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	Share the Land	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	03:09
Alex Read & His Tin Pan Alley Cats	Rag Medley (Rogers)	From CBC Toronto (split with Pat Riccio Orchestra (LM 09)	02:00
John Arpin	You are the Sunshine of My Life	Direct to Disc	02:58
Russ Little	Blue Skies	Slow Burn	05:21
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	The Pink Panther	The Old Meets the New	03:24
Guido Basso	Santa Claus Is Coming To Town	Christmas Today	02:39
Guido Basso	Put Your Hand in the Hand	Love Talk	03:20
Ed Bickert	Where Is the One	Out of the Past	05:26
Hagood Hardy	Winter Time	The Christmas Album	02:19
Jimmy Namaro	Morrocco	At the Westbury	03:23
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Knock Three Times	Do Something Nice Today!	02:32
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	One for Mr. 'B'	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	06:43
Ben McPeek	Alouette	The Original Sounds of	02:20
Ben McPeek	Mynah Merengue	The Original Sounds of	02:30
Peter Appleyard	Puff the Magic Dragon	The Vibraphone Of	02:08
Denny Vaughan	Lucky Day (This Is My Lucky Day)	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:52
Norman Amadio Trio	Nica's Dream	ST	02:13
Russ Little	My Mama Told Me So	Slow Burn	06:04
Teddy Roderman	Sunny	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	02:11
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Sailin' Home	Sailin' Home	04:15
Eugene Amaro	Send In The Clowns	Warm	03:17
Guido Basso	'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk)	Lost in the Stars	03:45
Lenny Breau	Autumn Leaves	Mo' Breau	02:01
Guido Basso	Ill Wind	One More for the Road	05:15
Carol McCartney	I Thought About You	A Night in Tunisia	04:51
Moe Koffman	Sure It Is	The Shepherd Swings Again	03:37
Paul Zaza	Sun Ranch	Coasting (with Isaacs)	02:11
Peter Appleyard	Night Journey	Peter Appleyard Presents	04:09
Guido Basso	Ten Little Indians	It's Happening	02:07
Hagood Hardy	It's Sad to Belong to Someone Else	Tell Me My Name	03:10
The Laurie Bower Singers	Don't Blame Me	Laurie Bower	04:03
Paul Zaza	Sevillianas	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	01:13
The Mutual Understanding	When The World Was Young	In Wonderland	03:49
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Maple Leaf Rag	+ Horn = Dixie	03:24
Paul Zaza	Follow the Sun	Faces and Places	02:18
Lucio Agostini	Tuxedo Junction Cha Cha	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	02:27
Lucio Agostini	Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	03:03
Boogus	Cow Cow Boogie	CBC Comp 403 comp	02:24
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Chips & Gravy (Nimmons)	Now!	04:40
Joyce Sullivan	You'll Never Know	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	02:47
Lucio Agostini	Mulberry Bush	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	01:46
Phil Nimmons Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine - Watch Out for the Little People	Strictly Nimmons	04:25
Jimmy Namaro	Lara's Theme	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:20
Jerry Toth	Last Tango In Paris	The Twelve Sides Of	02:38
John Arpin	Softly	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	02:39
Hagood Hardy	Don't Give up on Us	Tell Me My Name	02:52
Doug Crosley	Hogtown (Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	03:00
Joyce Sullivan	Friendly Star	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	02:50
Doug Riley	Shoot	Freedom	08:56
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Lush Life	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	04:01
Terry Watada	Only Dreams	Night's Disgrace	04:47
Johnny Cowell	Raphael Mendez - Virgin de la Macarena (arranged by Johnny Cowell)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	04:15
Jimmy Namaro	Up a Lazy River	We Gotta Get It All Together	03:54
Peter Appleyard	Soulful Strut	The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)	02:53
Guido Basso	Canada	It's Happening	01:54
Vic Centro Sextet	Serenata	ST	02:03
Compilation	Phil Nimmons Quartet - It Ain't Necessarily So	CBC Comp 409	02:49
John Arpin	Troubadour Rag (1919)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:16
Doug Randle	The Doug Randle Orchestra - This Can't Be Love	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	02:24
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Wise Guys	+ Horn = Dixie	03:09
Eugene Amaro	Strangers In The Night	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	02:42
Hagood Hardy	Travellin' On	The Homecoming	03:04
Johnny Cowell	Playful Trumpets	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	03:19
Ben McPeek	Downtown	His Voices and His Orchestra	03:00
Henry Cuesta	Rose Garden	Plays Favourites	02:12
Yorkville Avenue Band	Watcha' Gonna Do When the Rent Comes Round	"Moving Day"	03:31
Carol McCartney	The Shadow of Your Smile	A Night in Tunisia	05:38
The Brian Browne Trio	The Brian Browne Trio - Bluesette	The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)	03:30
Johnny Cowell	You Made Me Love You (Harry James)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:12
Johnny Cowell	Road of Love	Our Winter Love	02:22
Rick Wilkins	Why Think About Tomorrow	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	05:43
Don Thompson 'D.T.'	Rockin' Good Way	Bluesprint	04:32
Ivy Steel	Robbin’s Nest	Reincarnation	03:27
Paul Zaza	Fiesta Romantica	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	04:35
Ivy Steel	Don’t Explain	Reincarnation	04:26
Teddy Roderman	Oops	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	02:42
Ivy Steel	Travelling Light	Reincarnation	03:59
Peter Appleyard	Dragnet	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:11
John Arpin	Tickled to Death	Concert In Ragtime	01:57
Paul Zaza	Hollywood Hills	Faces and Places	02:30
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Music To Watch Girls By	The Now Sound	01:59
Denny Vaughan	Hi Neighbor	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:46
Peter Appleyard	The Man That Got Away	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:37
Peter Appleyard	The Last Blues Song	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:40
Peter Appleyard	We'll Never Know	The Vibraphone Of	02:14
Moe Koffman	Hambourg Bound	Cool and Hot Sax	04:05
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Bali Ha'I	ST	03:42
Bill Badgley	June	At the Ports of Call	02:26
Lenny Breau	Blues Theme #2	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	02:33
Lucio Agostini	Canadians at Work	Once Upon a Hundred Years	01:45
Compilation	Dave Young & Oscar Peterson - OP&D	Jazz Toronto	05:45
The Laurie Bower Singers	The Rose	Laurie Bower	03:31
The Laurie Bower Singers	Early Morning Rain	Feelin'	02:53
Lenny Breau	You Needed Me	ST	04:33
Moe Koffman	Marty's Morgue	The Shepherd Swings Again	03:33
Moe Koffman	L'il Bitty Pretty One	Moe's Curried Soul	03:56
Jimmy Dale	Triste	Soft and Groovy	03:05
Johnny Cowell	Shag	Our Winter Love	01:57
Phil Nimmons Group	Fascinating Rhythm	Nimmons 'N' Nine	08:12
Knights of the Round Flugel	Toot-Suite (Grosney)	Bye Bye Love	03:02

The Toronto Jazz Scene

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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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