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.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Namaro, Jimmy	So Danco Samba	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:00
Laurie Bower Singers	I Go To Rio	It Goes Like It Goes	03:24
Breau, Lenny	But Beautiful	Mo' Breau	05:04
Agostini, Lucio	Little Chinook (Fred Diehl)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	02:03
Laurie Bower Singers	Rock With You	When You Say Goodbye	03:18
Hardy, Hagood	Joy to the World	The Christmas Album	03:03
Laurie Bower Singers	If You Feel	Got a Feelin' for Love	02:40
Hardy, Hagood	My Elusive Dreams	The Homecoming	02:45
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Chips & Gravy (Nimmons)	Now!	04:40
Wilkins, Rick	Sometimes When We Touch	For the Sake of Music	03:10
Laurie Bower Singers	Rita, Put Your Black Shoes On	Take Me Home Country Roads	02:19
Namaro, Jimmy	Carnival Brasiliero	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:03
Appleyard, Peter	Dragnet	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:11
Breau, Lenny	King of the Road	Guitar Sounds From	02:29
Cuesta, Henry	Proud Mary	Plays Favourites	02:47
Richardson, Jackie	Here's to Life	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	04:57
Crosley, Doug	In the Forest (Babs Babineau and Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	03:56
Laurie Bower Singers	Love and Maple Syrup (Gordon Lightfoot)	Love and Maple Syrup b/w Everybody's Reachin' Out for Someone	02:54
Hardy, Hagood	When Joanne Loved Me	Maybe Tomorrow	03:49
Appleyard, Peter	Lazy Silhouettes	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:54
Laurie Bower Singers	You Decorated My Life	When You Say Goodbye	03:38
Collier, Ron Tentet	Come Sunday	ST	03:02
Davidson, Jimmy 'Trump'	When Ragtime Alex Plays the Humoresque (vocal by Trump Davidson) (featuring Alexander "Ragtime" Read)	Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read	02:24
Hardy, Hagood	Cold on the Shoulder	The Homecoming	03:31
Namaro, Jimmy	Stranger in Paradise	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:43
Nimmons, Phil Group	Steve's Theme	Take 10	03:27
Toth, Jerry	It's a Great Life	Tell Me Now b/w It's a Great Life (with The Gossips)	02:08
Agostini, Lucio	Leah's Latin Lover (Lucio Agostini)	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	01:39
Thompson, Don 'D.T.'	Bossa Noto	Bluesprint	06:06
Hardy, Hagood	Workin' In L.A.	As Time Goes By	04:00
2B3	Doug Riley, Bill Payne - All About My Girl	The Toronto Sessions	05:09
Marshall, Herb	Never Can Say Goodbye (Clifton Davis)	Toronto Vocalist	01:53
Schofield, Pete & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Summer Love	Do Something Nice Today!	02:42
Cuesta, Henry	The Promised Land	Plays Favourites	02:07
Namaro, Jimmy	Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	02:38
Thompson, Don 'D.T.'	I Love You, Yes I Do	Bluesprint	03:40
Crosley, Doug	Somewhere, Sometime (Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	02:59
Collier, Ron Tentet	The Days of Wine And Roses	ST	02:39
Namaro, Jimmy	Afro-Rock	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:42
Schofield, Pete & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Eleanor Rigby	Do Something Nice Today!	02:44
Koffman, Moe	Growing Up	Tales of Koffman	03:30
Laurie Bower Singers	Come To Mother	Got a Feelin' for Love	02:54
Breau, Lenny	Killer Joe	Minor's Aloud	06:12
Agostini, Lucio	March Wind	Action With Agostini	03:19
Koffman, Moe	Flute Twist	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:10
Laurie Bower Singers	Boney Fingers	Back Home Again	02:26
Laurie Bower Singers	Do You Know	Got a Feelin' for Love	03:02
Breau, Lenny	I Remember Hank	Mo' Breau	05:18
Laurie Bower Singers	Back Home Again	Back Home Again	03:29
Agostini, Lucio	Taboo	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	02:15
Cowell, Johnny	Kornig - Post Horn Gallop (arranged by Johnny Cowell)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:46
Laurie Bower Singers	The Rose	Laurie Bower	03:31
Arpin, John	Dead Man Blues	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:04
Hardy, Hagood & the Montage	Travelling Down to Make it Town (Doug Riley)	ST	02:17
Arpin, John	I Can't Depend On Love	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	03:07
Dale, Jimmy	My Reverie	Profiles	03:57
Richardson, Jackie	The Lies of Handsome Men	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	04:58
Namaro, Jimmy	Despertar	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:10
Hardy, Hagood	I'll Take Love	Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning) b/w I'll Take Love	02:30
Nimmons, Phil Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six - Just Us, Just Fun, Just Kicks	Strictly Nimmons	03:38
Schofield, Pete and the Canadians	And I Love Her	The Old Meets the New	03:11
Koffman, Moe	Monks Monastery	Tales of Koffman	02:55
Breau, Lenny	Back In Indiana (Hanley & MacDonald)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	04:01
Schofield, Pete & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	If You Could Read My Mind	Do Something Nice Today!	02:26
Toth, Jerry	Peaceful	The Twelve Sides Of	02:55
Richardson, Jackie	I Alone	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	00:27
Agostini, Lucio	Que Sera Sera	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	02:01
Toth, Jerry	Tara's Theme .. Erich Traugott trumpet solo	The Classic Jerry Toth	02:21
Agostini, Lucio	Hoedown	Action With Agostini	02:28
Roderman, Teddy	That's Life	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	02:00
Thompson, Don 'D.T.'	Leave Them Alone (vocals Dianne Brooks)	Bluesprint	05:20
Appleyard, Peter	Donald's Duck	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:59
Zaza, Paul	Maid of the Mist	Images	02:58
Hardy, Hagood	Watching Through the Night	Maybe Tomorrow	03:40
Amaro, Eugene	Didn’t We	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	02:54
Nimmons, Phil Group	Who Walks	Nimmons 'N' Nine	05:16
Schofield, Pete and the Canadians	(Do You Know The Way To) San Jose	The Now Sound	03:05
Breau, Lenny	She Thinks I Still Care (Dickey Lee)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	04:23
Steel, Ivy	Don’t Explain	Reincarnation	04:26
Laurie Bower Singers	Kiss Me in the Rain	It Goes Like It Goes	04:01
Koffman, Moe	Trains and Boats and Planes	Goes Electric	02:48
Toth, Jerry	Tell Me Now	The Music Of	02:49
Hardy, Hagood	Never-Never Land	Stop 33 Sutton Place	03:00
Nimmons, Phil Group	A Spoonful of Sugar	Mary Popppins Swings	04:07
Randle, Doug	You´d be so Nice to Come Home to (Doug Crosley, vocalist)	Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists	02:18
Steel, Ivy	Easy Living	Reincarnation	05:03
Appleyard, Peter	The Man With The Golden Arm	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:39
Namaro, Jimmy	Body and Soul	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	03:19
Agostini, Lucio	Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	03:03
Amaro, Eugene	What's Goin' On	Twilight Time	03:38
Cuesta, Henry	Glamorous Night	Clarinet With Strings	02:22
Agostini, Lucio	Pastorale	Once Upon a Hundred Years	00:54
Burt, Johnny & His Orchestra	I Lived in a Dream	Halifax Instrumental	03:01
Koffman, Moe	Walk Away Renee	Turned on	02:27
Badgley, Bill	In the Arms of Love	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:34
Riccio, Pat	In To Miami (Barry)	From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)	02:15
Ambrose, Tommy	Time After Time	Young Tommy Ambrose	02:05
Dale, Jimmy	Wave	Soft and Groovy	02:43
Bostic, Cal	In Love Again	Introducing	03:08
Zaza, Paul	Portrait of a Rose	Faces and Places	02:47

