The Toronto Jazz Scene

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
Peter Appleyard The Man That Got Away Per-cus-sive Jazz
Yorkville Avenue Band Quite Contrary "Moving Day"
Lucio Agostini Black Rose (Lucio Agostini) Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass
Jimmy Namaro Up a Lazy River We Gotta Get It All Together
Ben McPeek One Less Bell To Answer Peace Train
Pat Riccio Watermelon Man (Hancock) From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra Summer Wind And I Love Her
Johnny Cowell Playful Trumpets His Girl
Compilation Catherine Mckinnon - She's Like the Swallow CBC Comp 409
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra I'll Be With You in Appleblossom Time Reminiscing: Featuring Teddy Roderman, trombonist
Moe Koffman Overture To Summer (Allegro) The Four Seasons
Henry Cuesta Just a Closer Walk with Thee Clarinet With Strings
Peter Appleyard Night Journey Peter Appleyard Presents
The Laurie Bower Singers Lotta Love When You Say Goodbye
Guido Basso You are My Sunshine It's Happening (re-issue)
Paul Hoffert Phoenix The Jazz Roots of
Johnny Cowell Girl On A Roller Coaster His Girl
Phil Nimmons Group Just You, Just Me Nimmons 'N' Nine
John Arpin Sleepy Hollow Rag Concert In Ragtime
Hagood Hardy Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas The Christmas Album
Moe Koffman Anteater's Dance Moe's Curried Soul
Compilation Fifes and Feathers Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?
Peter Appleyard Liza The Vibe Sound Of
The Laurie Bower Singers Silver Bird Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Goin' Out Of My Head The Now Sound
Yorkville Avenue Band The Big Noise From Vinnetka "Moving Day"
Wally Koster September Song The Songs of Wally Koster
Jerry Toth To Wait for Love The Music Of
Phil Nimmons Group Nimmons 'N' Nine - Gone With the Blues Strictly Nimmons
The Laurie Bower Singers Bye Bye Love Laurie Bower
Jerry Toth Here's That Rainy Day The Music Of
Vic Centro Sextet The Moon Was Yellow ST
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Auf Widersehn The Old Meets the New
Ben McPeek Goodbye If Only We Could See b/w Goodbye
Jerry Toth The Importance of the Rose The Music Of
Doug Randle Do You Know That Fella (Is a Friend of Mine) Nicolston Dam b/w Do You Know That Fella (Is a Friend of Mine)
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Medley: String of Pearls - Little Brown Jug - Chatanooga Choo Choo Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra Blue Mantilla ST
Guido Basso Ramblin' It's Happening
Sanderlings Roller Coaster Ride (Bob Ruzicka) With The Jim Pirie Orchestra
Phil Nimmons Group Kicks Nimmons 'N' Nine
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Watermelon Man The Now Sound
Eugene Amaro What's Goin' On Twilight Time
Rick Wilkins Princess Leia's Theme (From Star Wars) For the Sake of Music
The Laurie Bower Singers Love and Maple Syrup Take Me Home Country Roads
Guido Basso Nightcap It's Happening (re-issue)
Eugene Amaro Twilight Time Twilight Time
The Brian Browne Trio Killing Me Softly Toronto Instrumental
Alex Read & His Tin Pan Alley Cats Alley Cat (Bjorn-Harlem) From CBC Toronto (split with Pat Riccio Orchestra (LM 09)
Johnny Cowell Just One More Time His Girl
Hagood Hardy Christmas Song The Christmas Album
Jimmy Dale Only Love Can Break Your Heart Toronto Instrumental
Lenny Breau Please Release Me (Horton & Peck) Swingin' on a Seven-String
Guido Basso Ten Little Indians It's Happening (re-issue)
Don Thompson 'D.T.' Bossa Noto Bluesprint
Johnny Cowell Moonshine Hot Brass
Johnny Cowell Concerto For Trumpet And Orchestra In D Major- Mvmt 2 Allegro The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Jerry Toth Here There & Everywhere .. Albert Pratz violin solo The Classic Jerry Toth
The Laurie Bower Singers Sweet Ginger Bread Man Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty Do Something Nice Today Do Something Nice Today! b/w Summer Love
Johnny Cowell El Condor Pasa The Tender Loving Care
Paul Hoffert Grotto Walk The Jazz Roots of
The Laurie Bower Singers Country Comfort Take Me Home Country Roads
Jerry Toth Tell Me Now Tell Me Now b/w It's a Great Life (with The Gossips)
Joyce Sullivan I Could Write a Book The Songs of Joyce Sullivan
Bill Badgley June Blue-Ribbon Badgley
Ben McPeek A Taste of Honey His Voices and His Orchestra
Ed Bickert It’s Time Bye Bye Baby
Bill Butler Violets for Your Furs The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler
Jimmy Dale Guanabara Soft and Groovy
Lucio Agostini Tico-Tico Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini
Compilation Ted Komar - Kalinka CBC Comp 409
Ben McPeek Suzanne Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene
Lucio Agostini A Banda Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass
John Arpin Sunburst Rag (1909) Other Side Of Ragtime
Hagood Hardy Daniel Tell Me My Name
Johnny Cowell Rejoice The Virtuoso Trumpet
Doug Randle One Way Swimming Songs for the New Industrial State
Doug Crosley You Wonder Why (Babs Babineau, vocals) Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)
Jackie Richardson Thank You Lord Woman's View... Through Child Eyes
Rick Wilkins The Closer I Get To You For the Sake of Music
Paul Zaza Marina Del Ray Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)
Paul Zaza Lake Louise Images
Sanderlings Come Saturday Morning (Dory Previn & Fred Karlin) With The Jim Pirie Orchestra
Guido Basso You Are My Sunshine It's Happening
Jimmy Namaro Good Morning Annie Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra
Ben McPeek Blue Cha Cha His Voices and His Orchestra
Lenny Breau Blues Theme The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!
Lucio Agostini Introduction Once Upon a Hundred Years
Moe Koffman Inverno Furioso (Allegro) The Four Seasons
Wally Koster Alberta Trail Alberta Trail b/w Sunset Waltz
The Laurie Bower Singers Daybreak Looks Like We Made It
Hagood Hardy God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen The Christmas Album
Johnny Cowell For What it's Worth It's Gotta Be Love
Ivy Steel Now or Never Reincarnation
Eugene Amaro Strangers In The Night The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)
Jimmy Namaro Late Late Blues With Mallets A 4 Thought
Teddy Roderman The Green Grass Starts To Grow Makin' It With You
Lucio Agostini Jesusita en Chihuahua (Cactus Polka) Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini
Hagood Hardy (Theme from) Second Wind Maybe Tomorrow

