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
Ron Collier Orchestra & Duke Ellington	Nameless Hour	Duke Ellington: "North of the Border" in Canada	09:21
Lenny Breau	Claude (Free Song)	ST	11:01
Ben McPeek	Every Bit of Love	Thinking of You	02:28
John Arpin	The Last Time I Saw Her Face	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	03:09
Jimmy Namaro	We Could Make Such Beautiful Music	Y' Gotta Quit Swingin' // We Could Make Such Beautiful Music	02:55
Lenny Breau	Long Way To Go	Minor's Aloud	04:32
The Laurie Bower Singers	Theme from Ice Castles - Through the Eyes of Love	Laurie Bower	03:38
Phil Nimmons Group	The Perfect Nanny	Mary Popppins Swings	04:06
Bill Badgley	Lady	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:00
Hagood Hardy	Rain, Rain	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:50
Lucio Agostini	Sulkey Race	Action With Agostini	02:55
John Arpin	The Most Beautiful Girl in the World	Direct to Disc	02:57
Jimmy Dale	Beautiful	Toronto Instrumental	02:29
Paul Zaza	Wonderman	Faces and Places	02:27
Carol McCartney	Jersey Bounce	A Night in Tunisia	04:40
Paul Hoffert	With a Wiggle	The Jazz Roots of	06:29
Ed Bickert	Pensativa	Bye Bye Baby	04:46
Jimmy Dale	Could it be Magic	Profiles	02:45
Peter Appleyard	Flamingo	The Vibraphone Of	02:36
Denny Vaughan	Then I'll Be Happy	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:42
The Laurie Bower Singers	If You Feel The Way I Do	The Rose And The Rain	02:40
Johnny Cowell	Angel of the Morning	The Tender Loving Care	02:55
Hagood Hardy	Cold on the Shoulder	The Homecoming	03:31
Jimmy Namaro	Love	With Mallets A 4 Thought	03:21
Swing Sisters	Davenport Blues	Davenport Blues	03:20
Peter Appleyard	Open the Gates of Love	Peter Appleyard Presents	04:00
Compilation	Pat LaBarbera - Virgo Dance	Jazz Toronto	06:30
Jimmy Dale	Guanabara	Soft and Groovy	02:42
Compilation	On a Wonderful Day Like Today (arranged by Howard Cable)	Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical	02:19
John Arpin	Tickled to Death	Concert In Ragtime	01:57
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
The Laurie Bower Singers	Theme from Chariots of Fire - Race to the End	Laurie Bower	02:42
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Lenny Breau	Back In Indiana (Hanley & MacDonald)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	04:01
Peter Appleyard	Sophisticated Lady	ST	02:42
Guido Basso	'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk)	Lost in the Stars	03:45
Doug Randle	Colored Plastics	Songs for the New Industrial State	03:43
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	All in the Family	Toronto Instrumental	02:34
Jimmy Dale	All By Myself	Profiles	03:41
Johnny Cowell	High on a Flagpole	It's Gotta Be Love	02:40
Peter Appleyard	Wave	The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)	02:27
Joyce Sullivan	Grandfather's Clock	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	02:33
Jimmy Dale	Sun Goes By	Toronto Instrumental	03:21
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia	Do Something Nice Today!	02:25
Hagood Hardy	White Christmas	The Christmas Album	04:09
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	I'll be Waiting	Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎	03:05
Ed Bickert	Things Are Getting Better	Bye Bye Baby	04:34
Johnny Cowell	Dreams Of A Lonely Man	His Girl	02:06
Vic Centro Sextet	Moonlight Serenade	ST	02:17
Compilation	Bernie Senensky - New Life Blues	Jazz Toronto	06:28
Johnny Cowell	Valley of the Six Hundred	It's Gotta Be Love	02:06
Phil Nimmons Group	In a Mellotone	Take 10	06:49
2B3	Doug Riley, Bill Payne - All About My Girl	The Toronto Sessions	05:09
Ben McPeek	Yorkville Yak	The Original Sounds of	01:47
Lucio Agostini	Watch What Happens	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	02:29
Guido Basso	Last Night When We Were Young	One More for the Road	04:58
Doug Crosley	Ever Haunted (Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	03:44
Johnny Cowell	Every Single Day	The Tender Loving Care	02:32
Ben McPeek	Only God Knows	Only God Knows b/w Keyboard Grease	02:39
Johnny Cowell	Oops	His Girl	01:47
Ed Bickert	Sunday Kind of Love	I Like To Recognize the Tune	03:36
Lenny Breau	Marlborough Street	Mo' Breau	02:06