The Toronto Jazz Scene

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

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Burt, Johnny & His Orchestra - ST

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Breau, Lenny - ST

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Namaro, Jimmy - We Gotta Get It All Together

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Badgley, Bill - Blue-Ribbon Badgley

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Badgley, Bill - At the Ports of Call

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Collier, Ron Tentet - ST

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Amaro, Eugene - Warm

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Agostini, Lucio - Action With Agostini

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Schofield, Pete and the Canadians - It’s a Sign of the Times

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Laurie Bower Singers - You

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Toth, Jerry - The Twelve Sides Of

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Hardy, Hagood & the Montage - ST

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Wilkins, Rick - From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)

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Hardy, Hagood - As Time Goes By

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Sanderlings - With The Jim Pirie Orchestra

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Hoffert, Paul - The Jazz Roots of

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Zaza, Paul - Faces and Places

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Namaro, Jimmy - With Mallets A 4 Thought

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Laurie Bower Singers - Take Me Home Country Roads

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Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six - Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64

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Randle, Doug - Songs for the New Industrial State

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Richardson, Jackie - Woman's View... Through Child Eyes

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Breau, Lenny - Minor's Aloud

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Dale, Jimmy - Toronto Instrumental

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Agostini, Lucio - Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini

Gillis, Don - Baby It's Alright (featuring Moe Koffman (Toronto Flutist))

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Nimmons, Phil Group - Take 10

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Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six - Transformations - Invocations

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Cowell, Johnny - Our Winter Love

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