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
Phil Nimmons Group Squeeze Play Take 10
Guido Basso Megantic Outlaw Put Your Hand in the Hand
Hagood Hardy And When I See You Smile, My Day Begins Maybe Tomorrow
Don Thompson 'D.T.' Bossa Noto Bluesprint
Peter Appleyard Ben The Lincolnshire Poacher
Johnny Cowell Concerto For Trumpet And Orchestra In D Major- Mvmt 2 Allegro The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six The Getaway Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64
Johnny Cowell Lonely Trumpet The Virtuoso Trumpet
Guido Basso Tara's Theme It's Happening
Paul Zaza Beautiful People Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)
The Laurie Bower Singers Guitar Man Wish I Was A Plane
Paul Zaza Expresso Coasting (with Isaacs)
Compilation Dave Young & Oscar Peterson - OP&D Jazz Toronto
Moe Koffman Sahara Tales of Koffman
Hagood Hardy & the Montage How Insensitive Montage
Ben McPeek For Lovin Me The Original Sounds of
Don Thompson 'D.T.' Leave Them Alone (vocals Dianne Brooks) Bluesprint
Paul Zaza Sailing By Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)
Johnny Cowell Marcella It's Gotta Be Love
Bill Badgley Georgy Girl At the Ports of Call
Doug Randle One Way Swimming Songs for the New Industrial State
Jimmy Namaro We Gotta Get it All Together We Gotta Get It All Together
Peter Appleyard Night Journey Peter Appleyard Presents
Doug Randle London by Night (Doug Crosley, vocalist) Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists
Joyce Sullivan Love (Can Be a Moment's Sadness) The Songs of Joyce Sullivan
Guido Basso Suite P.E.I. Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert
The Mutual Understanding Summer of '42 Show Me Your Laughter/ Summer of '42 // Sunshine Man/ If You Say Goodbye
Lucio Agostini Chuck Wagon Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Guido Basso Goofus It's Happening
Compilation This Train Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose? Do Something Nice Today!
Paul Zaza Autumn Reflections Images
Alex Read & His Tin Pan Alley Cats Waltz Medley (Bicycle Built for Two - Sidewalks of New York - Take Me Out to the Ball Game) (arr. Read) From CBC Toronto (split with Pat Riccio Orchestra (LM 09)
Colina Phillips Trying Times Toronto Vocalist
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith Espresso Sailin' Home
Guido Basso For Awhile Love Talk
Paul Zaza Follow the Sun Faces and Places
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith Blue Jade Sailin' Home
The Laurie Bower Singers Penny Lane Feelin'
Johnny Cowell I Have the Pleasure Hot Brass
Jerry Toth Heather My Love The Twelve Sides Of
Paul Zaza Guitarra Rhumba Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)
Doug Randle Martin of Her Mind Songs for the New Industrial State
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Midnight Cowboy (John Barry) Now!
Guido Basso Waters of March (Antonio Carlos Jobim) Lost in the Stars
John Arpin Beautiful Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot
Lenny Breau Music to Watch Girls By Guitar Sounds From
The Laurie Bower Singers Everybody's Reachin' Out for Someone Love and Maple Syrup b/w Everybody's Reachin' Out for Someone
Ben McPeek Downtown His Voices and His Orchestra
Jackie Richardson Child Eyes Part 1 - A Woman's View Woman's View... Through Child Eyes
Paul Hoffert Grotto Walk The Jazz Roots of
Phil Nimmons Group Chim chim cheree Mary Popppins Swings
Jerry Toth To Wait for Love The Music Of
Peter Appleyard Tenderly Per-cus-sive Jazz
Ben McPeek That Old Black Magic The Original Sounds of
Eugene Amaro I Just Fall In Love Again Warm
Doug Crosley Ever Haunted (Doug Crosley, vocals) Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)
Bill Butler Canadian Sunset Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler
Norman Amadio Trio Hallelujah ST
Peter Appleyard Sophisticated Lady ST
Pat Riccio Matchmaker (Bock-Harnick) Doug Crosley: vocals From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)
Guido Basso White Christmas Christmas Today
Lucio Agostini Dundurn Castle Once Upon a Hundred Years
Jimmy Dale Baubles, Bangles and Beads Profiles
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' Wise Guys + Horn = Dixie
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Shuffle Boogie, Swamp, Groove Blue Toronto Instrumental
The Brian Browne Trio The Brian Browne Trio - Cast Your Fate The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)
2B3 Denis Keldie, Bill Payne - Life is a Carnival The Toronto Sessions
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Scarborough Fair The Now Sound
Johnny Cowell Kornig - Garden Horn Gallop (arranged by Johnny Cowell) The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
2B3 Rob Gusevs, Michael Fonfara - Apricot Brandy The Toronto Sessions
The Laurie Bower Singers Cotton Jenny Morning Has Broken
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra Where or When Trombone - Teddy Roderman
The Laurie Bower Singers Papa Joe Wish I Was A Plane
Jerry Toth Tell Me Now Tell Me Now b/w It's a Great Life (with The Gossips)
Ben McPeek Goodbye If Only We Could See b/w Goodbye
Eugene Amaro Midnight Blue Twilight Time
Lucio Agostini Guadalajara Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini
Ben McPeek Undun Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene
Peter Appleyard Harlem Nocturne Per-cus-sive Jazz
Rick Wilkins Just The Way You Are For the Sake of Music
Moe Koffman House of Green Lights Tales of Koffman
Vic Centro Sextet The Moon Was Yellow ST
Henry Cuesta Lonely is the Name Clarinet With Strings
Rick Wilkins Déjà vu Discovery
Boogus Gemini Rag CBC Comp 403 comp
The Laurie Bower Singers Something is Happening Feelin'
Lucio Agostini Golden Earrings Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini
Robert Tennison Troupe Watch Me Now (Hear Me Now) Watch Me Now (Hear Me Now) b/w I Can See (Instrumental)
Johnny Cowell Pretty Girl Our Winter Love
Jackie Richardson Please Woman's View... Through Child Eyes
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty Killing Me Softly (With His Song) Do Something Nice Today!
Don Gillis Lady Death Baby It's Alright (featuring Moe Koffman (Toronto Flutist))
Bill Badgley If You Leave Me Now Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky
John Arpin The Chevy Chase (1914) Other Side Of Ragtime
The Laurie Bower Singers I Think It's Gonna Rain on Me Today Take Me Home Country Roads
Moe Koffman Dance Of The Leaves (Allegro) The Four Seasons
Doug Randle Put On Your Sunday Clothes Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists
Jimmy Namaro St. Louis Blues Pachanga Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra
Herb Marshall Get Out of My Life Woman (Allen Toussaint) Toronto Vocalist

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Rick Wilkins - My Heart Belongs to Me

Hamilton - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

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Ron Collier Tentet - ST

Coleman, Alberta → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

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

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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, 🇨🇦

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Ed Bickert - ST

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

FEATURED

Ed Bickert - Bye Bye Baby

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

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Ed Bickert - I Like To Recognize the Tune

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

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The Brian Browne Trio - The Toronto Scene

Montréal, Québec→Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Brian Browne Trio - Toronto Instrumental

Montréal, Québec→Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

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Yorkville Avenue Band - "Moving Day"

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ben McPeek - Thinking of You

Trail, British Columbia → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jimmy Namaro - Driftwood

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

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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, 🇨🇦

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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, 🇨🇦

My Heart Belongs to Me

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

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