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
Vic Centro Sextet	On Green Dolphin Street	ST	02:13
John Arpin	You are the Sunshine of My Life	Direct to Disc	02:58
Terry Watada	The 505	Night's Disgrace	04:17
Phil Nimmons Group	Just You, Just Me	Nimmons 'N' Nine	04:22
Eugene Amaro	Something About You	Twilight Time	03:18
Ed Bickert	Skating in Central Park	Out of the Past	07:34
Hagood Hardy	Just the Way You Are	Reflections	04:01
Compilation	Rhonda Silver - I Saw It Happen	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	02:18
Jimmy Namaro	African Echoes	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	03:00
Jimmy Namaro	Nightingale	We Gotta Get It All Together	04:24
Tommy Ambrose	Have a Heart	Young Tommy Ambrose	02:16
Peter Appleyard	Don't Get Around Much Anymore	The Vibe Sound Of	02:51
Teddy Roderman	Stay Awhile (Ken Tobias)	Stay Awhile	02:58
Johnny Cowell	Darling Mama	His Girl	02:22
Jimmy Dale	The Look Of Love	Soft and Groovy	03:21
Compilation	Episode 7-Oh!	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	04:19
Jimmy Namaro	Carnival Brasiliero	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:03
The Laurie Bower Singers	50 Ways	Got a Feelin' for Love	03:31
Peter Appleyard	Alone Again, Naturally	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:58
Doug Crosley	For All We Know	With Lucio Agostini and his Orchestra	02:49
Ben McPeek	Maxwell's Silver Hammer	Thinking of You	02:11
Ron Collier Tentet	Relaxin'	ST	02:28
Doug Randle	The Doug Randle Orchestra - Jennine	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	02:28
Eugene Amaro	My Love	Twilight Time	02:56
Doug Randle	The Doug Randle Orchestra - What Now My Love	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	03:26
Yorkville Avenue Band	The Big Noise From Vinnetka	"Moving Day"	02:49
Yorkville Avenue Band	All of You	"Moving Day"	03:22
Moe Koffman	What Can You Do	The Shepherd Swings Again	03:54
Denny Vaughan	Cheerful Little Earful	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	02:15
Teddy Roderman	It's Impossible	Makin' It With You	02:42
Terry Watada	Only Dreams	Night's Disgrace	04:47
Johnny Cowell	Hora Stacatto (Doc Severinson and Raphael Mendez)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:23
Johnny Cowell	Siberian Love Song	Our Winter Love	02:45
Terry Watada	Maverick Chinaman	Night's Disgrace	10:36
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	The Garden Path	The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life	03:19
Jackie Richardson	Papa Can You Hear Me - Piece of the Sky	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	06:30
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	What Are You Doing the Rest Of Your Life?	Do Something Nice Today!	03:14
Lenny Breau	No Greater Love	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	07:10
Kathryn Moses	Midmorning	ST	04:12
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Delta Dawn	Do Something Nice Today!	02:35
Denny Vaughan	Then I'll Be Happy	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:42
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Wave	Do Something Nice Today!	02:47
The Laurie Bower Singers	Love and Maple Syrup (Gordon Lightfoot)	Love and Maple Syrup b/w Everybody's Reachin' Out for Someone	02:54
Peter Appleyard	Conversation	Toronto Instrumental	02:04
Hagood Hardy	Winter Time	The Christmas Album	02:19
Ben McPeek	Every Bit of Love	Thinking of You	02:28
Russ Little	Midnight Sun	Footwork	06:23
The Laurie Bower Singers	You	You	03:15
The Laurie Bower Singers	Just a Little Song	Back Home Again	02:29
Peter Appleyard	Ben	The Lincolnshire Poacher	03:17
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	It Takes Time (Shirley Eikhard)	It's Impossible	02:22
2B3	Denis Keldie, Richard Bell - King Harvest	The Toronto Sessions	03:50
Jimmy Namaro	One of a Kind Mambo	With Mallets A 4 Thought	02:29
Johnny Cowell	Theme from Zorba (Herb Alpert)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:36
Hagood Hardy	I'll Take Love	Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning) b/w I'll Take Love	02:30
Johnny Cowell	Road of Love	Our Winter Love	02:22
Rick Wilkins	Lowdown	My Heart Belongs to Me	03:41
Tommy Ambrose	That's the Way it Was	Just Like a Man b/w That's the Way it Was	02:46
Hagood Hardy	It's Sad to Belong to Someone Else	Tell Me My Name	03:10
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Yes It's Toronto	Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎	02:58
Guido Basso	Lush Life	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	06:26
Guido Basso	Polka Dots & Moonbeams	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	04:34
Compilation	Pat LaBarbera - Virgo Dance	Jazz Toronto	06:30
Moe Koffman	Dr. Swahili	Goes Electric	02:42
Compilation	Talk to the Animals (arranged by Ray Sikora)	Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical	02:23
Peter Appleyard	The Man With The Golden Arm	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:39
Moe Koffman	Icicle Bells (Allegro)	The Four Seasons	05:31
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Bridge Over Troubled Waters (Simon/Garfunkel)	ST	04:02
Bill Badgley	Georgy Girl	At the Ports of Call	01:59
Paul Hoffert	Growing Up	The Jazz Roots of	05:13
The Laurie Bower Singers	Peaceful	Wish I Was A Plane	02:38
Compilation	Carol Welsman - Lucky to be Me	Jazz Toronto	03:55
Lenny Breau	She Thinks I Still Care (Dickey Lee)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	04:23
Rick Wilkins	Weekend in New England	My Heart Belongs to Me	03:38
Jimmy Namaro	The Man I Love	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	02:53
Henry Cuesta	Fate	Clarinet With Strings	02:30
Peter Appleyard	This Masquerade	ST	03:01
Carol McCartney	Dat Dere	A Night in Tunisia	03:39
Lenny Breau	Mercy, Mercy, Mercy	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	05:34
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Exactly Like Jerry Smith	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	08:22
Teddy Roderman	Feelin' Kinda Sunday	Makin' It With You	02:14
Ben McPeek	That Old Black Magic	The Original Sounds of	02:50
John Arpin	Excelsior Rag (1909)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:06
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Shuffle Boogie, Swamp, Groove Blue	Toronto Instrumental	02:35
Rick Wilkins	Déjà vu	Discovery	03:55
Jimmy Namaro	Cha Cha Chimes	Driftwood	02:14
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Sign of the Times	It’s a Sign of the Times	02:39
The Laurie Bower Singers	Thorn In My Shoe	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	02:34
Bill Butler	Theme from Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2	Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler	02:31
The Laurie Bower Singers	You Never Done It Like That	You	03:09
The Laurie Bower Singers	Sweet Ginger Bread Man	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	02:52
Guido Basso	Canada	It's Happening	01:54
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
John Arpin	Beautiful	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	03:16
Joyce Sullivan	Love (Can Be a Moment's Sadness)	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	01:28
Guido Basso	Too Late Now	Love Talk	03:19
Ben McPeek	Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady	Thinking of You	03:20
The Mutual Understanding	I'm Old Fashioned	In Wonderland	02:31
Bill Butler	The Dream of Olwen	Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler	02:34
Hogtown Trumpets	Aztec	CBC Comp 434 comp	02:47

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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