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
Bill Butler	Spring Will be a Little Late This Year	The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler	02:51
Jimmy Namaro	Sonny’s Daze	Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury	03:33
The Laurie Bower Singers	Take Me Home Country Roads	Take Me Home Country Roads	02:40
Denny Vaughan	Je Reviens Chez-Nous	Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra	02:27
Paul Zaza	Expresso	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	01:58
Yorkville Avenue Band	Alexander's Ragtime Band	"Moving Day"	03:14
Hagood Hardy	Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas	The Christmas Album	02:53
The Brian Browne Trio	The Brian Browne Trio - Fair Weather	The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)	03:57
Carol McCartney	No More Blues	A Night in Tunisia	05:05
Lenny Breau	Secret Love	Minor's Aloud	05:10
Yorkville Avenue Band	Takin' Me Through the Night	"Moving Day"	03:31
Russ Little	Jive Samba	Slow Burn	06:06
Hagood Hardy	Rain, Rain	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:50
Don Gillis	Baby It's Alright	Baby It's Alright (featuring Moe Koffman (Toronto Flutist))	03:10
Peter Appleyard	This Masquerade	ST	03:01
Peter Appleyard	Tenderly	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:01
Johnny Cowell	The Eternal Flame	Our Winter Love	02:23
The Laurie Bower Singers	Everything Old is New Again	Looks Like We Made It	02:26
Johnny Cowell	Walk Hand in Hand	Our Winter Love	02:36
Guido Basso	Lush Life	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	06:26
Don Gillis	Beautiful	Baby It's Alright (featuring Moe Koffman (Toronto Flutist))	02:26
Lucio Agostini	St. Thomas	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	02:17
The Laurie Bower Singers	When I Need You	Looks Like We Made It	03:45
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Midnight Cowboy (John Barry)	Now!	04:55
Russ Little	Six Inch Spike	Footwork	06:05
Compilation	This Train	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	04:13
Ron Collier Tentet	Fair Wind	ST	02:49
John Arpin	Daniel	Direct to Disc	03:42
Johnny Cowell	Like No Other Girl	It's Gotta Be Love	02:21
Lenny Breau	A Taste of Honey	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	04:30
Russ Little	Along Came Betty	On the Shoulders of Giants	05:25
Guido Basso	Tequila	It's Happening (re-issue)	02:43
Doug Crosley	Why Does He Stay in My Mind (Babs Babineau, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	02:47
Hagood Hardy	Feelin' Good	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:14
Doug Crosley	Ever Haunted (Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	03:44
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Bass-ically Yours	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	05:19
Doug Randle	The Doug Randle Orchestra - Unchained Melody (Tommy Common, vocals)	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	02:51
Boogus	Roller Queen	CBC Comp 403 comp	03:11
Joyce Sullivan	I Could Write a Book	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	01:54
Tony Quarrington	Hi Lilly Hi Lo	One Bright Morning	06:03
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Angie Baby	Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎	02:43
Kathryn Moses	Prince Charming's Brother	ST	04:01
Rick Wilkins	Should I Love Again	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	04:35
Hagood Hardy	Maybe Tomorrow	Maybe Tomorrow	02:56
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Sailin' Home	Sailin' Home	04:15
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	The Pink Panther	The Old Meets the New	03:24
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Leave Me Alone Ruby Red Dress	Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎	03:43
Bill Butler	One Morning in May	The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler	03:11
Yorkville Avenue Band	Do it Again	"Moving Day"	03:27
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Too Late Now	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	05:59
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Cast Your Fate to the Wind	Montage	03:15
The Laurie Bower Singers	Come To Mother	Got a Feelin' for Love	02:54
Ben McPeek	Both Sides Now	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	03:07
Doug Riley	Dinosaurus	Freedom	04:44
Guido Basso	Love Talk	Love Talk	03:09
Johnny Cowell	Just One More Time	His Girl	02:15
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Eleanor Rigby	Do Something Nice Today!	02:44
Jerry Toth	Pieces Of Dreams	The Twelve Sides Of	02:36
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	The Getaway	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	06:27
Peter Appleyard	Witchcraft	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:08
Hagood Hardy	You and Me Against the World	The Homecoming	03:31
Fred Stone	Maera	The Music of Fred Stone	04:21
The Laurie Bower Singers	Boney Fingers	Back Home Again	02:26
Hogtown Trumpets	Ludwig's Bugle	CBC Comp 434 comp	03:14
Paul Hoffert	Grotto Walk	The Jazz Roots of	02:48
Rick Wilkins	Don't Ask Me Why	Discovery	03:04
Guido Basso	S'Wonderful	And All That Latin Jazz!	03:10
Terry Watada	Crying the Blues Away	Yellow Fever	04:46
Ron Collier Tentet	I Feel Pretty	ST	02:30
Jerry Toth	Peaceful	The Twelve Sides Of	02:55
Moe Koffman	Cantelope Island	Moe's Curried Soul	06:56
Moe Koffman	If I Were a Carpenter	Turned on	02:32
Terry Watada	Only for You	Night's Disgrace	03:45
Peter Appleyard	Strike Up the Band	The Vibe Sound Of	02:35
Ben McPeek	One Less Bell To Answer	Peace Train	03:26
Jerry Toth	I've Got My Eyes On You	The Music Of	02:42
Guido Basso	Waters of March (Antonio Carlos Jobim)	Lost in the Stars	05:25
Lucio Agostini	Hoedown	Action With Agostini	02:28
Bill Butler	Theme from "The Pathetique"	Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler	03:00
The Laurie Bower Singers	Hold On to a Little Bit of Love	Morning Has Broken	02:18
John Arpin	The Chevy Chase (1914)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:10
John Arpin	I Can't Depend On Love	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	03:07
Guido Basso	Some Other Time (Leonard Bernstein)	Lost in the Stars	04:57
Jimmy Namaro	St. Louis Blues Pachanga	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:30
Eugene Amaro	I Found My Love Last Summer	Warm	03:38
Paul Zaza	Fine and Dandy	Faces and Places	02:31
The Laurie Bower Singers	Minute To Minute	When You Say Goodbye	03:01
Bill Butler	A Portrait of a Piano	Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler	02:14
Don Thompson 'D.T.'	One Cylinder	Bluesprint	04:47
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Champagne and Quail	Halifax Instrumental	02:48
Johnny Cowell	W.A. Mozart - Allelujah (arranged by Johnny Cowell)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	02:38
Lucio Agostini	Sunwheel Dance (Bruce Cockburn)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	02:14
Ed Bickert	I'll Follow the Sun	I Like To Recognize the Tune	03:07
Sanderlings	Dreams & Wishes (Bob Ruzicka)	With The Jim Pirie Orchestra	03:01
Ben McPeek	Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!	His Voices and His Orchestra	02:17
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Oh Didn't He Ramble	Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read	02:36
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Bianca	Sailin' Home	04:37
Ed Bickert	Keeping Myself For You	Bye Bye Baby	06:14
Peter Appleyard	What I Did For Love	ST	02:57
Colina Phillips	River Jordan	Toronto Vocalist	03:05

The Toronto Jazz Scene

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

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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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