The Toronto Jazz Scene

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
Lucio Agostini Introduction Once Upon a Hundred Years
Rick Wilkins The Way You Look Tonight From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)
Ed Bickert Sunday Kind of Love I Like To Recognize the Tune
Rick Wilkins Discovery Discovery
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty If You Could Read My Mind Do Something Nice Today!
The Laurie Bower Singers Don't Ask Me Why It Goes Like It Goes
Hagood Hardy (Love theme from) Missouri breaks Maybe Tomorrow
The Mutual Understanding Wonderland In Wonderland
The Laurie Bower Singers Everybody's Reachin' Out For Someone Take Me Home Country Roads
Moe Koffman Pretzel Twist Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra It's Delovely And I Love Her
Hagood Hardy Harlequin (A Time for Love) Reflections
Pat Riccio Stranger on the Shore (Bilk-Mellin) From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)
Rick Wilkins Weekend in New England My Heart Belongs to Me
Jimmy Namaro Lazy Afternoon We Gotta Get It All Together
Ed Bickert Ed Bickert - Windows The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)
Jimmy Dale You’d Better Love Me Soft and Groovy
Compilation This Could be the Start of Something Big (arranged by Bruce Cassidy) Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical
Bill Butler Autummn Nocturne The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler
Jimmy Dale Only Love Can Break Your Heart Toronto Instrumental
Henry Cuesta Rose Garden Plays Favourites
Peter Appleyard Mambo #V Peter Appleyard Presents
Pete Schofield and the Canadians King of the Road The Old Meets the New
Brian Browne Trio The Brian Browne Trio - Bluesette The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)
Phil Nimmons Group My Old Flame Nimmons 'N' Nine
Guido Basso Portrait of Guido (Phil Dwyer) Lost in the Stars
Jimmy Dale Wave Soft and Groovy
John Arpin The Chevy Chase (1914) Other Side Of Ragtime
Jimmy Namaro African Echoes We Gotta Get It All Together
The Laurie Bower Singers Theme from Ice Castles - Through the Eyes of Love Laurie Bower
Johnny Cowell Concerto For Trumpet And Orchestra In D Major- Mvmt 4 Finale The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Hagood Hardy & the Montage If Montage
Bill Butler Theme from "The Pathetique" Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler
John Arpin Excelsior Rag (1909) Other Side Of Ragtime
Lenny Breau I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams) Swingin' on a Seven-String
The Laurie Bower Singers Magnificent Sanctuary Band Morning Has Broken
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' When Ragtime Alex Plays the Humoresque (vocal by Trump Davidson) (featuring Alexander "Ragtime" Read) Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read
Rick Wilkins Len's Den From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)
Jimmy Namaro Pubba and The Puddy Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra
Guido Basso Yesterday When I Was Young (live) (Charles Aznavour) Lost in the Stars
John Arpin Beautiful Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot
Jerry Toth Who Are You Now? .. Nicholas Fiore flute solo The Classic Jerry Toth
Jimmy Namaro The Moon is Low featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra
Lenny Breau Long Way To Go Minor's Aloud
Moe Koffman Sure It Is The Shepherd Swings Again
Jimmy Dale Guanabara Soft and Groovy
Jimmy Namaro When the World Was Young featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra
Lucio Agostini Captain Bacardi Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass
Eugene Amaro Wheels Of Life Warm
Carol McCartney I Thought About You A Night in Tunisia
Jackie Richardson I Like Your Company - Old Friends Woman's View... Through Child Eyes
Peter Appleyard What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? The Lincolnshire Poacher
Doug Crosley Pisces Child (Dolores Claman) With Lucio Agostini and his Orchestra
Moe Koffman Now is the Time Goes Electric
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty Eleanor Rigby Do Something Nice Today!
Lucio Agostini Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass
Moe Koffman Nature's Banquet (Allegro) The Four Seasons
The Laurie Bower Singers If You Feel The Way I Do The Rose And The Rain
Bill Butler Theme from Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1 Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler
Johnny Cowell Silver Thread & Golden Needles The Tender Loving Care
Moe Koffman Sunshower (Allegro) The Four Seasons
Compilation Pat LaBarbera - Virgo Dance Jazz Toronto
Moe Koffman Flute Salad The Shepherd Swings Again
Sanderlings Come Saturday Morning (Dory Previn & Fred Karlin) With The Jim Pirie Orchestra
Paul Zaza Beautiful People Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)
Russ Little I Want to Make it With You (David Gates) Deeper and Deeper
Eugene Amaro Girl From Ipanema The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)
Compilation Jimmy Namaro - Man of La Mancha Motorcars In Concert 1970
Guido Basso Lost in the Stars (Kurt Weill) Lost in the Stars
Phil Nimmons Group Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six - Nosey Strictly Nimmons
Guido Basso Winter Wonderland Christmas Today
Teddy Roderman Watching Scotty Grow Makin' It With You
Eugene Amaro Didn’t We The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)
Tommy Ambrose While We're Young Young Tommy Ambrose
Guido Basso If I Let You Go Love Talk
Wally Koster My Funny Valentine The Songs of Wally Koster
Johnny Cowell Keep Yourself Together Hot Brass
Hagood Hardy Silent Sky Tell Me My Name
Paul Zaza Spring Song Faces and Places
Jimmy Namaro Cool Fool With Mallets A 4 Thought
Eugene Amaro Afterglow Warm
Jerry Toth Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady The Classic Jerry Toth
Guido Basso A Lazy Afternoon (alternate version) A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)
Moe Koffman Curried Sole Moe's Curried Soul
The Laurie Bower Singers Take The Long Way Home When You Say Goodbye
The Laurie Bower Singers How The Singers Sing Morning Has Broken
Lenny Breau Bluesette The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!
Jerry Toth A Rock Madrigal For Mehitabel The Twelve Sides Of
Jimmy Namaro I Got a Feelin' Your Foolin' With Mallets A 4 Thought
Hagood Hardy Balloons The Homecoming
Jimmy Namaro Night Sounds At the Westbury
Lucio Agostini A Banda Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass
Peter Appleyard Feelings ST
Lenny Breau Marlborough Street Mo' Breau
Compilation Manteca - Salsa Nova Jazz Toronto
Compilation Autumn Leaves (arranged by Orville Hoover) Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical
Hagood Hardy Christmas Song The Christmas Album
Joyce Sullivan I'll Give My Love an Apple The Songs of Joyce Sullivan
Ben McPeek If You Could Read My Mind Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene
Jimmy Namaro Man of La Mancha Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra

The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)

The Songs of Joyce Sullivan

We Gotta Get It All Together

His Girl

ST

Bye Bye Baby

I Like To Recognize the Tune

Bickert, Ed

The Toronto Scene

Brian Browne Trio-The Toronto Scene BACK

Toronto Instrumental

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

Browne, Brian Trio

Brian Browne Trio-The Toronto Scene LABEL 02

Brian Browne Trio-The Toronto Scene LABEL 01

"Moving Day"

Yorkville Avenue Band / "Moving Day" LABELS

Yorkville Avenue Band / "Moving Day" BACK

Thinking of You

Driftwood

Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra

Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury

featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra

At the Westbury

With Mallets A 4 Thought

Y' Gotta Quit Swingin' // We Could Make Such Beautiful Music

Namaro, Jimmy

Jimmy Namaro-We Gotta Keep it Together LABEL 02

Jimmy Namaro-We Gotta Keep it Together LABEL 01

Jimmy Namaro-We Gotta Keep it Together BACK

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