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
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	I Told You So	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	07:28
Hagood Hardy	Sonny's Ragtime	Reflections	02:09
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Theme for Susan	Trombone - Teddy Roderman	02:40
Don Gillis	Baby It's Alright	Baby It's Alright (featuring Moe Koffman (Toronto Flutist))	03:10
Compilation	Ted Komar - Bela Bimba	CBC Comp 409	02:24
Hagood Hardy	If I Had Nothing But a Dream	Reflections	02:51
Lucio Agostini	Up, Up and a Bull	Once Upon a Hundred Years	02:22
Herb Marshall	Make it With You (David Gates - Bread)	Toronto Vocalist	01:48
Compilation	Indian Summer City	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	03:25
Ben McPeek	A Taste of Honey	His Voices and His Orchestra	02:42
Peter Appleyard	Mambo Inn	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:25
The Laurie Bower Singers	Mississippi	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:00
Guido Basso	Second Chance	One More for the Road	04:11
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Midnight Bells	Reminiscing: Featuring Teddy Roderman, trombonist	04:22
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
Norman Amadio Trio	Alleluia D.T.'s.	ST	01:57
Bill Badgley	June	At the Ports of Call	02:26
Rick Wilkins	Just The Way You Are	For the Sake of Music	04:05
Guido Basso	You're Nearer	One More for the Road	06:03
Johnny Cowell	Carnival of Venice (Herbert L. Clarke)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:56
Phil Nimmons Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six - Nosey	Strictly Nimmons	05:38
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	One 'O' Nine	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	06:53
The Laurie Bower Singers	Here's That Rainy Day	Feelin'	02:13
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Delta Dawn	Do Something Nice Today!	02:35
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Transformations: 2nd movement	Transformations - Invocations	07:39
Lucio Agostini	Introduction	Once Upon a Hundred Years	05:04
Jimmy Namaro	African Echoes	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:09
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Petite Waltz	Reminiscing: Featuring Teddy Roderman, trombonist	02:05
Hagood Hardy	You and Me Against the World	The Homecoming	03:31
Guido Basso	Besame Mucho (Consuelo Velazquez)	Lost in the Stars	05:15
Carol McCartney	Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye	A Night in Tunisia	04:46
Phil Nimmons Group	On the Autobahn	Take 10	06:55
Lenny Breau	Freight Train	Guitar Sounds From	03:31
Compilation	Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass - The Duke	Jazz Toronto	04:00
Peter Appleyard	Mack The Knife	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:36
Doug Crosley	Hogtown (Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	03:00
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Won't You Step Into My Life	The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life	02:27
Moe Koffman	The Storm (Presto)	The Four Seasons	01:54
The Laurie Bower Singers	I Think It's Gonna Rain on Me Today	Take Me Home Country Roads	03:29
Rick Wilkins	If You Remember Me	Discovery	02:48
Bill Badgley	Theme from "The Sand Pebbles"	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:17
John Arpin	Love and Maple Syrup	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	01:37
Moe Koffman	Sunshower (Allegro)	The Four Seasons	04:23
Peter Appleyard	Tenderly	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:01
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Black and Blue	Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read	02:45
Eugene Amaro	Something About You	Twilight Time	03:18
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Maple Leaf Rag	+ Horn = Dixie	03:24
Compilation	Phil Nimmons Quartet - There'll be Some Changes Made	CBC Comp 409	02:09
Doug Randle	Warm in the Sunshine	Songs for the New Industrial State	02:48
Guido Basso	Suite P.E.I.	Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert	17:40
Peter Appleyard	The Linconshire Poacher	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:40
Rick Wilkins	Holiday	Discovery	03:18
The Laurie Bower Singers	Everything Old is New Again	Looks Like We Made It	02:26
Bill Badgley	In the Arms of Love	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:34
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Canadiana 67	It’s a Sign of the Times	02:04
Moe Koffman	In the Mood	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:09
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Hideaway (Barbara Moore)	ST	02:25
John Arpin	Cabaret	Direct to Disc	02:28
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	Old Fashioned Way	Toronto Instrumental	02:42
Paul Zaza	Portrait of a Rose	Faces and Places	02:47
Peter Appleyard	Lazy Silhouettes	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:54
Paul Zaza	Foxy Lady	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	02:54
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Auf Widersehn	The Old Meets the New	03:04
Paul Zaza	For Julia	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	03:22
Compilation	Phil Nimmons Quartet - Stompin' at the Savoy	CBC Comp 409	02:41
Henry Cuesta	Singin' My Song	Plays Favourites	02:23
Doug Riley	Roads Travelled & Days Gone By	Freedom	04:54
Ron Collier Tentet	Fair Wind	ST	02:49
Ed Bickert	Soft Winds	Out of the Past	08:01
Jimmy Dale	Uncle Albert - Admiral Halsey	Toronto Instrumental	02:49
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Sweet Leilani	ST	02:39
Peter Appleyard	Angel Eyes	The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)	03:14
Lucio Agostini	Tutti Flutti	Action With Agostini	02:42
Guido Basso	What A Friend	It's Happening	02:31
Jackie Richardson	If I Could Only Sleep	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	05:49
Ben McPeek	Soon It's Gonna Rain	The Original Sounds of	03:09
Guido Basso	Cuminha Cruzado	And All That Latin Jazz!	02:45
Eugene Amaro	Twilight Time	Twilight Time	02:45
The Laurie Bower Singers	Early Morning Rain	Feelin'	02:53
Boogus	Roller Queen	CBC Comp 403 comp	03:11
The Laurie Bower Singers	I Wish That I Was Making Love (To You Tonight)	Laurie Bower	03:17
Guido Basso	Christmas Waltz	Christmas Today	02:10
Moe Koffman	Twist That Thing	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:05
Rick Wilkins	Summer Song	For the Sake of Music	03:34
Doug Riley	Freedom	Freedom	04:34
Don Thompson 'D.T.'	Just You, Just Me (vocals Dianne Brooks)	Bluesprint	05:45
The Laurie Bower Singers	The Way I Want	Got a Feelin' for Love	02:28
Terry Watada	Yellow Fever	Yellow Fever	03:59
2B3	Doug Riley, Bill Payne - Drown in My Own Tears	The Toronto Sessions	03:41
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Wave	Do Something Nice Today!	02:47
The Laurie Bower Singers	Boney Fingers	Back Home Again	02:26
The Brian Browne Trio	Misty Roses	Toronto Instrumental	02:22
Jimmy Dale	Bye Bye	Soft and Groovy	02:42
Tommy Ambrose	I Don't Hurt Anymore	Young Tommy Ambrose	02:31
Rick Wilkins	A Wish Away	For the Sake of Music	03:17
Peter Appleyard	The Man That Got Away	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:37
Compilation	Roy Patterson - Inland Passages Suite: Part II: The Road Song	Jazz Toronto	04:19
Johnny Cowell	Ruby Begonia	Hot Brass	02:24
Lenny Breau	Secret Love	Minor's Aloud	05:10
Doug Randle	Isn't it a Pity	Songs for the New Industrial State	03:18

The Toronto Jazz Scene

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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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Denny Vaughan - Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By

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Ron Collier Orchestra & Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington: "North of the Border" in Canada

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Ron Collier Tentet - ST

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Ed Bickert - The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)

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Joyce Sullivan - The Songs of Joyce Sullivan

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Johnny Cowell - His Girl

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