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.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Yorkville Avenue Band	Tonight	"Moving Day"	03:07
Sealy, Joe, Don Palmer, Tom Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Perfect Day	Sailin' Home	02:25
Cowell, Johnny	Close to You	The Tender Loving Care	02:55
Cowell, Johnny	Moonshine	Hot Brass	02:03
Basso, Guido	I Can Dream Can't I	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	06:27
Appleyard, Peter	Witchcraft	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:08
Burt, Johnny & His Orchestra	Love for Sale	Reminiscing: Featuring Teddy Roderman, trombonist	03:12
Laurie Bower Singers	If You Feel	Got a Feelin' for Love	02:40
Hardy, Hagood	Feelin' Good	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:14
Davidson, Jimmy 'Trump'	When My Sugar Walks Down the Street	Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read	02:18
Breau, Lenny	Scrapple From The Apple	Minor's Aloud	07:12
McPeek, Ben	Alouette	The Original Sounds of	02:20
Compilation	Norma Locke - I Need You So	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	03:07
Appleyard, Peter	Mack The Knife	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:36
Cowell, Johnny	Winds of Chance	Our Winter Love	01:47
Appleyard, Peter	Soulful Strut	The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)	02:53
Badgley, Bill	Music to Watch Girls By	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:29
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	I Love to Play (Opening Theme)	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	00:54
Basso, Guido	Cry	Love Talk	02:57
Namaro, Jimmy	Afro-Rock	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:42
Namaro, Jimmy	This Could be the Start of Something Big	Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury	03:40
Schofield, Pete & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Do Something Nice Today	Do Something Nice Today! b/w Summer Love	02:32
Laurie Bower Singers	Daybreak	Looks Like We Made It	02:45
Randle, Doug	The Doug Randle Orchestra - Fanny	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	02:32
Cowell, Johnny	I Can't Get Started (Al Hirt & Bunny Berigan)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:43
Hardy, Hagood	Reunion (Theme from Rituals)	Tell Me My Name	03:18
Crosley, Doug	(theme from) Love Story	With Lucio Agostini and his Orchestra	02:39
Breau, Lenny	Long Way To Go	Minor's Aloud	04:32
Zaza, Paul	Marina Del Rey	Coasting (with Isaacs)	02:30
Nimmons, Phil Group	Just You, Just Me	Nimmons 'N' Nine	04:22
Roderman, Teddy	Make It With You	Makin' It With You	02:25
Mutual Understanding	Show Me Your Laughter	Show Me Your Laughter/ Summer of '42 // Sunshine Man/ If You Say Goodbye	02:41
Koffman, Moe	Shimmy Twist	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:07
Arpin, John	Cotton Jenny	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	02:14
Basso, Guido	Too Late Now	Love Talk	03:19
Amaro, Eugene	Last Time I Felt Like This	Warm	03:19
Yorkville Avenue Band	Takin' Me Through the Night	"Moving Day"	03:31
Laurie Bower Singers	I've Found a New Baby	Feelin'	02:06
Wilkins, Rick	Ballad for Carolyn	My Heart Belongs to Me	03:48
Koffman, Moe	Bei Mir Bist Du Schön	Cool and Hot Sax	03:12
Badgley, Bill	Sand and Sea	At the Ports of Call	03:00
Butler, Bill	Spring Will be a Little Late This Year	The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler	02:51
McPeek, Ben	Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars	His Voices and His Orchestra	02:31
Wilkins, Rick	Sometimes When We Touch	For the Sake of Music	03:10
Sullivan, Joyce	Love (Can Be a Moment's Sadness)	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	01:28
Schofield, Pete & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	If You Could Read My Mind	Do Something Nice Today!	02:26
Laurie Bower Singers	Theme from Chariots of Fire - Race to the End	Laurie Bower	02:42
Hardy, Hagood	Travellin' On	The Homecoming	03:04
Graf, Eddie & His Orchestra	Destino	And I Love Her	02:40
Wilkins, Rick	Lowdown	My Heart Belongs to Me	03:41
Arpin, John	You Are What I Am	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	01:52
Breau, Lenny	I Remember Hank	Mo' Breau	05:18
Hardy, Hagood	Gary - A Remembrance	As Time Goes By	02:52
Agostini, Lucio	Pedro Pussycat	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	02:06
Appleyard, Peter	Angel Eyes	The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)	03:14
Bickert, Ed	Ed Bickert - Windows	The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)	02:35
Cowell, Johnny	Marcella's Waltz	His Girl	02:10
Collier, Ron Orchestra & Duke Ellington	Silent Night, Lonely Night	Duke Ellington: "North of the Border" in Canada	03:02
Hardy, Hagood	Workin' In L.A.	As Time Goes By	04:00
Badgley, Bill	Tiny Bubbles	At the Ports of Call	02:04
Dale, Jimmy	Wave	Soft and Groovy	02:43
Hardy, Hagood	When Joanne Loved Me	Maybe Tomorrow	03:49
Cowell, Johnny	Stawberry Jam	His Girl	02:04
Butler, Bill	One Morning in May	The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler	03:11
Appleyard, Peter	Why Don't You Do Right	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:35
Koster, Wally	Time Was	The Songs of Wally Koster	02:19
Moses, Kathryn	My Romance	ST	05:38
Appleyard, Peter	Fascinating Rhythm	The Vibe Sound Of	02:45
Arpin, John	King Porter Stomp	Concert In Ragtime	02:42
Browne, Brian Trio	The Brian Browne Trio - Blues Before Bedtime	The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)	02:43
Collier, Ron Tentet	Charade	ST	02:33
Sealy, Joe, Don Palmer, Tom Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Sailin' Home	Sailin' Home	04:15
Cowell, Johnny	Don't Look Back	It's Gotta Be Love	02:04
Randle, Doug	The Doug Randle Orchestra - Unchained Melody (Tommy Common, vocals)	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	02:51
Nimmons, Phil Group	Squeeze Play	Take 10	03:58
Basso, Guido	Tequila	It's Happening (re-issue)	02:43
Wilkins, Rick	If You Remember Me	Discovery	02:48
Koffman, Moe	Cantelope Island	Moe's Curried Soul	06:56
Basso, Guido	Estate	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	06:33
Laurie Bower Singers	Evergreen	Looks Like We Made It	03:27
Cuesta, Henry	Rose Garden	Plays Favourites	02:12
Hardy, Hagood	Cold on the Shoulder	The Homecoming	03:31
Schofield, Pete and the Canadians	(Do You Know The Way To) San Jose	The Now Sound	03:05
Appleyard, Peter	The Linconshire Poacher	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:40
Dale, Jimmy	Where Is the Love?	Toronto Instrumental	02:49
Schofield, Pete & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Delta Dawn	Do Something Nice Today!	02:35
Burt, Johnny & His Orchestra	It Might As Well Be Spring	Trombone - Teddy Roderman	03:15
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Transformations: 2nd movement	Transformations - Invocations	07:39
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Candida	It's Impossible	03:08
Laurie Bower Singers	Everything Old is New Again	Looks Like We Made It	02:26
McPeek, Ben	Mame	The Original Sounds of	03:04
Arpin, John	Gladiolus Rag (1907)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:11
Randle, Doug	Love is Just Around the Corner (Elan Stuart, vocalist)	Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists	02:40
Toth, Jerry	The Singer	The Twelve Sides Of	02:11
Hardy, Hagood	Christmas Waltz	The Christmas Album	02:58
Amaro, Eugene	Wheels Of Life	Warm	03:08
Graf, Eddie & His Orchestra	And I Love Her	And I Love Her	02:38
Basso, Guido	A Lazy Afternoon (alternate version)	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	03:46
Namaro, Jimmy	Nothing in This World (Compares With You)	With Mallets A 4 Thought	03:37
Schofield, Pete and the Canadians	Canadiana 67	It’s a Sign of the Times	02:04

