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
Bill Butler	The Girl that I Marry (mono version)	The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler	02:33
Jimmy Namaro	With Mallets Towards Some	With Mallets A 4 Thought	02:56
Denny Vaughan	Judy	Girls I Knew	02:24
Ed Bickert	It’s Time	Bye Bye Baby	04:03
Johnny Cowell	Silver Thread & Golden Needles	The Tender Loving Care	02:39
Lenny Breau	Claude (Free Song)	ST	11:01
Teddy Roderman	Niagara	Makin' It With You	02:10
Ed Bickert	Polkadots & Moonbeams	I Like To Recognize the Tune	03:27
John Arpin	Tickled to Death	Concert In Ragtime	01:57
Johnny Cowell	Kornig - Garden Horn Gallop (arranged by Johnny Cowell)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	02:25
Doug Wilson Quartet	Canada	Canada b/w Canadian Theme	02:23
Moe Koffman	Tangerine (Bossa Nova)	Tales of Koffman	03:19
Hagood Hardy	Never-Never Land	Stop 33 Sutton Place	03:00
The Laurie Bower Singers	Mississippi	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:00
Johnny Cowell	Lonely Girl	Our Winter Love	01:46
2B3	Rob Gusevs, Denis Keldie - Hush	The Toronto Sessions	06:12
Peter Appleyard	Rockin' in Rhythm	The Vibraphone Of	02:18
Compilation	Catherine Mckinnon - Sable Island	CBC Comp 409	02:07
Peter Appleyard	A Face Like Yours	Peter Appleyard Presents	03:58
Lenny Breau	Ebony Queen - Pam's Pad	Mo' Breau	07:30
Johnny Cowell	Marcella's Waltz (Valse Brilliante)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	05:30
Rick Wilkins	Emotion	For the Sake of Music	03:28
Lenny Breau	Freight Train	Guitar Sounds From	03:31
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Yes It's Toronto	Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎	02:58
Bill Badgley	How Insensitive	At the Ports of Call	01:48
Rick Wilkins	Let Me be the One	My Heart Belongs to Me	02:31
Phil Nimmons Group	Fascinating Rhythm	Nimmons 'N' Nine	08:12
Jimmy Namaro	Babylon	At the Westbury	03:44
The Laurie Bower Singers	Battle Of New Orleans	Wish I Was A Plane	02:54
Terry Watada	Rose of St. Urbain	Night's Disgrace	04:33
Paul Zaza	Swallow Flight	Images	03:45
Carol McCartney	I Concentrate On You	A Night in Tunisia	05:14
Jackie Richardson	Here's to Life	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	04:57
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra	Summer Wind	And I Love Her	02:50
Compilation	Tommy Ambrose - In The Words of a Lover	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	02:04
The Laurie Bower Singers	Don't Cry Out Loud	It Goes Like It Goes	03:14
Compilation	Laurie Bower Singers - Sometime Girl	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	02:00
Guido Basso	Marion's Theme ( from Megantic Outlaw)	Love Talk	02:40
Doug Crosley	Good Morning (Babs Babineau and Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	02:59
Ron Collier Tentet	I Feel Pretty	ST	02:30
Jimmy Namaro	We Gotta Get it All Together	We Gotta Get It All Together	04:50
Hagood Hardy	Misty	Reflections	03:45
Paul Zaza	Song of the Stars	Images	02:47
The Laurie Bower Singers	Hey Look	Got a Feelin' for Love	02:22
Jimmy Namaro	Beachcomber's Blues	Driftwood	04:07
Guido Basso	Nightcap	It's Happening	02:16
Moe Koffman	Anteater's Dance	Moe's Curried Soul	03:00
Compilation	Ted Komar - Papirossew	CBC Comp 409	02:23
Phil Nimmons Group	Chim chim cheree	Mary Popppins Swings	03:55
Tommy Ambrose	That's the Way it Was	Just Like a Man b/w That's the Way it Was	02:46
Moe Koffman	When the Saints Go Marching In	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:11
Compilation	Jerry Toth - The Fool On the Hill	Motorcars In Concert 1970	01:41
Hagood Hardy	The Homecoming	The Homecoming	02:34
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Winchester Cathedral	It’s a Sign of the Times	03:22
Moe Koffman	The Calm (Adagio)	The Four Seasons	01:59
Bill Badgley	Fernando	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	03:39
Hagood Hardy	Just the Way You Are	Reflections	04:01
Moe Koffman	Up, Up and Away	Turned on	02:28
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Cast Your Fate to the Wind	Montage	03:15
Henry Cuesta	Rose Garden	Plays Favourites	02:12
The Laurie Bower Singers	Put Your Hand In The Hand	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	02:41
Rick Wilkins	Why Think About Tomorrow	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	05:43
Tommy Ambrose	This Song Is Ended	Young Tommy Ambrose	02:18
Paul Zaza	The Magic Island	Images	02:51
Doug Randle	Vive La Company	Songs for the New Industrial State	04:51
Hagood Hardy	Joy, Joy	The Christmas Album	01:24
Ben McPeek	Track 17	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	03:07
Paul Zaza	Canon in D	Images	02:25
Ben McPeek	If You Could Read My Mind	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	03:34
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	The Getaway	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	06:27
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Sleeping Beauty Waltz	Trombone - Teddy Roderman	02:24
Doug Crosley	Hogtown (Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	03:00
Paul Hoffert	Lover Man	The Jazz Roots of	11:00
Guido Basso	Two Bass Hit	Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert	08:02
Denny Vaughan	Ain't We Got Fun	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:57
The Mutual Understanding	San Jose	In Wonderland	02:41
Lucio Agostini	March Wind	Action With Agostini	03:19
Peter Appleyard	Don't Get Around Much Anymore	The Vibe Sound Of	02:51
Ben McPeek	Soon It's Gonna Rain	The Original Sounds of	03:09
Denny Vaughan	Windy	Girls I Knew	02:31
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	How I Think of You	Montage	02:47
Peter Appleyard	Telephone Song	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:37
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (Bacharach-David)	Now!	05:50
Russ Little	Albert Flasher (Burton Cummings)	Deeper and Deeper	01:44
Paul Zaza	Summertime Drive	Faces and Places	02:19
Jimmy Namaro	We Could Make Such Beautiful Music	Y' Gotta Quit Swingin' // We Could Make Such Beautiful Music	02:55
John Arpin	If You Could Read My Mind	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	02:55
Norman Amadio Trio	Mein Shtetele Belz	ST	02:13
Tommy Ambrose	I Don't Hurt Anymore	Young Tommy Ambrose	02:31
Jimmy Namaro	September Song	Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury	02:54
Phil Nimmons Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine - Gone With the Blues	Strictly Nimmons	06:05
The Laurie Bower Singers	Got A Feelin'	Got a Feelin' for Love	02:32
Peter Appleyard	Why Don't You Do Right	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:35
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	The Sound of Silver	ST	03:20
Johnny Cowell	Quiet Girl	The Tender Loving Care	02:19
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	If	Montage	02:38
Lucio Agostini	Taxi	Action With Agostini	02:12
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Vera Cruz	ST	02:51
Bill Badgley	Moon Love	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:15
Jackie Richardson	My Baby	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	00:07

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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