then I'll Be Tired of You (Schwarz-Harburg) Doug Crosley: vocals From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)
Paul Hoffert The Song is You The Jazz Roots of
Moe Koffman Harvest Festival (Allegro) The Four Seasons
Don Thompson 'D.T.' Rockin' Good Way Bluesprint
Hagood Hardy Jingle Bells The Christmas Album
Russ Little Deeper and Deeper (Russ Little) Deeper and Deeper
Joyce Sullivan Say it Isn't So The Songs of Joyce Sullivan

FEATURED

Denny Vaughan - Girls I Knew

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

FEATURED

Denny Vaughan - Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra

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

FEATURED

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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