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
Moe Koffman Jeannine Tales of Koffman
Moe Koffman Darktown Strutters Ball Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty Knock Three Times Do Something Nice Today!
Moe Koffman Hambourg Bound Cool and Hot Sax
Rick Wilkins Portrait of a Young Lady Discovery
Paul Zaza Marina Del Ray Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)
Compilation Autumn Leaves (arranged by Orville Hoover) Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' When My Sugar Walks Down the Street + Horn = Dixie
Denny Vaughan Wake Up Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By
The Laurie Bower Singers Wedding Cake Feelin'
Jerry Toth Tell Me Now Tell Me Now b/w It's a Great Life (with The Gossips)
Guido Basso Suite P.E.I. Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert
Ivy Steel God Bless the Child Reincarnation
The Laurie Bower Singers Here's That Rainy Day Feelin'
Jimmy Namaro Climax We Gotta Get It All Together
Ben McPeek Everything's Alright Peace Train
Lenny Breau But Beautiful Mo' Breau
The Laurie Bower Singers Epilogue Morning Has Broken
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' Ace in the Hole + Horn = Dixie
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' Memphis Blues (vocal by Trump Davidson) Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read
The Laurie Bower Singers Evergreen Looks Like We Made It
Guido Basso Yesterday When I Was Young (live) (Charles Aznavour) Lost in the Stars
Bill Badgley All Blue-Ribbon Badgley
Jimmy Namaro Sentimental Journey At the Westbury
Hagood Hardy The Children's Song As Time Goes By
Hagood Hardy A Boy Named Charlie Brown Maybe Tomorrow
Moe Koffman Doxy The Shepherd Swings Again
John Arpin Sunburst Rag (1909) Other Side Of Ragtime
Herb Marshall Never Can Say Goodbye (Clifton Davis) Toronto Vocalist
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra Adios Muchachos Trombone - Teddy Roderman
Johnny Cowell El Condor Pasa The Tender Loving Care
John Arpin Wild Cherries Rag (1908) Other Side Of Ragtime
Johnny Cowell Siberian Love Song Our Winter Love
Carol McCartney I Thought About You A Night in Tunisia
Lenny Breau Tuning Time The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!
Compilation Ted Komar - Kalinka CBC Comp 409
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra And I Love Her And I Love Her
The Laurie Bower Singers Everything Old is New Again Looks Like We Made It
Bill Butler A Portrait of a Piano Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler
Bill Badgley Lady Blue-Ribbon Badgley
Jackie Richardson Too Beautiful to Know Woman's View... Through Child Eyes
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six I Love to Play (Opening Theme) Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64
Bill Badgley Sand and Sea Blue-Ribbon Badgley
Henry Cuesta Just a Closer Walk with Thee Clarinet With Strings
Jimmy Namaro We Gotta Get it All Together We Gotta Get It All Together
The Laurie Bower Singers Angie Baby Back Home Again
2B3 Doug Riley, Bill Payne - Drown in My Own Tears The Toronto Sessions
Paul Zaza Swallow Flight Images
Bill Butler The Girl that I Marry (mono version) The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler
Bill Badgley All At the Ports of Call
Peter Appleyard The Linconshire Poacher The Lincolnshire Poacher
Guido Basso Christmas Waltz Christmas Today
Doug Randle London by Night (Doug Crosley, vocalist) Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists
John Arpin I Can't Depend On Love Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith Struttin' Your Stuff Sailin' Home
Jimmy Namaro Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra
Ben McPeek Silent Cinema Thinking of You
Jimmy Namaro Despertar We Gotta Get It All Together
Guido Basso Put Your Hand in the Hand Put Your Hand in the Hand
The Laurie Bower Singers American Music Laurie Bower
Rick Wilkins Songbird For the Sake of Music
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass All in the Family Toronto Instrumental
Alex Read & His Tin Pan Alley Cats Rag Medley (Rogers) From CBC Toronto (split with Pat Riccio Orchestra (LM 09)
Joyce Sullivan You'll Never Know The Songs of Joyce Sullivan
Teddy Roderman Oops Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones
Hagood Hardy Don't You Think it's Time to Come Back Home Tell Me My Name
Pete Schofield and the Canadians If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot) Do Something Nice Today!
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six The Getaway Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64
Jimmy Namaro Hammering Home With Mallets A 4 Thought
Doug Crosley For All We Know With Lucio Agostini and his Orchestra
Johnny Cowell Winds of Chance Our Winter Love
John Arpin At Long Last Love it's Alright With Me Direct to Disc
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Auf Widersehn The Old Meets the New
Phil Nimmons Group Stay Awake Mary Popppins Swings
Guido Basso Goofus It's Happening
Lenny Breau Taranta Guitar Sounds From
Ben McPeek Keyboard Grease Only God Knows b/w Keyboard Grease
Guido Basso Love Talk Love Talk
Doug Randle Get Happy Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists
Jimmy Namaro Yesterdays At the Westbury
Hogtown Trumpets Aztec CBC Comp 434 comp
The Laurie Bower Singers Daybreak Looks Like We Made It
Peter Appleyard Wichita Lineman The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)
Bill Badgley How Insensitive Blue-Ribbon Badgley
Jimmy Namaro Despertar We Gotta Get It All Together
Lenny Breau I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You (Hank Williams) Swingin' on a Seven-String
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Lush Life Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64
Johnny Cowell I Can't Get Started (Al Hirt & Bunny Berigan) The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Johnny Cowell Blood of the Brave Bull The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Jimmy Namaro Dansero At the Westbury
Boogus Cow Cow Boogie CBC Comp 403 comp
Phil Nimmons Group Kicks (Outro) Nimmons 'N' Nine
Ivy Steel Travelling Light Reincarnation
The Laurie Bower Singers Country Comfort Take Me Home Country Roads
Compilation Phil Nimmons Quartet - There'll be Some Changes Made CBC Comp 409
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra Destino And I Love Her
Doug Crosley Somewhere, Sometime (Doug Crosley, vocals) Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)
Guido Basso A Lazy Afternoon (alternate version) A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)
Moe Koffman James Brown's Bag Turned on
Lucio Agostini Night In Spain Action With Agostini

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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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Johnny Cowell - His Girl

Tillsonburg, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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Ed Bickert - ST

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

FEATURED

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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - Driftwood

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

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra

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

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury

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

FEATURED

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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - At the Westbury

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

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - With Mallets A 4 Thought

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

FEATURED

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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Guido Basso - One More for the Road

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Guido Basso - Lost in the Stars

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Guido Basso - A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Compilation

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"

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