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
Paul Zaza Wonderman Faces and Places
Ivy Steel Travelling Light Reincarnation
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith Blue Jade Sailin' Home
Rick Wilkins The Closer I Get To You For the Sake of Music
Lucio Agostini Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass
Denny Vaughan Moonlight Rendezvous A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"
Hagood Hardy Watching Through the Night Maybe Tomorrow
Jimmy Namaro Jimmy Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra
Johnny Cowell Anatomy of a Girl It's Gotta Be Love
The Laurie Bower Singers If You Feel The Way I Do The Rose And The Rain
2B3 Doug Riley, Bill Payne - All About My Girl The Toronto Sessions
Ed Bickert Skylark I Like To Recognize the Tune
Guido Basso Lush Life A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)
Ivy Steel Prelude to a Kiss Reincarnation
Jimmy Namaro Nightingale Driftwood
Jimmy Dale Where Is the Love? Toronto Instrumental
Guido Basso A Lazy Afternoon A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)
Teddy Roderman Beautiful Second Hand Man Makin' It With You
Compilation Meditation (arranged by Ray Sikora) Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical
Hagood Hardy & the Montage Come Saturday Morning Montage
Phil Nimmons Group Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six - Just Us, Just Fun, Just Kicks Strictly Nimmons
Ivy Steel Easy Living Reincarnation
Lucio Agostini Once Upon a Hundred Years (Theme) Once Upon a Hundred Years
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six This Guy's In Love With You (Bacharach-David) Now!
Johnny Cowell I Can't Get Started (Al Hirt & Bunny Berigan) The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
2B3 Michael Fonfara, Rob Gusevs - Burnin' at the Stake The Toronto Sessions
Denny Vaughan The French Song A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"
Bill Butler A Portrait of a Piano Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler
Guido Basso Canada It's Happening (re-issue)
The Laurie Bower Singers Think Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....
The Laurie Bower Singers Just a Little Song Back Home Again
Ivy Steel What a Little Moonlight Can Do Reincarnation
Compilation Bill Badgley - Walk On By Motorcars In Concert 1970
Doug Crosley Something (George Harrison) With Lucio Agostini and his Orchestra
Henry Cuesta The Things I Love Clarinet With Strings
The Mutual Understanding I'm Old Fashioned In Wonderland
Hagood Hardy Misty Reflections
Paul Zaza Spring Song Faces and Places
Eugene Amaro Girl From Ipanema The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)
Hagood Hardy Winter Time The Christmas Album
Rick Wilkins Somewhere Along the Way My Heart Belongs to Me
Jerry Toth Portrait of Caroline The Classic Jerry Toth
Compilation Norma Locke - I Need You So 1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind
The Laurie Bower Singers Evergreen Looks Like We Made It
Eugene Amaro On Days Like These The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Exactly Like Jerry Smith Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64
Lucio Agostini Pedro Pussycat Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini
Knights of the Round Flugel Toot-Suite (Grosney) Bye Bye Love
Johnny Cowell A Season For My Love His Girl
Jimmy Namaro Climax We Gotta Get It All Together
Johnny Cowell Summertime Sunshine Hot Brass
Peter Appleyard There Will Never Be Another You Per-cus-sive Jazz
Hagood Hardy Folks Who Live on the Hill Stop 33 Sutton Place
Ben McPeek Charade His Voices and His Orchestra
Norman Amadio Trio Frenesi ST
Eugene Amaro Am I Blue Twilight Time
Compilation One of Those Songs (arranged by Howard Cable) Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical
The Laurie Bower Singers Thorn In My Shoe Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six One 'O' Nine Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64
Johnny Cowell It's Gotta be Love It's Gotta Be Love
Jimmy Namaro Call Me Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra
Pat Riccio Watermelon Man (Hancock) From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)
Johnny Cowell Blood of the Brave Bull The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Lucio Agostini Heart of Gold (Neil Young) Toronto Composer / Arranger
Doug Randle The Doug Randle Orchestra - Fanny Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)
The Laurie Bower Singers Theme from Chariots of Fire - Race to the End Laurie Bower
Eugene Amaro More Than You Know Twilight Time
The Laurie Bower Singers Fool That I Am It Goes Like It Goes
Jerry Toth One (from a Chorus Line) The Classic Jerry Toth
Teddy Roderman A Gliss to Build a Gleam On Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones
Guido Basso East of the Sun One More for the Road
Paul Hoffert Growing Up The Jazz Roots of
Compilation This Train Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?
Hagood Hardy & the Montage The Garden Path Montage
Denny Vaughan Medley : Heigh Ho / Whistle While You Work Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By
Rick Wilkins Just The Way You Are For the Sake of Music
Bill Badgley Sand and Sea Blue-Ribbon Badgley
Guido Basso You're Nearer One More for the Road
Compilation Lizzie Simcoe Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?
Bill Butler Spring Will be a Little Late This Year The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler
Paul Zaza Sun Ranch Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)
Eugene Amaro Midnight Blue Twilight Time
Lucio Agostini Pan Am Young and Old Once Upon a Hundred Years
Hagood Hardy A Time for Us As Time Goes By
Moe Koffman Twist the Hully Gully Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens
Eugene Amaro I Didn't Know What Time It Was Warm
Moe Koffman Le Reveil (Largo) The Four Seasons
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Yes It's Toronto Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎
Hogtown Trumpets Back Bacon Blues CBC Comp 434 comp
Hagood Hardy Rain, Rain Stop 33 Sutton Place
Ed Bickert Where Are You ST
Jackie Richardson My Baby Woman's View... Through Child Eyes
Bill Butler June in January The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler
Hagood Hardy & the Montage If I Could ST
Carol McCartney Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye A Night in Tunisia
Guido Basso Don't Know Why (Jesse Harris) Lost in the Stars
Hagood Hardy Afternoon in Venice Maybe Tomorrow
Ben McPeek Alouette The Original Sounds of
Joyce Sullivan Grandfather's Clock The Songs of Joyce Sullivan
Ron Collier Tentet Walking Out ST

Compilation

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"

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