The Toronto Jazz Scene

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Browne, Brian Trio - The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)

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Burt, Johnny & His Orchestra - ST

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Breau, Lenny - ST

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Namaro, Jimmy - We Gotta Get It All Together

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Badgley, Bill - Blue-Ribbon Badgley

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Badgley, Bill - At the Ports of Call

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Mutual Understanding - In Wonderland

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Collier, Ron Tentet - ST

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Amaro, Eugene - Warm

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Agostini, Lucio - Action With Agostini

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Schofield, Pete and the Canadians - It’s a Sign of the Times

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Laurie Bower Singers - You

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Toth, Jerry - The Twelve Sides Of

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Hardy, Hagood & the Montage - ST

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Wilkins, Rick - From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)

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McPeek, Ben - Only God Knows b/w Keyboard Grease

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Hardy, Hagood - As Time Goes By

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Sanderlings - With The Jim Pirie Orchestra

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Hoffert, Paul - The Jazz Roots of

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Zaza, Paul - Faces and Places

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Namaro, Jimmy - With Mallets A 4 Thought

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McPeek, Ben - The Original Sounds of

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Laurie Bower Singers - Take Me Home Country Roads

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Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six - Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64

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Bickert, Ed - ST

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Basso, Guido - Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert

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Randle, Doug - Songs for the New Industrial State

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Richardson, Jackie - Woman's View... Through Child Eyes

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Breau, Lenny - Minor's Aloud

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Basso, Guido - It's Happening (re-issue)

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