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
Denny Vaughan	An Affair to Remember	Girls I Knew	02:49
Guido Basso	Tour de Force (live) (Dizzy Gillespie)	Lost in the Stars	06:42
Denny Vaughan	Three For Two	A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"	01:51
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Canadian Sunset	It’s a Sign of the Times	02:36
Bill Badgley	Sand and Sea	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:59
Ben McPeek	Undun	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	02:37
Compilation	Catherine Mckinnon - Nova Scotia Farewell	CBC Comp 409	02:30
Guido Basso	Martelli	And All That Latin Jazz!	02:35
Ben McPeek	Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady	Thinking of You	03:20
Lucio Agostini	Taxi	Action With Agostini	02:12
Guido Basso	Anniversary Song	It's Happening	02:09
Hagood Hardy	Never-Never Land	Stop 33 Sutton Place	03:00
Paul Zaza	Peace River	Images	02:46
Lucio Agostini	La Paloma Azul (Sweet Little Mountain Bird)	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	02:01
Paul Zaza	Autumn Reflections	Images	02:56
Peter Appleyard	Softly as in a Morning Sunrise	The Vibraphone Of	02:37
Compilation	Talk to the Animals (arranged by Ray Sikora)	Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical	02:23
The Laurie Bower Singers	Love Will Turn You Around	Laurie Bower	03:48
Peter Appleyard	Wave	The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)	02:27
Jimmy Namaro	Hammering Home	With Mallets A 4 Thought	02:41
Paul Zaza	Canadian Express	Faces and Places	02:08
Johnny Cowell	Arioso	The Virtuoso Trumpet	03:00
Rick Wilkins	Why Think About Tomorrow	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	05:43
Pat Riccio	In To Miami (Barry)	From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)	02:15
Rick Wilkins	Amarillo	My Heart Belongs to Me	03:21
Jimmy Namaro	Body and Soul	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	03:19
Peter Appleyard	Peter Gunn	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:57
The Mutual Understanding	Pretty People	In Wonderland	02:59
Ed Bickert	Nobody Else But Me	Bye Bye Baby	04:58
Henry Cuesta	Skyline Stomp	Plays Favourites	02:08
Lenny Breau	Mister Night	ST	04:45
Bill Butler	A Portrait of a Piano	Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler	02:14
Johnny Cowell	Hora Stacatto (Doc Severinson and Raphael Mendez)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:23
Peter Appleyard	The Man With The Golden Arm	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:39
Teddy Roderman	Up-Up and Away	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	01:40
Phil Nimmons Group	Last Night When We Were Young	Take 10	04:29
Ed Bickert	Have You Met Miss Jones	Out of the Past	05:34
Eugene Amaro	Last Time I Felt Like This	Warm	03:19
Lenny Breau	No Greater Love	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	07:10
Johnny Cowell	Oops	His Girl	01:47
John Arpin	Wild Cherries Rag (1908)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:13
John Arpin	Excelsior Rag (1909)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:06
Jerry Toth	Tell Me Now	Tell Me Now b/w It's a Great Life (with The Gossips)	02:50
Hagood Hardy	Christmas Waltz	The Christmas Album	02:58
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Adios Muchachos	Trombone - Teddy Roderman	02:59
The Laurie Bower Singers	Daybreak	Looks Like We Made It	02:45
The Mutual Understanding	You Fascinate Me	In Wonderland	03:12
Lucio Agostini	Mulberry Bush	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	01:46
Jimmy Namaro	Man of La Mancha	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:04
The Laurie Bower Singers	If You Feel	Got a Feelin' for Love	02:40
Lucio Agostini	Once Upon a Hundred Years (Theme)	Once Upon a Hundred Years	07:24
Eugene Amaro	Midnight Blue	Twilight Time	02:53
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Up, Up & Away	The Now Sound	03:01
2B3	Denis Keldie, Rob Gusevs - One Love - People Get Ready	The Toronto Sessions	06:38
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Harlem Nocturne	The Old Meets the New	03:34
Jimmy Dale	If	Toronto Instrumental	02:18
John Arpin	Bethena	Concert In Ragtime	05:56
Lenny Breau	I Remember Hank	Mo' Breau	05:18
Eugene Amaro	To Spend My Love	Twilight Time	02:30
Jerry Toth	Portrait of Caroline	The Classic Jerry Toth	02:34
Rick Wilkins	You Can Have Me Anytime	Discovery	03:28
Denny Vaughan	Hi-Lili Hi-Lo	Girls I Knew	02:25
Paul Zaza	Beautiful People	Coasting (with Isaacs)	02:30
Moe Koffman	Swingin' Explorer	Goes Electric	02:43
Moe Koffman	The Calm (Adagio)	The Four Seasons	01:59
Ivy Steel	Prelude to a Kiss	Reincarnation	04:55
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Vinaroz	Halifax Instrumental	02:58
Ben McPeek	Colonel Bogey	The Original Sounds of	02:43
Doug Crosley	Good Morning (Babs Babineau and Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	02:59
Hagood Hardy	Juarez '62	Reflections	03:13
Phil Nimmons Group	A Spoonful of Sugar	Mary Popppins Swings	04:07
Peter Appleyard	This Masquerade	ST	03:01
Joyce Sullivan	The Anniversary Song	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	02:46
Russ Little	Don't Go Breaking My Heart	Ain't No Mountain High Enough	01:48
Terry Watada	The Hawk Cries a Bitter Blue	Night's Disgrace	05:53
Guido Basso	My Foolish Heart	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	07:13
Jimmy Dale	Guanabara	Soft and Groovy	02:42
Henry Cuesta	Way Down Deep	Plays Favourites	02:06
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	The Garden Path	Montage	03:19
Russ Little	Out On a Limb	Snapshot	04:05
Peter Appleyard	Moon Glow	The Vibe Sound Of	02:59
Guido Basso	Nightcap	It's Happening	02:16
The Laurie Bower Singers	Epilogue	Morning Has Broken	00:37
Hagood Hardy	Gary - A Remembrance	As Time Goes By	02:52
The Laurie Bower Singers	Rain Brings People Together	Wish I Was A Plane	03:12
Hagood Hardy	Sonny's Ragtime	Reflections	02:09
Doug Randle	Put On Your Sunday Clothes	Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists	02:40
Moe Koffman	Bei Mir Bist Du Schön	Cool and Hot Sax	03:12
Kathryn Moses	Midnight	ST	08:32
The Brian Browne Trio	The Brian Browne Trio - Fair Weather	The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)	03:57
Denny Vaughan	Good Morning Starshine	Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra	02:53
Paul Zaza	Guitarra Espana	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	01:56
Phil Nimmons Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine - Gone With the Blues	Strictly Nimmons	06:05
Peter Appleyard	If	ST	03:29
Doug Randle	One Way Swimming	Songs for the New Industrial State	04:04
Russ Little	Lucretia Macevil (David Clayton-Thomas)	Deeper and Deeper	03:03
Paul Zaza	Flight to the Sun	Faces and Places	04:06
The Laurie Bower Singers	Rhumba Girl	It Goes Like It Goes	03:30
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Blues Blow (Straight Ahead!)	Now!	04:46
Peter Appleyard	Soulful Strut	The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)	02:53

The Toronto Jazz Scene

Tracks

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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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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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