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
Paul Zaza	Foxy Lady	Coasting (with Isaacs)	02:54
Doug Randle	Out of this World (Elan Stuart, vocalist)	Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists	04:00
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra	I Enjoy Being a Girl	And I Love Her	02:07
Colina Phillips	Never Had it So Good	Toronto Vocalist	03:23
Moe Koffman	High Heeled Sneakers	Moe's Curried Soul	03:49
Compilation	Billy Van - Kiss The Wind	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	03:18
Compilation	Ben McPeek - Kapuskasing Kaper	Motorcars In Concert 1970	02:57
Carol McCartney	No More Blues	A Night in Tunisia	05:05
The Laurie Bower Singers	September Morn	When You Say Goodbye	03:39
Jerry Toth	The Worst That Could Happen	The Music Of	02:34
Guido Basso	Christina	And All That Latin Jazz!	02:44
Jimmy Namaro	Lonely One	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	02:46
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Blues for Someone Else	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	05:51
Hagood Hardy	Never-Never Land	Stop 33 Sutton Place	03:00
Robert Tennison Troupe	Watch Me Now (Hear Me Now)	Watch Me Now (Hear Me Now) b/w I Can See (Instrumental)	02:51
The Laurie Bower Singers	You're The One That I Want	You	02:44
Jim O'Driscoll	What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life	I Don't Know How to Love Him b/w What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life	02:56
Henry Cuesta	Lonely is the Name	Clarinet With Strings	03:00
Ben McPeek	Laughing	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	02:25
Peter Appleyard	Conversation	The Vibraphone Of	02:31
Knights of the Round Flugel	Your Cheating Heart (Hank Williams)	Bye Bye Love	02:32
Lucio Agostini	Up, Up and a Bull	Once Upon a Hundred Years	02:22
Doug Randle	The Doug Randle Orchestra - Jennine	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	02:28
The Brian Browne Trio	Killing Me Softly	Toronto Instrumental	02:20
Bill Badgley	Aubrey	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	02:34
Moe Koffman	Windy	Turned on	02:35
Doug Randle	You´d be so Nice to Come Home to (Doug Crosley, vocalist)	Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists	02:18
Russ Little	Six Inch Spike	Footwork	06:05
Hagood Hardy	I Feel It	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:24
Paul Zaza	Dancing Lights	Faces and Places	02:16
Ben McPeek	Colonel Bogey	The Original Sounds of	02:43
Guido Basso	Martelli	And All That Latin Jazz!	02:35
Johnny Cowell	Marcella's Waltz	His Girl	02:10
The Brian Browne Trio	The Brian Browne Trio - Fair Weather	The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)	03:57
Peter Appleyard	Harlem Nocturne	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:31
Ben McPeek	Someday Soon	The Original Sounds of	01:53
Vic Centro Sextet	End of a Love Affair	ST	02:09
Hagood Hardy	I'll Take Love	Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning) b/w I'll Take Love	02:30
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Watermelon Man	The Now Sound	03:03
The Laurie Bower Singers	You Are What I Am	Wish I Was A Plane	02:23
Peter Appleyard	You Put the Shine on Me	Peter Appleyard Presents	03:16
Guido Basso	Yesterday When I Was Young (live) (Charles Aznavour)	Lost in the Stars	04:51
The Laurie Bower Singers	Wedding Cake	Feelin'	02:21
Jerry Toth	I Am In Love	The Twelve Sides Of	03:24
Denny Vaughan	Let a Smile be Your Umbrella	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:51
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Voices of Spring	Reminiscing: Featuring Teddy Roderman, trombonist	02:09
Henry Cuesta	Singin' My Song	Plays Favourites	02:23
Paul Zaza	Peace River	Images	02:46
