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
Bill Butler	One Morning in May	The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler	03:11
Wally Koster	The More I See You	The Songs of Wally Koster	02:20
Lenny Breau	Blues Theme	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	01:04
Moe Koffman	Inverno Furioso (Allegro)	The Four Seasons	02:44
Ron Collier Orchestra & Duke Ellington	Collage #3	Duke Ellington: "North of the Border" in Canada	02:51
Peter Appleyard	Softly as in a Morning Sunrise	The Vibraphone Of	02:37
Guido Basso	Anniversary Song	It's Happening	02:09
Hagood Hardy	The Looking Glass	As Time Goes By	03:19
Jimmy Dale	Could it be Magic	Profiles	02:45
Peter Appleyard	The Last Blues Song	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:40
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Mrs. Robinson	The Now Sound	03:08
Lucio Agostini	Heart of Gold (Neil Young)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	02:47
The Laurie Bower Singers	Sweet Ginger Bread Man	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	02:52
Paul Hoffert	6 Bar Theme	The Jazz Roots of	05:23
Compilation	Jerry Toth - It's a Great Life	Motorcars In Concert 1970	02:09
Doug Riley	The Way We Was	Freedom	04:44
The Laurie Bower Singers	You Are What I Am	Wish I Was A Plane	02:23
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Struttin' Your Stuff	Sailin' Home	03:45
2B3	Denis Keldie, Michael Fonfara - Gimme Some Lovin'	The Toronto Sessions	05:29
Paul Zaza	Hollywood Hills	Faces and Places	02:30
Guido Basso	Two for the Road (H. Mancini)	One More for the Road	06:53
Pat Riccio	Michelle (Lennon-McCartney)	From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)	02:40
Moe Koffman	Sahara	Tales of Koffman	05:02
Jimmy Namaro	Sonny’s Daze	Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury	03:33
Terry Watada	The 505	Night's Disgrace	04:17
Jimmy Namaro	Tahiti Boat	Driftwood	02:39
Johnny Cowell	Playful Trumpets	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	03:19
Guido Basso	'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk)	Lost in the Stars	03:45
Guido Basso	S'Wonderful	And All That Latin Jazz!	03:10
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Pagan Love Song	ST	02:55
Henry Cuesta	At a Georgia Camp Meeting	Clarinet With Strings	02:15
Ben McPeek	Fascinating Rhythm	His Voices and His Orchestra	02:05
Ron Collier Tentet	The Thrill is Gone	ST	02:02
Rick Wilkins	The Way You Look Tonight	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	05:33
Rick Wilkins	Lowdown	My Heart Belongs to Me	03:41
Johnny Cowell	The Golden Jet (Bobb Hull)	His Girl	02:23
Paul Zaza	Blue Porcelain	Faces and Places	02:18
Joyce Sullivan	The Anniversary Song	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	02:46
Hogtown Trumpets	Back Bacon Blues	CBC Comp 434 comp	03:06
Jimmy Dale	Bye Bye	Soft and Groovy	02:42
Moe Koffman	Monks Monastery	Tales of Koffman	02:55
Paul Zaza	Fine and Dandy	Faces and Places	02:31
Hagood Hardy	Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning)	Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning) b/w I'll Take Love	03:06
Ben McPeek	Talk It Over In The Morning	Peace Train	02:21
Tommy Ambrose	That's the Way it Was	Just Like a Man b/w That's the Way it Was	02:46
Hagood Hardy	Something in Your Smile	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:44
Hagood Hardy	After You've Gone	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:27
Lucio Agostini	Tico-Tico	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	01:35
Johnny Cowell	Marcella	It's Gotta Be Love	02:22
The Laurie Bower Singers	Oh My Lady	Wish I Was A Plane	03:15
Lenny Breau	You Needed Me (Randy Goodrum)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	03:25
Hagood Hardy	Oh Holy Night	The Christmas Album	04:37
Rick Wilkins	Junk	My Heart Belongs to Me	02:58
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Knock Three Times	Do Something Nice Today!	02:32
Bill Badgley	Theme from "The Sand Pebbles"	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:17
Phil Nimmons Group	A Spoonful of Sugar	Mary Popppins Swings	04:07
Bill Badgley	Amanda	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	03:05
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	I Lived in a Dream	Halifax Instrumental	03:01
Sanderlings	Love One Another (Trevor Jones)	With The Jim Pirie Orchestra	03:08
The Laurie Bower Singers	If You Feel The Way I Do	The Rose And The Rain	02:40
Johnny Cowell	For What it's Worth	It's Gotta Be Love	02:35
Jimmy Namaro	Nightingale	We Gotta Get It All Together	04:24
Rick Wilkins	Should I Love Again	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	04:35
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Medley #2: My Honey's Lovin' Arms - Five Foot Two - Runnin' Wild (featuring Alexander "Ragtime" Read)	Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read	02:07
Russ Little	My Mama Told Me So	Slow Burn	06:04
Wally Koster	Wagon Wheels	The Songs of Wally Koster	02:40
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Wise Guys	+ Horn = Dixie	03:09
Peter Appleyard	Feelings	ST	03:29
Hagood Hardy	Don't Give up on Us	Tell Me My Name	02:52
Doug Randle	Batteries Not Included	Songs for the New Industrial State	02:47
Bill Badgley	Moon Love	At the Ports of Call	02:16
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Sign of the Times	It’s a Sign of the Times	02:39
John Arpin	Gladiolus Rag (1907)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:11
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Petite Waltz	Reminiscing: Featuring Teddy Roderman, trombonist	02:05
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Moon River	Toronto Instrumental	02:13
Guido Basso	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	Christmas Today	03:13
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose?	Do Something Nice Today!	02:30
Vic Centro Sextet	Gone With the Wind	ST	02:15
Guido Basso	Megantic Outlaw	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:37
John Arpin	Bethena	Concert In Ragtime	05:56
Hagood Hardy	I Won't Last a Day without You	The Homecoming	03:55
Ivy Steel	Willow Weep for Me	Reincarnation	04:44
Moe Koffman	Flute Salad	The Shepherd Swings Again	03:38
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Espresso	Sailin' Home	05:30
Denny Vaughan	Abergavenny	Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra	02:24
Jimmy Namaro	Over the Rainbow	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:28
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Delta Dawn	Do Something Nice Today!	02:35
Denny Vaughan	The Girl I Left Behind Me	Girls I Knew	03:02
Doug Crosley	Hogtown (Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	03:00
The Laurie Bower Singers	Woman	Got a Feelin' for Love	03:20
Doug Randle	A Sleepin' Bee (Elan Stuart, vocalist)	Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists	04:09
Guido Basso	Lost in the Stars (Kurt Weill)	Lost in the Stars	06:08
Russ Little	Out On a Limb	Snapshot	04:05
Hagood Hardy	Watching Through the Night	Maybe Tomorrow	03:40
Compilation	Ted Komar - Papirossew	CBC Comp 409	02:23
Vic Centro Sextet	Serenata	ST	02:03
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Chips & Gravy (Nimmons)	Now!	04:40
The Brian Browne Trio	Killing Me Softly	Toronto Instrumental	02:20
Joyce Sullivan	Say it Isn't So	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	03:02
Bill Badgley	Music to Watch Girls By	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:29

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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