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
Teddy Roderman	The Happening	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	02:21
Jackie Richardson	A Single Woman	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	03:08
Doug Crosley	Somewhere, Sometime (Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	02:59
Compilation	This Could be the Start of Something Big (arranged by Bruce Cassidy)	Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical	03:09
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	I'll be Waiting	Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎	03:05
Peter Appleyard	Donald's Duck	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:59
Johnny Cowell	Every Single Day	The Tender Loving Care	02:32
Carol McCartney	A Night in Tunisia	A Night in Tunisia	05:31
Terry Watada	On the Edge (Part II)	Night's Disgrace	01:10
Doug Crosley	You Wonder Why (Babs Babineau, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	02:30
Bill Badgley	Nadia's Theme	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	03:00
Ed Bickert	A Flower Is A Lonesome Thing	Bye Bye Baby	05:32
Wally Koster	Home in Canada (Pat Riccio)	The Songs of Wally Koster	02:28
Compilation	Hogtown Hoe-Down	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	04:05
Lucio Agostini	Once Upon a Hundred Years (Theme)	Once Upon a Hundred Years	07:24
Eugene Amaro	On Days Like These	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	02:42
Terry Watada	Closing Time	Night's Disgrace	06:14
Jimmy Namaro	Afro-Rock	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:42
Jerry Toth	I've Got My Eyes On You	The Music Of	02:42
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Vera Cruz	ST	02:51
Guido Basso	Christina	And All That Latin Jazz!	02:44
Eugene Amaro	I Found My Love Last Summer	Warm	03:38
Denny Vaughan	Hayseedelic	Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra	02:12
Wally Koster	September Song	The Songs of Wally Koster	03:16
Vic Centro Sextet	Perdido	ST	02:33
The Laurie Bower Singers	El Condor Pasa	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:40
Compilation	Season of the Yonge	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	03:07
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	King of the Road	The Old Meets the New	03:32
Ivy Steel	Travelling Light	Reincarnation	03:59
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Come Saturday Morning (Previn/Karlin)	ST	02:18
Phil Nimmons Group	Blue Lou	Nimmons 'N' Nine	03:28
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Pagan Love Song	ST	02:55
Compilation	Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass - Don't Give Up	Motorcars In Concert 1970	02:09
Moe Koffman	Coaster	Cool and Hot Sax	04:03
Doug Crosley	(theme from) Love Story	With Lucio Agostini and his Orchestra	02:39
Guido Basso	'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk)	Lost in the Stars	03:45
Hagood Hardy	Balloons	The Homecoming	02:54
Tommy Ambrose	Time After Time	Young Tommy Ambrose	02:05
Doug Randle	Warm in the Sunshine	Songs for the New Industrial State	02:48
Eugene Amaro	Girl From Ipanema	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	03:24
Ben McPeek	Silent Cinema	Thinking of You	02:08
Wally Koster	Nice Work if You Can Get It	The Songs of Wally Koster	01:52
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra	Let's Face the Music and Dance	And I Love Her	02:25
Lucio Agostini	Tutti Flutti	Action With Agostini	02:42
Lucio Agostini	Prairie Boy	Action With Agostini	03:29
Moe Koffman	Icicle Bells (Allegro)	The Four Seasons	05:31
Bill Butler	A Portrait of a Piano	Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler	02:14
Ben McPeek	Only God Knows	Only God Knows b/w Keyboard Grease	02:39
Sanderlings	Love One Another (Trevor Jones)	With The Jim Pirie Orchestra	03:08
Eugene Amaro	Love Theme (Gone With The Wind)	Warm	03:04
Bill Butler	Violets for Your Furs	The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler	02:55
Yorkville Avenue Band	St. Louis Blues	"Moving Day"	03:13
Tommy Ambrose	You're Driving Me Crazy	Young Tommy Ambrose	01:54
Peter Appleyard	Sleep	The Vibraphone Of	01:56
Tony Quarrington	Eclipse	One Bright Morning	06:51
The Brian Browne Trio	The Brian Browne Trio - How Insensitive	The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)	03:29
The Laurie Bower Singers	Glitter Queen	Got a Feelin' for Love	02:55
