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	Beautiful People	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	02:30
Paul Zaza	Mellow Moments	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	03:11
Knights of the Round Flugel	Toot-Suite (Grosney)	Bye Bye Love	03:02
Lucio Agostini	Help Yourself	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	02:22
Jimmy Namaro	On a Little Street in Singapore	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:47
The Laurie Bower Singers	Too Much Is On The Line	When You Say Goodbye	03:49
Jackie Richardson	Here's to Life	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	04:57
Peter Appleyard	Cinderella Rockefeller	The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)	02:19
Phil Nimmons Group	Last Night When We Were Young	Take 10	04:29
John Arpin	Cabaret	Direct to Disc	02:28
Lucio Agostini	Cocktails In New York	Once Upon a Hundred Years	01:09
Hagood Hardy	Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas	The Christmas Album	02:53
Johnny Cowell	Shag	Our Winter Love	01:57
Ben McPeek	For Lovin Me	The Original Sounds of	01:52
Ben McPeek	A Taste of Honey	His Voices and His Orchestra	02:42
Ed Bickert	Ed Bickert - The Dreamer	The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)	02:50
Ron Collier Tentet	Just About Now	ST	02:06
The Mutual Understanding	Rain Rain Go Away	In Wonderland	02:21
Jackie Richardson	The Lies of Handsome Men	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	04:58
Lenny Breau	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	04:25
The Laurie Bower Singers	Minute To Minute	When You Say Goodbye	03:01
The Laurie Bower Singers	The Rose	Laurie Bower	03:31
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Bali Ha'I	ST	03:42
Peter Appleyard	Undecided	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:24
Norman Amadio Trio	You Do Something To Me	ST	01:39
The Laurie Bower Singers	50 Ways	Got a Feelin' for Love	03:31
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Come Saturday Morning	Montage	02:57
Rick Wilkins	A Wish Away	For the Sake of Music	03:17
Phil Nimmons Group	Chim chim cheree	Mary Popppins Swings	03:55
Hogtown Trumpets	Ludwig's Bugle	CBC Comp 434 comp	03:14
Lucio Agostini	Fiddler's Frolic	Action With Agostini	02:42
Doug Randle	The Doug Randle Orchestra - This Can't Be Love	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	02:24
Lenny Breau	Autumn Leaves	Mo' Breau	02:01
Dr. Music	Too High	Doug Riley Transcription	04:40
Bill Badgley	Moonlight Sonata	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	05:02
Lenny Breau	Don't Think Twice, It's All Right	Guitar Sounds From	04:31
Bill Badgley	Sand and Sea	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:59
Bill Badgley	Moon Love	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:15
Johnny Cowell	Like No Other Girl	It's Gotta Be Love	02:21
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Transformations: 1st movement	Transformations - Invocations	08:32
The Laurie Bower Singers	Crooked Mile	Wish I Was A Plane	02:43
Moe Koffman	Twist the Hully Gully	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:08
Peter Appleyard	Undecided	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:24
Dr. Music	Shoot	Doug Riley Transcription	06:55
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Wolverine Blues	Original Toronto Dixieland Band	02:42
The Laurie Bower Singers	Sweet Ginger Bread Man	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	02:52
Teddy Roderman	Sunny	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	02:11
Jimmy Namaro	He-Wat’s Happening? (What’s Happening)	Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury	02:56
Eugene Amaro	Am I Blue	Twilight Time	02:23
Teddy Roderman	Up-Up and Away	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	01:40
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (Bacharach-David)	Now!	05:50
Johnny Cowell	Just One More Time	His Girl	02:15
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Winchester Cathedral	It’s a Sign of the Times	03:22
2B3	Rob Gusevs, Michael Fonfara - Apricot Brandy	The Toronto Sessions	03:48
Guido Basso	Ramblin	It's Happening (re-issue)	02:15
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	My Best Girl	+ Horn = Dixie	03:31
Lenny Breau	I Remember Hank	Mo' Breau	05:18
Compilation	Cleone Duncan - Life Is A Merry-Go-Round	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	02:16
Guido Basso	Ill Wind	One More for the Road	05:15
Ron Collier Tentet	Charade	ST	02:33
Ben McPeek	Peace Train	Peace Train	03:49
Knights of the Round Flugel	Your Cheating Heart (Hank Williams)	Bye Bye Love	02:32
Tommy Ambrose	Goodbye	Young Tommy Ambrose	03:27
Hagood Hardy	You Needed Me	Reflections	04:00
Tommy Ambrose	While We're Young	Young Tommy Ambrose	01:53
Ron Collier Tentet	Fair Wind	ST	02:49
Swing Sisters	Girl Talk	Davenport Blues	03:54
Jackie Richardson	Too Beautiful to Know	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	00:56
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Wichita Lineman	The Now Sound	02:25
The Laurie Bower Singers	I Wish That I Was Making Love (To You Tonight)	Laurie Bower	03:17
Jimmy Namaro	Babylon	At the Westbury	03:44
Alex Read & His Tin Pan Alley Cats	Nellie Medley (Wait 'Til the Sun Shines Nellie - Wore a Tulip - Old Grey Bonnet - I Want a Gal) (arr. Read)	From CBC Toronto (split with Pat Riccio Orchestra (LM 09)	02:15
Compilation	Norma Locke - I Need You So	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	03:07
John Arpin	Dead Man Blues	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:04
Moe Koffman	Bermuda Schwartz	The Shepherd Swings Again	03:47
Ben McPeek	One Less Bell To Answer	Peace Train	03:26
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	And I Love Her	The Old Meets the New	03:11
Denny Vaughan	Lonely Evening Time	Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra	03:13
Lenny Breau	Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain (Fred Rose)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	03:18
Ben McPeek	Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!	His Voices and His Orchestra	02:17
Fred Stone	Elissa	The Music of Fred Stone	07:25
Jimmy Namaro	Beachcomber's Blues	Driftwood	04:07
Rick Wilkins	Tetra Tetra	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	06:00
Moe Koffman	You Are My Sunshine	Moe's Curried Soul	03:16
The Laurie Bower Singers	Song Sung Blue	Morning Has Broken	03:11
Don Gillis	Lady Death	Baby It's Alright (featuring Moe Koffman (Toronto Flutist))	03:58
Guido Basso	Sleigh Ride	Christmas Today	02:20
Ed Bickert	They All Laughed	I Like To Recognize the Tune	02:43
The Laurie Bower Singers	Ready To Take A Chance	You	03:19
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Down by the Old Mill Stream	The Old Meets the New	02:55
Rick Wilkins	Somewhere Along the Way	My Heart Belongs to Me	02:57
Colina Phillips	Never Had it So Good	Toronto Vocalist	03:23
Ben McPeek	Leave Tenderly	Thinking of You	02:34
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Won't You Step Into My Life	Montage	02:27
Kathryn Moses	Midnight	ST	08:32
Doug Randle	Out of this World (Elan Stuart, vocalist)	Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists	04:00
Denny Vaughan	Let a Smile be Your Umbrella	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:51
Tony Quarrington	Savannah (For South Africa)	One Bright Morning	13:24
Doug Randle	Do You Know That Fella (Is a Friend of Mine)	Nicolston Dam b/w Do You Know That Fella (Is a Friend of Mine)	02:47
Terry Watada	Romance fn the Road	Night's Disgrace	03:24

The Toronto Jazz Scene

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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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Jimmy Namaro - We Gotta Get It All Together

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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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