Jimmy Namaro	Nightingale	Driftwood	03:05
The Laurie Bower Singers	Rain Brings People Together	Wish I Was A Plane	03:12
Doug Crosley	Sing a Happy Song (Babs Babineau, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	04:01
Wally Koster	Time Was	The Songs of Wally Koster	02:19
Peter Appleyard	Sleep	The Vibraphone Of	01:56
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra	It's Delovely	And I Love Her	02:19
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Knock Three Times	Do Something Nice Today!	02:32
Phil Nimmons Group	Chim chim cheree	Mary Popppins Swings	03:55
The Laurie Bower Singers	Love and Maple Syrup	Take Me Home Country Roads	03:15
Jimmy Namaro	Late Late Blues	With Mallets A 4 Thought	03:30
Jackie Richardson	I Like Your Company - Old Friends	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	04:32
Peter Appleyard	The Blue Room	The Vibe Sound Of	02:35
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Goin' Out Of My Head	The Now Sound	03:29
The Brian Browne Trio	The Brian Browne Trio - Fair Weather	The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)	03:57
The Laurie Bower Singers	Tell No Lies	You	03:31
Eugene Amaro	Ruby	Warm	03:08
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Come Saturday Morning (Previn/Karlin)	ST	02:18
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra	A Summer Place	And I Love Her	02:36
Ben McPeek	Imagine	Peace Train	02:59
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	I Told You So	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	07:28
Jimmy Dale	Where Is the Love?	Toronto Instrumental	02:49
Hogtown Trumpets	Ludwig's Bugle	CBC Comp 434 comp	03:14
Ben McPeek	Talk It Over In The Morning	Peace Train	02:21
Denny Vaughan	(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay	Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra	03:03
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	I Lived in a Dream	Halifax Instrumental	03:01
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Hey Jude (Lennon-McCartney)	Now!	05:04
Hagood Hardy	Words	Maybe Tomorrow	03:04
Moe Koffman	Overture To Spring (Allegro)	The Four Seasons	03:49
The Laurie Bower Singers	Everything Old is New Again	Looks Like We Made It	02:26
The Laurie Bower Singers	Battle Of New Orleans	Wish I Was A Plane	02:54
Hagood Hardy	I Feel It	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:24
Rick Wilkins	Len's Den	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	04:33
Lenny Breau	Compared To What	Minor's Aloud	04:44
Compilation	Brian Dickinson - Alone Together	Jazz Toronto	04:52
Compilation	Bill Badgley - Walk On By	Motorcars In Concert 1970	02:21
Peter Appleyard	The Last Blues Song	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:40
Hagood Hardy	Will You Still be Mine?	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:13
John Arpin	Bethena	Concert In Ragtime	05:56

The Toronto Jazz Scene

Tracks

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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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Denny Vaughan - Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra

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Denny Vaughan - A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"

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Denny Vaughan - Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By

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Ron Collier Orchestra & Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington: "North of the Border" in Canada

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Ron Collier Tentet - ST

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

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Joyce Sullivan - The Songs of Joyce Sullivan

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Johnny Cowell - His Girl

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Ed Bickert - ST

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Ed Bickert - Bye Bye Baby

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Ed Bickert - I Like To Recognize the Tune

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The Brian Browne Trio - The Toronto Scene

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