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
Don Thompson 'D.T.'	I Love You, Yes I Do	Bluesprint	03:40
Tommy Ambrose	This Song Is Ended	Young Tommy Ambrose	02:18
Compilation	Snowmen	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	03:58
Johnny Cowell	Oops	His Girl	01:47
Doug Crosley	Pisces Child (Dolores Claman)	With Lucio Agostini and his Orchestra	02:32
Peter Appleyard	Harlem Nocturne	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:31
Peter Appleyard	Apres Toi	The Lincolnshire Poacher	03:58
Hagood Hardy	Will You Still be Mine?	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:13
Denny Vaughan	Theme from "The Killer of Kildonan"	A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"	02:53
Jimmy Namaro	Blues for Fives	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	03:22
Compilation	Fifes and Feathers	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	04:54
Kathryn Moses	Ready or Not	ST	03:39
Jerry Toth	Tell Me Now	Tell Me Now b/w It's a Great Life (with The Gossips)	02:50
Jerry Toth	The Moth .. Peter Appleyard vibes solo	The Classic Jerry Toth	02:45
Guido Basso	Tour de Force (live) (Dizzy Gillespie)	Lost in the Stars	06:42
Lucio Agostini	The Girls of Spain	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	02:28
Alex Read & His Tin Pan Alley Cats	Dolly Medley (Herman)	From CBC Toronto (split with Pat Riccio Orchestra (LM 09)	03:11
Peter Appleyard	Spanish Pearls	The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)	02:07
Compilation	Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass - The Duke	Jazz Toronto	04:00
Lenny Breau	She Thinks I Still Care (Dickey Lee)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	04:23
Bill Badgley	Mesclado (MYXAPYKL)	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	02:10
Peter Appleyard	Rock's Push	Toronto Instrumental	02:16
Phil Nimmons Group	On the Autobahn	Take 10	06:55
Wally Koster	Alberta Trail	Alberta Trail b/w Sunset Waltz	03:33
The Brian Browne Trio	Georgia on My Mind	The Toronto Scene	05:38
Phil Nimmons Group	Kicks	Nimmons 'N' Nine	00:29
Hagood Hardy	Joy, Joy	The Christmas Album	01:24
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	All in the Family	Toronto Instrumental	02:34
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Song of the Tropics	ST	03:17
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Delta Dawn	Do Something Nice Today!	02:35
Ben McPeek	Gypsies, Tramps And Thieves	Peace Train	02:47
Lucio Agostini	Coastin'	Action With Agostini	02:40
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Espresso	Sailin' Home	05:30
Compilation	Phil Nimmons Quartet - Stompin' at the Savoy	CBC Comp 409	02:41
John Arpin	Beautiful	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	03:16
Moe Koffman	The Calm (Adagio)	The Four Seasons	01:59
Jimmy Dale	Guanabara	Soft and Groovy	02:42
Doug Riley	Theme for Adele	Freedom	07:05
Johnny Cowell	Air On a G String	The Virtuoso Trumpet	03:15
Tommy Ambrose	You're Driving Me Crazy	Young Tommy Ambrose	01:54
Yorkville Avenue Band	All of You	"Moving Day"	03:22
Guido Basso	Love Talk	Love Talk	03:09
Guido Basso	Do You Hear What I Hear?	Christmas Today	02:53
Hagood Hardy	Just the Way You Are	Reflections	04:01
Paul Zaza	Portrait of a Rose	Faces and Places	02:47
John Arpin	Tickled to Death	Concert In Ragtime	01:57
Denny Vaughan	Wake Up	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:08
Terry Watada	Only Dreams	Night's Disgrace	04:47
Moe Koffman	Goin' Out of My Head	Turned on	02:20
Moe Koffman	Do You Know the Way to San Jose	Turned on	02:32
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Johnny Cowell	Shag	Our Winter Love	01:57
Peter Appleyard	Lazy Silhouettes	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:54
Tony Quarrington	You Stepped Out of a Drink	One Bright Morning	07:49
Lucio Agostini	The Partisan (Marley - Zaret)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	02:38
Guido Basso	Yesterday When I Was Young (live) (Charles Aznavour)	Lost in the Stars	04:51
Jimmy Namaro	Stranger in Paradise	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:43
Phil Nimmons Group	Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious	Mary Popppins Swings	03:08
Ben McPeek	Downtown	His Voices and His Orchestra	03:00
Joyce Sullivan	Love (Can Be a Moment's Sadness)	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	01:28
Guido Basso	East of the Sun	One More for the Road	07:21
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Lip Flap (For Fred)	Now!	03:48
Jimmy Namaro	Climax	We Gotta Get It All Together	03:24
Moe Koffman	Bermuda Schwartz	The Shepherd Swings Again	03:47
Kathryn Moses	I Met a Special Man	ST	02:06
Hagood Hardy	The Trouble with Hello is Goodbye	The Homecoming	03:51
The Laurie Bower Singers	Do You Think I'd Call It Love	When You Say Goodbye	03:00
Hogtown Trumpets	Ludwig's Bugle	CBC Comp 434 comp	03:14
Lucio Agostini	Jesusita en Chihuahua (Cactus Polka)	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	02:20
Guido Basso	Bye Bye Blues	One More for the Road	03:12
The Laurie Bower Singers	Penny Lane	Feelin'	02:56
The Laurie Bower Singers	Everybody's Reachin' Out for Someone	Love and Maple Syrup b/w Everybody's Reachin' Out for Someone	02:37
Guido Basso	The Continental (Con Conrad)	Lost in the Stars	06:00
Lenny Breau	Bluesette	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	05:46
Terry Watada	If I Sing the Blues	Night's Disgrace	03:58
Guido Basso	Lost in the Stars (Kurt Weill)	Lost in the Stars	06:08
Ben McPeek	American Woman	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	03:37
Doug Randle	Isn't it a Pity	Songs for the New Industrial State	03:18
Bill Badgley	Aubrey	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	02:34
Hagood Hardy	Jingle Bells	The Christmas Album	02:07
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Transformations: 2nd movement	Transformations - Invocations	07:39
Ed Bickert	I'll Follow the Sun	I Like To Recognize the Tune	03:07
Peter Appleyard	China Boy (To Sleep)	The Vibraphone Of	02:34
Paul Zaza	Dancing Lights	Faces and Places	02:16
Compilation	Ted Komar - My Beloved	CBC Comp 409	02:26
The Laurie Bower Singers	Mississippi	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:00
Peter Appleyard	Tico Tico	ST	02:25
Eugene Amaro	Midnight Blue	Twilight Time	02:53
Bill Badgley	Fernando	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	03:39
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Mirage	ST	03:56
Paul Zaza	Maid of the Mist	Images	02:58
Moe Koffman	Swinging' Shepherd Blues Twist	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	01:58
Paul Zaza	For Julia	Coasting (with Isaacs)	03:22
Herb Marshall	Get Out of My Life Woman (Allen Toussaint)	Toronto Vocalist	03:00
The Laurie Bower Singers	Evergreen	Looks Like We Made It	03:27
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Blues Blow (Straight Ahead!)	Now!	04:46
Johnny Cowell	Je reviens (I'm Coming Back)	Hot Brass	02:32
Ivy Steel	Now or Never	Reincarnation	02:35
Ron Collier Tentet	Walking Out	ST	02:28
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra	Fly Me to the Moon	And I Love Her	02:32

The Toronto Jazz Scene

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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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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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