Lenny Breau	Long Way To Go	Minor's Aloud	04:32
Doug Crosley	For All We Know	With Lucio Agostini and his Orchestra	02:49
The Laurie Bower Singers	Southern Nights	Looks Like We Made It	02:57
Johnny Cowell	Blood of the Brave Bull	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	02:12
Teddy Roderman	Stay Awhile (Ken Tobias)	Stay Awhile	02:58
Ben McPeek	When I'm 64	Thinking of You	02:45
Johnny Cowell	Genevieve	The Tender Loving Care	02:11
Terry Watada	The Hawk (Reprise)	Night's Disgrace	02:08
Hagood Hardy	I'll Remember You	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:10
Guido Basso	Lost in the Stars (Kurt Weill)	Lost in the Stars	06:08
The Laurie Bower Singers	Could I Have This Dance	It Goes Like It Goes	03:12
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Old Fashioned Way	Toronto Instrumental	02:42
The Laurie Bower Singers	How The Singers Sing	Morning Has Broken	03:06
Henry Cuesta	Skyline Stomp	Plays Favourites	02:08
Jimmy Namaro	Over the Rainbow	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:28
The Laurie Bower Singers	Country Comfort	Take Me Home Country Roads	02:56
John Arpin	Augustan Club Waltzes (1901)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:45
John Arpin	The Last Time I Saw Her Face	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	03:09
Compilation	Phil Nimmons Quartet - There is No Greater Love	CBC Comp 409	02:50
The Laurie Bower Singers	Love to the People	Looks Like We Made It	02:58
Johnny Cowell	Lonely Trumpet	The Virtuoso Trumpet	03:06
Peter Appleyard	Hells Bells	The Vibraphone Of	01:46
Jimmy Dale	Music To Watch Girls By	Soft and Groovy	03:09
The Laurie Bower Singers	Didn't We?	Feelin'	01:59
Jimmy Dale	Touch Her Soft Lips	Profiles	02:48
Jerry Toth	Pieces Of Dreams	The Twelve Sides Of	02:36
The Laurie Bower Singers	Looks Like We Made It	Looks Like We Made It	03:39
Terry Watada	Yellow Fever	Yellow Fever	03:59
Moe Koffman	Doxy	The Shepherd Swings Again	03:44
2B3	Doug Riley, Michael Fonfara - Steel Onions	The Toronto Sessions	05:39
Rick Wilkins	Ballad for Carolyn	My Heart Belongs to Me	03:48
Johnny Cowell	I've Gotta Feeling	Hot Brass	01:49
Pat Riccio	Stranger on the Shore (Bilk-Mellin)	From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)	02:23
Jackie Richardson	Finer Wine	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	01:07
Hagood Hardy	Let Me Love Again	As Time Goes By	03:52
Bill Butler	18th Variation from Rapsodie on a Theme of Paganini (Theme from "A Story of Three Loves")	Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler	02:38
Paul Zaza	Fiesta Flamenco	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	02:23
Peter Appleyard	Undecided	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:24
Guido Basso	Windmills of Your Mind	And All That Latin Jazz!	02:38
Johnny Cowell	Sangre De Toro Bravo	The Virtuoso Trumpet	03:28
Phil Nimmons Group	The Life I Lead	Mary Popppins Swings	07:00
Denny Vaughan	Hayseedelic	Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra	02:12
Paul Zaza	Blue Lagoon	Images	02:33
Bill Badgley	Amanda	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	03:05
Teddy Roderman	Feelin' Kinda Sunday	Makin' It With You	02:14
The Laurie Bower Singers	Sweet Ginger Bread Man	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	02:52
Peter Appleyard	Swinging Shepherd Blues	Peter Appleyard Presents	03:35
Ben McPeek	Talk It Over In The Morning	Peace Train	02:21
Jimmy Dale	The Look Of Love	Soft and Groovy	03:21
Guido Basso	Noelle	Love Talk	02:56
Guido Basso	Bye Bye Blues	One More for the Road	03:12
Johnny Cowell	Valley of the Six Hundred	It's Gotta Be Love	02:06

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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