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
Bill Badgley How Insensitive Blue-Ribbon Badgley
Peter Appleyard Who Needs It Peter Appleyard Presents
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Georgy Girl The Now Sound
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith Espresso Sailin' Home
Don Gillis Lady Death Baby It's Alright (featuring Moe Koffman (Toronto Flutist))
Peter Appleyard Fascinating Rhythm The Vibe Sound Of
Doug Crosley You Wonder Why (Babs Babineau, vocals) Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)
Guido Basso Besame Mucho (Consuelo Velazquez) Lost in the Stars
Guido Basso A Lazy Afternoon A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)
Ben McPeek Never My Love Peace Train
Compilation Laurie Bower Singers - Sometime Girl 1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind
Moe Koffman Sunshine Superman Moe's Curried Soul
Knights of the Round Flugel Toot-Suite (Grosney) Bye Bye Love
Guido Basso Give Her My Love It's Happening (re-issue)
Guido Basso Anna’s Theme Put Your Hand in the Hand
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' Maple Leaf Rag + Horn = Dixie
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' Oh Didn't He Ramble Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read
Pete Schofield and the Canadians What Now My Love It’s a Sign of the Times
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra Invitation And I Love Her
Ivy Steel Willow Weep for Me Reincarnation
Paul Zaza Follow the Sun Faces and Places
Phil Nimmons Group Open Country Nimmons 'N' Nine
Hagood Hardy (Theme from) Second Wind Maybe Tomorrow
The Laurie Bower Singers Mississippi Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....
Phil Nimmons Group On the Autobahn Take 10
Ed Bickert Keeping Myself For You Bye Bye Baby
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty Do Something Nice Today Do Something Nice Today!
Henry Cuesta Lonely is the Name Clarinet With Strings
The Laurie Bower Singers Tell No Lies You
Jerry Toth It's a Great Life Tell Me Now b/w It's a Great Life (with The Gossips)
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Goin' Out Of My Head The Now Sound
Moe Koffman Forest Flower Goes Electric
Phil Nimmons Group The Life I Lead Mary Popppins Swings
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' When My Sugar Walks Down the Street + Horn = Dixie
Lenny Breau Hard Day's Night Guitar Sounds From
Hagood Hardy Daniel Tell Me My Name
Doug Randle One Way Swimming Songs for the New Industrial State
Rick Wilkins Ballad for Carolyn My Heart Belongs to Me
Guido Basso Sweet Georgia Fame A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)
Guido Basso Windmills of Your Mind And All That Latin Jazz!
Rick Wilkins Weekend in New England My Heart Belongs to Me
Wally Koster Wagon Wheels The Songs of Wally Koster
Rick Wilkins Savin' it Up Discovery
Ben McPeek Track 17 Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene
Lucio Agostini Coastin' Action With Agostini
Tommy Ambrose A Cottage for Sale Young Tommy Ambrose
Paul Hoffert Grotto Walk The Jazz Roots of
Teddy Roderman Watching Scotty Grow Makin' It With You
Bill Butler June in January The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler
Lenny Breau Indian Reflections For Ravi The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!
Lucio Agostini Tico-Tico Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini
The Brian Browne Trio Bonnie & Clyde Toronto Instrumental
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Eleanor Rigby Do Something Nice Today!
Peter Appleyard The Blue Room The Vibe Sound Of
Compilation Phil Nimmons Quartet - Stompin' at the Savoy CBC Comp 409
Pat Riccio Matchmaker (Bock-Harnick) Doug Crosley: vocals From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)
Hogtown Trumpets Bustling CBC Comp 434 comp
Fred Stone Theme from Lawrence of Arabia The Music of Fred Stone
Moe Koffman Swingin' Explorer Goes Electric
Lucio Agostini Prairie Boy Action With Agostini
Jimmy Namaro Lonely One featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra
Compilation Eve Smith - I Care 1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind
Guido Basso I Go to Rio And All That Latin Jazz!
Guido Basso Polka Dots & Moonbeams A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)
Lucio Agostini Golden Earrings Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini
Phil Nimmons Group Last Night When We Were Young Take 10
Moe Koffman Icicle Bells (Allegro) The Four Seasons
Lenny Breau Marlborough Street Mo' Breau
Doug Crosley In the Forest (Babs Babineau and Doug Crosley, vocals) Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)
Yorkville Avenue Band Quite Contrary "Moving Day"
Ben McPeek American Woman Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene
Moe Koffman The Calm (Adagio) The Four Seasons
Peter Appleyard Mack The Knife Per-cus-sive Jazz
Ed Bickert Girl Talk I Like To Recognize the Tune
Doug Crosley Sing a Happy Song (Babs Babineau, vocals) Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)
Peter Appleyard Why Don't You Do Right Per-cus-sive Jazz
Paul Zaza Beautiful People Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)
Guido Basso Lost in the Stars (Kurt Weill) Lost in the Stars
Hagood Hardy Samba de Orfeu Stop 33 Sutton Place
Compilation Carpet Man (arranged by Ray Sikora) Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical
Moe Koffman Song for My Father Turned on
Jimmy Dale Guanabara Soft and Groovy
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra Bali Ha'I ST
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Summertime The Old Meets the New
Jerry Toth Little Boy Blue The Twelve Sides Of
The Laurie Bower Singers The Rose Laurie Bower
Doug Randle Cote d´Azur Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists
Johnny Cowell Song of Joy The Virtuoso Trumpet
Lenny Breau Please Release Me (Horton & Peck) Swingin' on a Seven-String
Peter Appleyard Night Journey Peter Appleyard Presents
Hagood Hardy & the Montage You (Doug Riley) ST
Guido Basso Canada It's Happening
Phil Nimmons Group Nimmons 'N' Nine - Gone With the Blues Strictly Nimmons
Paul Zaza Superstar Faces and Places
Hagood Hardy The Trouble with Hello is Goodbye The Homecoming
Doug Randle You´d be so Nice to Come Home to (Doug Crosley, vocalist) Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists
Jimmy Namaro When I Grow Too Old to Dream With Mallets A 4 Thought
Guido Basso Give Her My Love It's Happening
Jackie Richardson Child Eyes Part 1 - A Woman's View Woman's View... Through Child Eyes
The Mutual Understanding Rain Rain Go Away In Wonderland

FEATURED

Denny Vaughan - Girls I Knew

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

FEATURED

Denny Vaughan - Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra

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

FEATURED

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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ron Collier Tentet - ST

Coleman, Alberta → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

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

FEATURED

Joyce Sullivan - The Songs of Joyce Sullivan

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ed Bickert - ST

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

FEATURED

Ed Bickert - Bye Bye Baby

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

FEATURED

Ed Bickert - I Like To Recognize the Tune

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

FEATURED

The Brian Browne Trio - The Toronto Scene

Montréal, Québec→Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Brian Browne Trio - Toronto Instrumental

Montréal, Québec→Ottawa, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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

FEATURED

Yorkville Avenue Band - "Moving Day"

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

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, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Guido Basso - And All That Latin Jazz!

Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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

Yorkville Avenue Band / "Moving Day" BACK

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