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
Jimmy Namaro	Good Morning Annie	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:24
Henry Cuesta	Fate	Clarinet With Strings	02:30
Doug Randle	The Doug Randle Orchestra - Dear Heart	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	03:03
Lucio Agostini	Heart of Gold (Neil Young)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	02:47
Lucio Agostini	Jesusita en Chihuahua (Cactus Polka)	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	02:20
John Arpin	Bird-Brain Rag	Concert In Ragtime	03:08
Moe Koffman	Battering Ram	Goes Electric	02:34
The Laurie Bower Singers	Southern Nights	Looks Like We Made It	02:57
Peter Appleyard	Crazy Rhythm	The Vibe Sound Of	02:36
Sanderlings	Roller Coaster Ride (Bob Ruzicka)	With The Jim Pirie Orchestra	02:32
Denny Vaughan	Can't Help Falling in Love With You	A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"	02:38
Rick Wilkins	Swinging On a Star	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	05:57
Bill Badgley	Wednesday's Child	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:51
Doug Randle	Warm in the Sunshine	Songs for the New Industrial State	02:48
Doug Randle	The Doug Randle Orchestra - Jennine	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	02:28
The Laurie Bower Singers	Silver Bird	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:00
Hagood Hardy	Oh Holy Night	The Christmas Album	04:37
Henry Cuesta	Am I in Love?	Clarinet With Strings	02:22
Jerry Toth	The Worst That Could Happen	The Music Of	02:34
Jimmy Dale	Touch Her Soft Lips	Profiles	02:48
Phil Nimmons Group	My Old Flame	Nimmons 'N' Nine	05:39
Phil Nimmons Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six - One More for Baby	Strictly Nimmons	03:50
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	If	Montage	02:38
Lucio Agostini	Coastin'	Action With Agostini	02:40
Peter Appleyard	Undecided	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:24
Tommy Ambrose	You're Driving Me Crazy	Young Tommy Ambrose	01:54
Jimmy Namaro	Climax	We Gotta Get It All Together	03:24
Rick Wilkins	Emotion	For the Sake of Music	03:28
Ed Bickert	Deep In a Dream	Out of the Past	04:52
Pat Riccio	Michelle (Lennon-McCartney)	From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)	02:40
Doug Crosley	Why Does He Stay in My Mind (Babs Babineau, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	02:47
The Laurie Bower Singers	Looks Like We Made It	Looks Like We Made It	03:39
Lenny Breau	King of the Road	Guitar Sounds From	02:29
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	All in the Family	Toronto Instrumental	02:34
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Peaches and Brandy	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	06:01
The Laurie Bower Singers	Hold On to a Little Bit of Love	Morning Has Broken	02:18
Hagood Hardy	Quorum	The Homecoming	04:14
Rick Wilkins	Why Think About Tomorrow	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	05:43
Compilation	Brian Dickinson - Alone Together	Jazz Toronto	04:52
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	The Way You Look Tonight	Trombone - Teddy Roderman	03:23
Herb Marshall	Get Out of My Life Woman (Allen Toussaint)	Toronto Vocalist	03:00
The Laurie Bower Singers	Sir Duke	Looks Like We Made It	03:00
Hagood Hardy	Wintertime	The Homecoming	02:20
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Georgy Girl	The Now Sound	02:24
Jimmy Namaro	Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	02:38
Paul Zaza	Sailing By	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	02:34
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
Hagood Hardy	A Boy Named Charlie Brown	Maybe Tomorrow	03:14
Hagood Hardy	When the First Snow Falls	The Christmas Album	04:15
Paul Zaza	Song of the Stars	Images	02:47
The Mutual Understanding	Rain Rain Go Away	In Wonderland	02:21
The Laurie Bower Singers	Don't Blame Me	Laurie Bower	04:03
Moe Koffman	Snowflakes (Largo)	The Four Seasons	02:02
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra	Summer Wind	And I Love Her	02:50
Denny Vaughan	Judy	Girls I Knew	02:24
Teddy Roderman	What's Doin' (Phil Nimmons)	Stay Awhile	02:49
The Brian Browne Trio	Georgia on My Mind	The Toronto Scene	05:38
Bill Badgley	How Insensitive	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	01:47
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Guantanamera	Montage	03:09
Paul Zaza	Swallow Flight	Images	03:45
Moe Koffman	Goin' Out of My Head	Turned on	02:20
Moe Koffman	When the Saints Go Marching In	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:11
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Invocation: Bronze (The Contest)	Transformations - Invocations	08:32
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Wang Wang Blues	Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read	02:42
Hagood Hardy	Love is in the Air	Reflections	03:36
Ivy Steel	Robbin’s Nest	Reincarnation	03:27
John Arpin	Kansas City Stomps	Other Side Of Ragtime	02:34
Ivy Steel	Now or Never	Reincarnation	02:35
Jimmy Namaro	The Man I Love	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	02:53
Eugene Amaro	Didn’t We	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	02:54
Lucio Agostini	Prairie Boy	Action With Agostini	03:29
Guido Basso	Time On My Hands (Vincent Youmans)	Lost in the Stars	06:25
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Up, Up & Away	The Now Sound	03:01
Ben McPeek	Laughing	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	02:25
The Laurie Bower Singers	Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard	Morning Has Broken	02:36
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	South	+ Horn = Dixie	02:44
Lenny Breau	Georgia on My Mind	Guitar Sounds From	05:21
Lenny Breau	Music to Watch Girls By	Guitar Sounds From	04:29
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Transformations: 3rd movement	Transformations - Invocations	07:05
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	I Lived in a Dream	Halifax Instrumental	03:01
Peter Appleyard	You Put the Shine on Me	Peter Appleyard Presents	03:16
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Bass-ically Yours	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	05:19
Rick Wilkins	Somewhere Along the Way	My Heart Belongs to Me	02:57
Robert Tennison Troupe	Cause You Are Here	Just Like a Fool b/w Cause You Are Here	02:38
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Maxwell’s Silver Hammer	Original Toronto Dixieland Band	02:46
The Laurie Bower Singers	Back Home Again	Back Home Again	03:29
The Laurie Bower Singers	Pussywillow Cat-tails	Morning Has Broken	02:53
Norman Amadio Trio	Frenesi	ST	02:05
Boogus	Gemini Rag	CBC Comp 403 comp	02:37
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Eleanor Rigby	Do Something Nice Today!	02:44
Hogtown Trumpets	Ludwig's Bugle	CBC Comp 434 comp	03:14
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
Phil Nimmons Group	Kicks (Outro)	Nimmons 'N' Nine	00:33
Terry Watada	Little Geisha	Night's Disgrace	03:08
Compilation	Season of the Yonge	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	03:07
Peter Appleyard	Tenderly	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:01
Compilation	Dear World (arranged by Tony Gee)	Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical	02:42
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Knock Three Times	Do Something Nice Today!	02:32
Paul Zaza	Blue Porcelain	Faces and Places	02:18
Jimmy Dale	All By Myself	Profiles	03:41

The Toronto Jazz Scene

Tracks

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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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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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Johnny Cowell - His Girl

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