Paul Zaza	The Magic Island	Images	02:51
Tommy Ambrose	I Don't Hurt Anymore	Young Tommy Ambrose	02:31
The Laurie Bower Singers	Theme from Ice Castles - Through the Eyes of Love	Laurie Bower	03:38
Johnny Cowell	Butterscotch	The Virtuoso Trumpet	02:23
Terry Watada	3439 North Sheffield	Night's Disgrace	06:08
Russ Little	Six Inch Spike	Footwork	06:05
Terry Watada	If I Sing the Blues	Yellow Fever	03:45
Johnny Cowell	Rejoice	The Virtuoso Trumpet	04:05
Teddy Roderman	So Let Our Love Begin	Makin' It With You	03:10
Terry Watada	Crazy Love	Night's Disgrace	05:32
Jimmy Namaro	Laura	With Mallets A 4 Thought	03:52
Peter Appleyard	Satin Doll	The Vibe Sound Of	02:41
Peter Appleyard	Sophisticated Lady	ST	02:42
2B3	Rob Gusevs, Michael Fonfara - Apricot Brandy	The Toronto Sessions	03:48
Denny Vaughan	Stranger on the Shore	A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"	02:34
The Laurie Bower Singers	Everybody's Reachin' Out For Someone	Take Me Home Country Roads	02:38
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Sku-Ba-Doo	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	07:19
Guido Basso	Ramblin'	It's Happening	02:16
Peter Appleyard	Flamingo	The Vibraphone Of	02:36
The Laurie Bower Singers	You Are What I Am	Wish I Was A Plane	02:23
Denny Vaughan	The Girl I Left Behind Me	Girls I Knew	03:02
Phil Nimmons Group	As a Rully	Take 10	06:05
The Laurie Bower Singers	The Rose	Laurie Bower	03:31
Moe Koffman	If I Were a Carpenter	Turned on	02:32
Johnny Burt Society	In the Arms of Home	….Come Summer	02:23
Jerry Toth	Here's That Rainy Day	The Music Of	02:30
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Cast Your Fate to the Wind	Montage	03:15
Moe Koffman	Doxy	The Shepherd Swings Again	03:44
Ben McPeek	Imagine	Peace Train	02:59
Peter Appleyard	Witchcraft	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:08
Ron Collier Tentet	Relaxin'	ST	02:28
Jimmy Dale	Triste	Soft and Groovy	03:05
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Transformations: 3rd movement	Transformations - Invocations	07:05
Peter Appleyard	Ben	The Lincolnshire Poacher	03:17
Wally Koster	Wagon Wheels	The Songs of Wally Koster	02:40
Bill Badgley	Mesclado (MYXAPYKL)	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	02:10
Johnny Cowell	It's Gotta be Love	It's Gotta Be Love	02:37
Johnny Burt Society	Until You Came Along	….Come Summer	02:55
Lenny Breau	Tuning Time	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	01:49
Rick Wilkins	(Our) Love is Here to Stay	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	04:45
Johnny Cowell	Don't Look Back	It's Gotta Be Love	02:04
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Fidgety Feet	Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read	01:59

The Toronto Jazz Scene

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Johnny Burt Society - In the Arms of Home b/w Until You Came Along

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Johnny Burt Society - ….Come Summer

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Johnny Burt & His Orchestra - Trombone - Teddy Roderman

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Johnny Burt & His Orchestra - Reminiscing: Featuring Teddy Roderman, trombonist

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Johnny Burt & His Orchestra - ST

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Johnny Burt & His Orchestra - Halifax Instrumental

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Ed Bickert - ST

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Jim O'Driscoll - Chega Saudade No More Blues b/w If You Could Read My Mind

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Jim O'Driscoll - I Don't Know How to Love Him b/w What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life

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Russ Little - Ain't No Mountain High Enough

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Russ Little - Footwork

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Russ Little - Slow Burn

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Russ Little - On the Shoulders of Giants

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Russ Little - Snapshot

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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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