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
Ben McPeek	Talk It Over In The Morning	Peace Train	02:21
Yorkville Avenue Band	St. Louis Blues	"Moving Day"	03:13
Denny Vaughan	The Girl Next Door	Girls I Knew	02:49
Moe Koffman	Swingin' Explorer	Goes Electric	02:43
The Laurie Bower Singers	Out Here On My Own	It Goes Like It Goes	03:12
Jimmy Namaro	Afro-Rock	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:42
Peter Appleyard	We'll Never Know	The Vibraphone Of	02:14
Moe Koffman	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	Goes Electric	02:43
Lenny Breau	Freight Train	Guitar Sounds From	03:31
Compilation	Jane Bunnett - Rendez-Vous	Jazz Toronto	04:56
Hagood Hardy	Nightwalker	Tell Me My Name	03:31
Vic Centro Sextet	My Heart Cries For You	ST	02:15
The Laurie Bower Singers	Think	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:24
Jerry Toth	Portrait of Caroline	The Classic Jerry Toth	02:34
Phil Nimmons Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six - Nosey	Strictly Nimmons	05:38
Jimmy Namaro	Despertar	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:10
Jimmy Namaro	Anna Maria Waltz	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	03:17
Teddy Roderman	Beautiful Second Hand Man	Makin' It With You	02:34
Lucio Agostini	Tororito (Lucio Aostini)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	02:11
Jerry Toth	The Fool On the Hill	The Music Of	02:42
Knights of the Round Flugel	Your Cheating Heart (Hank Williams)	Bye Bye Love	02:32
Peter Appleyard	Midnight Sun	The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)	02:22
Peter Appleyard	Witchcraft	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:08
Ivy Steel	Prelude to a Kiss	Reincarnation	04:55
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Transformations: 2nd movement	Transformations - Invocations	07:39
Jimmy Namaro	So Danco Samba	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:00
The Laurie Bower Singers	Take The Long Way Home	When You Say Goodbye	04:07
Doug Randle	You Know That Fella (Is a Friend of Mine)	Songs for the New Industrial State	02:48
Henry Cuesta	Brand New Morning	Clarinet With Strings	02:17
Moe Koffman	You Are My Sunshine	Moe's Curried Soul	03:16
Eugene Amaro	I Left My Heart In San Francisco	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	02:50
Guido Basso	Winter Wonderland	Christmas Today	02:42
Johnny Cowell	Silver Thread & Golden Needles	The Tender Loving Care	02:39
The Laurie Bower Singers	When You Say Goodbye	When You Say Goodbye	03:56
Norman Amadio Trio	Mein Shtetele Belz	ST	02:13
Johnny Cowell	I Can't Get Started (Al Hirt & Bunny Berigan)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:43
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Moonlight Serenade	It’s a Sign of the Times	03:13
The Laurie Bower Singers	Key Largo	Laurie Bower	03:22
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Canadiana 67	It’s a Sign of the Times	02:04
Phil Nimmons Group	Kicks (Outro)	Nimmons 'N' Nine	00:33
The Laurie Bower Singers	Papa Joe	Wish I Was A Plane	02:54
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Hideaway (Barbara Moore)	ST	02:25
Bill Badgley	All	At the Ports of Call	01:58
The Mutual Understanding	Little Girl Blue	In Wonderland	03:29
Carol McCartney	The Shadow of Your Smile	A Night in Tunisia	05:38
Henry Cuesta	Just a Closer Walk with Thee	Clarinet With Strings	02:08
Terry Watada	Weekend	Night's Disgrace	03:18
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Johnny Cowell	El Condor Pasa	The Tender Loving Care	02:08
Moe Koffman	Exodus	Tales of Koffman	04:29
Ben McPeek	Blue Cha Cha	His Voices and His Orchestra	02:06
Moe Koffman	The Swingin' Shepherd Blues	Cool and Hot Sax	03:57
Jerry Toth	The Last Rhapsody	The Classic Jerry Toth	02:43
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Angie Baby	Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎	02:43
Jimmy Namaro	Westside Story (Medley): Maria - Cool - America - I Feel Pretty - To-night - Dance in the Gym	Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury	05:40
Ed Bickert	Sunday Kind of Love	I Like To Recognize the Tune	03:36
Ben McPeek	Baked Apple Rag	Thinking of You	02:32
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Bianca	Sailin' Home	04:37
The Laurie Bower Singers	I Think It's Gonna Rain on Me Today	Take Me Home Country Roads	03:29
Hagood Hardy	Daniel	Tell Me My Name	03:55
Doug Randle	Alley Cat	Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists	03:58
Ben McPeek	Undun	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	02:37
The Laurie Bower Singers	Theme from Chariots of Fire - Race to the End	Laurie Bower	02:42
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Do Something Nice Today	Do Something Nice Today!	02:34
Lenny Breau	Ebony Queen - Pam's Pad	Mo' Breau	07:30
Rick Wilkins	Don't Ask Me Why	Discovery	03:04
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Scarboro Fair (Simon/Garfunkel)	ST	02:29
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Eleanor Rigby	Do Something Nice Today!	02:44
Lenny Breau	Spanjazz	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	05:14
Peter Appleyard	This Masquerade	ST	03:01
Johnny Cowell	Freeze!	Our Winter Love	02:07
Jerry Toth	Theme From "Search"	The Twelve Sides Of	02:24
Johnny Cowell	Stay With Me	The Tender Loving Care	02:11
Doug Randle	Nicolston Dam	Songs for the New Industrial State	03:11
Guido Basso	Gentle Rain	One More for the Road	04:58
Paul Hoffert	Lover Man	The Jazz Roots of	11:00
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Blue Mantilla	ST	02:47
Lenny Breau	I Love You Because (Leon Payne)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	04:17
Moe Koffman	Tangerine (Bossa Nova)	Tales of Koffman	03:19
The Laurie Bower Singers	Sweet Ginger Bread Man	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	02:52
Paul Zaza	Dancing Lights	Faces and Places	02:16
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Candida	It's Impossible	03:08
John Arpin	Your Love's Return	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	02:58
The Laurie Bower Singers	Daniel	Wish I Was A Plane	03:17
Fred Stone	For Igor	The Music of Fred Stone	07:46
Guido Basso	Mia Mia	It's Happening	02:48
Paul Zaza	Follow the Sun	Faces and Places	02:18
Carol McCartney	I Concentrate On You	A Night in Tunisia	05:14
Jimmy Namaro	This is My Song	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:05
The Mutual Understanding	Out of This World	In Wonderland	02:33
Compilation	Cleone Duncan - Life Is A Merry-Go-Round	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	02:16
The Laurie Bower Singers	Daybreak	Looks Like We Made It	02:45
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	South of Pago Pago	ST	03:13
John Arpin	The Chevy Chase (1914)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:10
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Yesterday	It’s a Sign of the Times	03:10
Compilation	On a Wonderful Day Like Today (arranged by Howard Cable)	Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical	02:19
Guido Basso	Second Chance	One More for the Road	04:11
Guido Basso	Don't Know Why (Jesse Harris)	Lost in the Stars	05:05
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Come Saturday Morning	Montage	02:57
Paul Zaza	Sailing By	Coasting (with Isaacs)	02:34

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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