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
Hagood Hardy	Will You Still be Mine?	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:13
Tony Quarrington	Princesse en Promenade	One Bright Morning	13:06
Compilation	Phil Nimmons Quartet - There is No Greater Love	CBC Comp 409	02:50
Moe Koffman	Icicle Bells (Allegro)	The Four Seasons	05:31
Ron Collier Tentet	I Feel Pretty	ST	02:30
Peter Appleyard	What I Did For Love	ST	02:57
Jimmy Namaro	Pubba and The Puddy	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:12
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
Peter Appleyard	Pavanne pour une infante défunte	Peter Appleyard Presents	04:29
Henry Cuesta	Brand New Morning	Clarinet With Strings	02:17
Compilation	Eve Smith - I Care	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	03:13
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Chips & Gravy (Nimmons)	Now!	04:40
Phil Nimmons Group	Chim chim cheree	Mary Popppins Swings	03:55
Guido Basso	Ramblin	It's Happening (re-issue)	02:15
Eugene Amaro	To Spend My Love	Twilight Time	02:30
Colina Phillips	Universal Prisoner	Toronto Vocalist	02:33
Compilation	Jane Bunnett - Rendez-Vous	Jazz Toronto	04:56
Lucio Agostini	Linstead Market	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	02:01
Guido Basso	Goofus	It's Happening	02:32
Bill Badgley	How Insensitive	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	01:47
Johnny Cowell	Anatomy of a Girl	It's Gotta Be Love	02:18
Russ Little	Cold Duck Time	Snapshot	05:15
Jimmy Dale	Stranger in Paradise	Profiles	03:46
The Laurie Bower Singers	Think	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:24
Lucio Agostini	March Wind	Action With Agostini	03:19
Bill Badgley	After The Lovin'	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	03:06
The Laurie Bower Singers	If You Feel The Way I Do	The Rose And The Rain	02:40
Teddy Roderman	That's Life	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	02:00
Jimmy Namaro	We Gotta Get it All Together	We Gotta Get It All Together	04:50
Kathryn Moses	Ready or Not	ST	03:39
Compilation	Indian Summer City	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	03:25
Joyce Sullivan	The Anniversary Song	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	02:46
Johnny Cowell	To Love Somebody	The Tender Loving Care	02:37
Denny Vaughan	Fine and Dandy	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:38
Boogus	Take Your Clothes Off	CBC Comp 403 comp	02:49
Johnny Cowell	Every Single Day	The Tender Loving Care	02:32
Jimmy Namaro	Night Sounds	At the Westbury	02:54
Ben McPeek	Happy Talk	His Voices and His Orchestra	02:13
Don Thompson 'D.T.'	One Cylinder	Bluesprint	04:47
Ben McPeek	If You Could Read My Mind	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	03:34
Swing Sisters	I Believe In Miracles	Davenport Blues	02:29
Paul Zaza	Portrait of a Rose	Faces and Places	02:47
Russ Little	Ain't No Mountain High Enough	Ain't No Mountain High Enough	02:13
Norman Amadio Trio	The Very Thought of You	ST	03:07
Compilation	Catherine Mckinnon - Cape St Marys	CBC Comp 409	03:05
Fred Stone	Elissa	The Music of Fred Stone	07:25
Henry Cuesta	Lonely is the Name	Clarinet With Strings	03:00
The Laurie Bower Singers	Rock With You	When You Say Goodbye	03:18
Rick Wilkins	A Wish Away	For the Sake of Music	03:17
The Laurie Bower Singers	Sundown	Back Home Again	03:13
Rick Wilkins	We Will Love Again	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	04:48
The Laurie Bower Singers	Peaceful	Wish I Was A Plane	02:38
Ivy Steel	Now or Never	Reincarnation	02:35
2B3	Michael Fonfara, Lance Anderson - Magic Carpet Ride	The Toronto Sessions	06:38
Ed Bickert	Where Is the One	Out of the Past	05:26
Jackie Richardson	Too Beautiful to Know	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	00:56
Vic Centro Sextet	Serenata	ST	02:03
Peter Appleyard	Undecided	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:24
Paul Zaza	Dancing Lights	Faces and Places	02:16
Moe Koffman	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	Goes Electric	02:43
Peter Appleyard	Fascinating Rhythm	The Vibe Sound Of	02:45
Russ Little	Where Can I Go Without You?	Snapshot	06:02
Tommy Ambrose	Please Send Me Someone to Love	Young Tommy Ambrose	03:48
Ed Bickert	A Flower Is A Lonesome Thing	Bye Bye Baby	05:32
John Arpin	Dance in the Old Fashioned Way	Direct to Disc	02:48
Guido Basso	Christmas Waltz	Christmas Today	02:10
Denny Vaughan	A Very Precious Love	Girls I Knew	02:02
Bill Badgley	Georgy Girl	At the Ports of Call	01:59
Ben McPeek	Mame	The Original Sounds of	03:04
Peter Appleyard	Tenderly	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:01
Jimmy Namaro	One of a Kind Mambo	With Mallets A 4 Thought	02:29
Bill Badgley	Fernando	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	03:39
Jimmy Namaro	I Cover The Waterfront	At the Westbury	02:15
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
Compilation	Ben McPeek - For Lovin' Me	Motorcars In Concert 1970	01:52
Rick Wilkins	Tetra Tetra	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	06:00
Compilation	This Could be the Start of Something Big (arranged by Bruce Cassidy)	Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical	03:09
Phil Nimmons Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine - Gone With the Blues	Strictly Nimmons	06:05
Fred Stone	For Igor	The Music of Fred Stone	07:46
Johnny Cowell	Lonely Trumpet	The Virtuoso Trumpet	03:06
Lenny Breau	Back In Indiana (Hanley & MacDonald)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	04:01
Compilation	Season of the Yonge	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	03:07
2B3	Denis Keldie, Richard Bell - King Harvest	The Toronto Sessions	03:50
Pat Riccio	Stranger on the Shore (Bilk-Mellin)	From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)	02:23
Russ Little	Friday Night at the Cadillac Club	On the Shoulders of Giants	05:51
Ben McPeek	American Woman	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	03:37
Moe Koffman	The Swingin' Shepherd Blues	Goes Electric	02:51
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Espresso	Sailin' Home	05:30
Jerry Toth	Portrait of Caroline	The Classic Jerry Toth	02:34
Jerry Toth	It's a Great Life	The Music Of	02:09
Jimmy Namaro	Too Marvellous For Words	At the Westbury	02:05
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	The Pink Panther	The Old Meets the New	03:24
Sanderlings	Love One Another (Trevor Jones)	With The Jim Pirie Orchestra	03:08
Terry Watada	Kyoto Romance	Yellow Fever	03:37
Phil Nimmons Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six - The Thirsty Blues	Strictly Nimmons	02:59
John Arpin	Leola	Concert In Ragtime	03:16
Doug Riley	Peace Dance	Freedom	06:24
Kathryn Moses	Prince Charming's Brother	ST	04:01
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	This Guy's In Love With You (Bacharach-David)	Now!	03:14
Bill Butler	Intermezzo	Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler	02:44

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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