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
Rick Wilkins	The Closer I Get To You	For the Sake of Music	03:23
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	My Best Girl	+ Horn = Dixie	03:31
Compilation	Herbie Spanier - Dimensions In Blue	Jazz Toronto	06:38
Denny Vaughan	Abergavenny	Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra	02:24
Jackie Richardson	Stay With Me	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	04:07
Bill Badgley	In the Arms of Love	At the Ports of Call	02:34
Jimmy Namaro	Stranger in Paradise	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:43
Compilation	Ben McPeek - For Lovin' Me	Motorcars In Concert 1970	01:52
Peter Appleyard	Lazy Silhouettes	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:54
Russ Little	Blue Monk	On the Shoulders of Giants	04:13
Moe Koffman	Dr. Swahili	Goes Electric	02:42
Henry Cuesta	Remember When (We Made These Memories)	Clarinet With Strings	03:05
Hagood Hardy	Deck The Halls (With Boughs Of Holly)	The Christmas Album	02:05
Doug Crosley	Hogtown (Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	03:00
Guido Basso	Suite P.E.I.	Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert	17:40
Guido Basso	Santa Claus Is Coming To Town	Christmas Today	02:39
Wally Koster	September Song	The Songs of Wally Koster	03:16
Peter Appleyard	Undecided	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:24
Jimmy Dale	Night Song	Soft and Groovy	03:40
Tony Quarrington	Roundabout	One Bright Morning	08:34
Pat Riccio	In To Miami (Barry)	From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)	02:15
Doug Riley	Freedom	Freedom	04:34
Jackie Richardson	I Like Your Company - Old Friends	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	04:32
Eugene Amaro	Strangers In The Night	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	02:42
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Georgia Camp Meeting	+ Horn = Dixie	03:03
The Laurie Bower Singers	Rhumba Girl	It Goes Like It Goes	03:30
Lenny Breau	Blues Theme	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	01:04
Guido Basso	Some Other Time (Leonard Bernstein)	Lost in the Stars	04:57
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia	Do Something Nice Today!	02:25
Teddy Roderman	What's Doin' (Phil Nimmons)	Stay Awhile	02:49
Russ Little	Footwork	Footwork	04:58
Johnny Cowell	Flight of the Bumblebee (Wynton Marsalis)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:12
Compilation	Fifes and Feathers	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	04:54
Jimmy Dale	Bye Bye	Soft and Groovy	02:42
Ben McPeek	Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!	His Voices and His Orchestra	02:17
Lucio Agostini	Carey (Joni Mitchell)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	02:18
Paul Zaza	Superstar	Faces and Places	02:11
Guido Basso	Estate	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	06:33
The Laurie Bower Singers	Rainy Day People	Got a Feelin' for Love	03:12
Moe Koffman	What Can You Do	The Shepherd Swings Again	03:54
Lenny Breau	Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain (Fred Rose)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	03:18
Jerry Toth	Last Tango In Paris	The Twelve Sides Of	02:38
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Fidgety Feet	Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read	01:59
Denny Vaughan	Moonlight Rendezvous	A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"	02:40
Guido Basso	Canada	It's Happening	01:54
Johnny Cowell	The Golden Jet (Bobb Hull)	His Girl	02:23
Phil Nimmons Group	As a Rully	Take 10	06:05
Phil Nimmons Group	Kicks	Nimmons 'N' Nine	00:29
Paul Hoffert	6 Bar Theme	The Jazz Roots of	05:23
Peter Appleyard	Mambo Inn	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:25
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Back On the Bus	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	03:46
2B3	Denis Keldie, Richard Bell - King Harvest	The Toronto Sessions	03:50
Jimmy Namaro	Chi Chi Cha Cha Cha	Driftwood	02:54
Guido Basso	I Can Dream Can't I	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	06:27
Moe Koffman	Hey There	Cool and Hot Sax	03:42
Jackie Richardson	If I Could Only Sleep	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	05:49
Johnny Cowell	Marcella	It's Gotta Be Love	02:22
Compilation	Phil Nimmons Quartet - It Ain't Necessarily So	CBC Comp 409	02:49
The Laurie Bower Singers	Simple Song	Back Home Again	02:20
Eugene Amaro	Danny Boy	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	03:09
Compilation	Talk to the Animals (arranged by Ray Sikora)	Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical	02:23
Guido Basso	Goofus	It's Happening (re-issue)	02:32
Eugene Amaro	Didn’t We	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	02:54
Lucio Agostini	Carey (Joni Mitchell)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	02:18
The Laurie Bower Singers	Stop And Smell The Roses	Back Home Again	02:54
The Mutual Understanding	Wonderland	In Wonderland	02:54
Peter Appleyard	Happiness is a Thing Called Joe	The Vibraphone Of	02:59
Hagood Hardy	Never-Never Land	Stop 33 Sutton Place	03:00
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Angie Baby	Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎	02:43
Guido Basso	I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Jimmy McHugh)	Lost in the Stars	05:11
Rick Wilkins	Jazz Gavotte	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	05:26
Rick Wilkins	Savin' it Up	Discovery	03:46
The Laurie Bower Singers	I Got a Name	Back Home Again	02:51
Jim O'Driscoll	I Don't Know How to Love Him	I Don't Know How to Love Him b/w What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life	02:44
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Delta Dawn	Do Something Nice Today!	02:35
Denny Vaughan	Medley : Heigh Ho / Whistle While You Work	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:55
Ed Bickert	Barbados	Bye Bye Baby	04:11
Lucio Agostini	Introduction	Once Upon a Hundred Years	05:04
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Invocation: Gold (The Challenge)	Transformations - Invocations	10:24
Peter Appleyard	Apres Toi	The Lincolnshire Poacher	03:58
Eugene Amaro	Something About You	Twilight Time	03:18
Jimmy Namaro	Lonely One	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	02:46
Doug Randle	Martin of Her Mind	Songs for the New Industrial State	05:01
The Laurie Bower Singers	American Music	Laurie Bower	03:16
Peter Appleyard	Just In Time	The Vibe Sound Of	02:40
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	All in the Family	Toronto Instrumental	02:34
Guido Basso	What A Friend	It's Happening	02:31
Colina Phillips	River Jordan	Toronto Vocalist	03:05
Dr. Music	Shoot	Doug Riley Transcription	06:55
Peter Appleyard	Wichita Lineman	The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)	02:43
Jimmy Namaro	Cool Fool	With Mallets A 4 Thought	03:40
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Struttin' Your Stuff	Sailin' Home	03:45
Phil Nimmons Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six - Nosey	Strictly Nimmons	05:38
Ed Bickert	Street of Dreams	I Like To Recognize the Tune	03:22
Ben McPeek	Imagine	Peace Train	02:59
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Sign of the Times	It’s a Sign of the Times	02:39
Hagood Hardy	Don't You Think it's Time to Come Back Home	Tell Me My Name	03:49
Jackie Richardson	Green Lies and Man	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	00:37
Rick Wilkins	Junk	My Heart Belongs to Me	02:58
Joyce Sullivan	Speak Low	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	03:17

The Toronto Jazz Scene

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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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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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