FEATURED

Rick Wilkins - My Heart Belongs to Me

Hamilton - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Denny Vaughan - Girls I Knew

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → London, England, 🇬🇧 → New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦 → California, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Denny Vaughan - Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → London, England, 🇬🇧 → New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦 → California, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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Denny Vaughan - A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → London, England, 🇬🇧 → New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦 → California, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → London, England, 🇬🇧 → New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦 → California, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

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

Coleman, Alberta → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ron Collier Tentet - ST

Coleman, Alberta → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Hochfeld, Manitoba→Vernon, British Columbia→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Joyce Sullivan - The Songs of Joyce Sullivan

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jimmy Namaro - We Gotta Get It All Together

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Johnny Cowell - His Girl

Tillsonburg, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ed Bickert - ST

Hochfeld, Manitoba→Vernon, British Columbia→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ed Bickert - Bye Bye Baby

Hochfeld, Manitoba→Vernon, British Columbia→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ed Bickert - I Like To Recognize the Tune

Hochfeld, Manitoba→Vernon, British Columbia→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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The Brian Browne Trio - The Toronto Scene

Montréal, Québec→Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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The Brian Browne Trio - Toronto Instrumental

Montréal, Québec→Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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The Brian Browne Trio - The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)

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Yorkville Avenue Band - "Moving Day"

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ben McPeek - Thinking of You

Trail, British Columbia → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Jimmy Namaro - Driftwood

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Jimmy Namaro - Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Jimmy Namaro - Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Jimmy Namaro - featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Jimmy Namaro - At the Westbury

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Jimmy Namaro - With Mallets A 4 Thought

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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Jimmy Namaro - Y' Gotta Quit Swingin' // We Could Make Such Beautiful Music

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Compilation - Motorcars In Concert 1970

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Guido Basso - One More for the Road

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Guido Basso - Lost in the Stars

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Guido Basso - A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

My Heart Belongs to Me

Girls I Knew

Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By

Denny Vaughan And His Queen Elizabeth Hotel Orchestra – Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By (3)

Denny Vaughan And His Queen Elizabeth Hotel Orchestra – Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By (2)

Denny Vaughan And His Queen Elizabeth Hotel Orchestra – Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By (1)

Denny Vaughn Girls I Knew (4)

Denny Vaughn Girls I Knew (3)

Denny Vaughn Girls I Knew (2)

Denny Piano circa 1949b

Denny Vaughn

Duke Ellington: "North of the Border" in Canada

ST

The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)

The Songs of Joyce Sullivan

We Gotta Get It All Together

His Girl

ST

Bye Bye Baby

I Like To Recognize the Tune

Bickert, Ed

The Toronto Scene

Brian Browne Trio-The Toronto Scene BACK

Toronto Instrumental

The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)

Browne, Brian Trio

Brian Browne Trio-The Toronto Scene LABEL 02

Brian Browne Trio-The Toronto Scene LABEL 01

"Moving Day"

Yorkville Avenue Band / "Moving Day" LABELS

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