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
Compilation	Brian Hughes - The Bridge	Jazz Toronto	04:58
Ben McPeek	Downtown	His Voices and His Orchestra	03:00
Denny Vaughan	Ain't We Got Fun	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:57
2B3	Doug Riley, Bill Payne - Drown in My Own Tears	The Toronto Sessions	03:41
Guido Basso	Lush Life	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	06:26
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	The Sound of Silver	ST	03:20
The Laurie Bower Singers	Up On Cripple Creek	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:14
Jimmy Namaro	Up a Lazy River	We Gotta Get It All Together	03:54
Guido Basso	Trust in Me	And All That Latin Jazz!	02:35
Bill Badgley	Moon Love	At the Ports of Call	02:16
Guido Basso	Tequila	It's Happening	02:43
Doug Riley	Roads Travelled & Days Gone By	Freedom	04:54
Moe Koffman	Soul Finger	Turned on	02:20
Wally Koster	September Song	The Songs of Wally Koster	03:16
Doug Crosley	Sing a Happy Song (Babs Babineau, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	04:01
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life	Do Something Nice Today!	03:14
Bill Badgley	Music to Watch Girls By	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:29
Johnny Cowell	Herman Bellstedt - Napoli (arranged by Johnny Cowell)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	04:48
Peter Appleyard	Avalon	The Vibe Sound Of	02:33
Jimmy Namaro	Love For Sale	At the Westbury	04:02
Moe Koffman	If I Were a Carpenter	Turned on	02:32
Ben McPeek	Share the Land	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	03:09
Moe Koffman	Song for My Father	Turned on	02:54
Hagood Hardy	Rain, Rain	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:50
Jackie Richardson	I Alone	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	00:27
Ed Bickert	They All Laughed	I Like To Recognize the Tune	02:43
Compilation	Brian Dickinson - Alone Together	Jazz Toronto	04:52
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Bess You is My Woman	Trombone - Teddy Roderman	03:19
Doug Randle	Nicolston Dam	Songs for the New Industrial State	03:11
2B3	Michael Fonfara, Rob Gusevs - Burnin' at the Stake	The Toronto Sessions	04:59
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	How I Think of You	Montage	02:47
Guido Basso	Too Late Now	Love Talk	03:19
Paul Hoffert	Grotto Walk	The Jazz Roots of	02:48
Teddy Roderman	Lovers Roulette	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	01:54
Phil Nimmons Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine - Ed's Comp	Strictly Nimmons	06:15
Ed Bickert	Sunday Kind of Love	I Like To Recognize the Tune	03:36
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Invocation: Bronze (The Contest)	Transformations - Invocations	08:32
Peter Appleyard	What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:46
Doug Randle	Colored Plastics	Songs for the New Industrial State	03:43
Ben McPeek	Thinking of You	Thinking of You	02:15
Doug Randle	You´d be so Nice to Come Home to (Doug Crosley, vocalist)	Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists	02:18
Lucio Agostini	Once Upon a Hundred Years (Theme)	Once Upon a Hundred Years	07:24
Vic Centro Sextet	Serenata	ST	02:03
Terry Watada	Crazy Love	Night's Disgrace	05:32
Compilation	Manteca - Salsa Nova	Jazz Toronto	05:40
Rick Wilkins	My Heart Belongs to Me	My Heart Belongs to Me	03:16
Peter Appleyard	Night Journey	Peter Appleyard Presents	04:09
Johnny Cowell	For What it's Worth	It's Gotta Be Love	02:35
Moe Koffman	Flute Twist	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:10
Ben McPeek	Everything's Alright	Peace Train	02:46
Ben McPeek	Talk It Over In The Morning	Peace Train	02:21
Paul Zaza	Dancing Lights	Faces and Places	02:16
Johnny Cowell	Winds of Chance	Our Winter Love	01:47
Lenny Breau	Hard Day's Night	Guitar Sounds From	04:12
Peter Appleyard	Dragnet	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:11
Teddy Roderman	Meditation	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	02:10
Hagood Hardy	Quorum	The Homecoming	04:14
Rick Wilkins	Somewhere Along the Way	My Heart Belongs to Me	02:57
Eugene Amaro	Twilight Time	Twilight Time	02:45
The Laurie Bower Singers	Southern Nights	Looks Like We Made It	02:57
Jimmy Namaro	Over the Rainbow	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:28
Tommy Ambrose	Margie	Young Tommy Ambrose	02:04
Guido Basso	Ten Little Indians	It's Happening	02:07
Jimmy Namaro	Lazy Afternoon	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:28
Rick Wilkins	Junk	My Heart Belongs to Me	02:58
Ron Collier Orchestra & Duke Ellington	Silent Night, Lonely Night	Duke Ellington: "North of the Border" in Canada	03:02
Teddy Roderman	Autumn Concerto	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	01:43
Lenny Breau	Anytime (Herbert Lawson)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	03:47
Jimmy Dale	Alone Again, Naturally	Toronto Instrumental	02:55
Moe Koffman	Harvest Festival (Allegro)	The Four Seasons	05:40
Moe Koffman	Exodus	Tales of Koffman	04:29
Jimmy Namaro	Lara's Theme	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:20
Hagood Hardy	Winter Time	The Christmas Album	02:19
Doug Crosley	When I Met You (Babs Babineau and Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	02:38
Peter Appleyard	Who Needs It	Peter Appleyard Presents	03:11
Teddy Roderman	Beautiful Second Hand Man	Makin' It With You	02:34
Peter Appleyard	Moon Glow	The Vibe Sound Of	02:59
The Laurie Bower Singers	Just To Be Alone With You	You	02:39
Phil Nimmons Group	Squeeze Play	Take 10	03:58
Bill Badgley	Wednesday's Child	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:51
Ivy Steel	Easy Living	Reincarnation	05:03
Ed Bickert	Nancy With the Laughing Face	ST	04:46
Peter Appleyard	Swinging Shepherd Blues	Peter Appleyard Presents	03:35
Lenny Breau	Music to Watch Girls By	Guitar Sounds From	04:29
The Laurie Bower Singers	Don't Blame Me	Laurie Bower	04:03
Bill Badgley	How Insensitive	At the Ports of Call	01:48
Terry Watada	If I Sing the Blues	Yellow Fever	03:45
Ron Collier Tentet	Come Sunday	ST	03:02
Peter Appleyard	Tico Tico	ST	02:25
The Mutual Understanding	You Fascinate Me	In Wonderland	03:12
Colina Phillips	Never Had it So Good	Toronto Vocalist	03:23
Compilation	Jerry Toth - It's a Great Life	Motorcars In Concert 1970	02:09
The Laurie Bower Singers	Una Paloma	Got a Feelin' for Love	03:23
Ron Collier Tentet	I Believe In You	ST	02:59
Denny Vaughan	Northern Dancer	A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"	01:43
Johnny Cowell	Carmichael & Parrish (arranged by Johnny Cowell) - Stardust	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	03:49
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Bali Ha'I	ST	03:42
The Laurie Bower Singers	Lay it On Me	Take Me Home Country Roads	02:06
Joyce Sullivan	Grandfather's Clock	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	02:33
The Laurie Bower Singers	Shadow Song	Wish I Was A Plane	03:14

The Toronto Jazz Scene

Tracks

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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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Jimmy Namaro - We Gotta Get It All Together

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Johnny Cowell - His Girl

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Ed Bickert - ST

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Ed Bickert - Bye Bye Baby

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Ed Bickert - I Like To Recognize the Tune

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The Brian Browne Trio - The Toronto Scene

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The Brian Browne Trio - Toronto Instrumental

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