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
Lucio Agostini The Girls of Spain Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass
Wally Koster Alone Together The Songs of Wally Koster
Lucio Agostini Reel Once Upon a Hundred Years
Jerry Toth Gymnopedie The Classic Jerry Toth
Jimmy Dale All By Myself Profiles
Doug Crosley Centre Island (Babs Babineau and Doug Crosley, vocals) Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)
Jimmy Namaro Lazy Afternoon We Gotta Get It All Together
Guido Basso Estate A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)
Ron Collier Tentet Hockey Theme ST
The Laurie Bower Singers Look and See Take Me Home Country Roads
The Mutual Understanding Out of This World In Wonderland
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Yesterday It’s a Sign of the Times
Paul Zaza Summertime Drive Faces and Places
The Laurie Bower Singers Silver Bird Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....
Doug Randle Get Happy Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists
Pete Schofield and the Canadians The Sounds of Philadelphia Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎
Doug Randle Batteries Not Included Songs for the New Industrial State
Lenny Breau Music to Watch Girls By Guitar Sounds From
Henry Cuesta Remember When (We Made These Memories) Clarinet With Strings
Johnny Cowell Shag Our Winter Love
The Laurie Bower Singers Oh My Lady Wish I Was A Plane
Peter Appleyard A Face Like Yours Peter Appleyard Presents
Rick Wilkins Len's Den From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)
Moe Koffman If I Were a Carpenter Turned on
Guido Basso Windmills of Your Mind And All That Latin Jazz!
Hagood Hardy Never-Never Land Stop 33 Sutton Place
The Laurie Bower Singers You Are What I Am Wish I Was A Plane
Ben McPeek Superstar Peace Train
Peter Appleyard Avalon The Vibe Sound Of
2B3 Doug Riley, Bill Payne - Drown in My Own Tears The Toronto Sessions
Joyce Sullivan The Anniversary Song The Songs of Joyce Sullivan
Compilation Norma Locke - I Need You So 1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind
Eugene Amaro Did You Say The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)
The Brian Browne Trio Bonnie & Clyde Toronto Instrumental
Peter Appleyard What I Did For Love ST
Peter Appleyard Tenderly Per-cus-sive Jazz
Yorkville Avenue Band Moving Day "Moving Day"
Carol McCartney East of the Sun A Night in Tunisia
The Laurie Bower Singers The Rose Laurie Bower
Jimmy Namaro Dansero At the Westbury
Denny Vaughan Miss Wistful Girls I Knew
The Laurie Bower Singers Country Comfort Take Me Home Country Roads
Guido Basso Time On My Hands (Vincent Youmans) Lost in the Stars
Lenny Breau On A Bach Bouree Minor's Aloud
The Laurie Bower Singers Don't Ask Me Why It Goes Like It Goes
Lenny Breau Blues Theme #2 The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!
Kathryn Moses Oleo ST
Jimmy Namaro Yesterdays At the Westbury
Denny Vaughan Can't Help Falling in Love With You A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"
Pete Schofield and the Canadians The Shadow Of Your Smile The Now Sound
The Laurie Bower Singers Back Home Again Back Home Again
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' Memphis Blues (vocal by Trump Davidson) Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read
Peter Appleyard Satin Doll The Vibe Sound Of
Henry Cuesta Rose Garden Plays Favourites
The Laurie Bower Singers Morning Has Broken Morning Has Broken
Wally Koster Nice Work if You Can Get It The Songs of Wally Koster
The Laurie Bower Singers Don't Go Breaking My Heart Feelin'
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Blues for Someone Else Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64
Bill Badgley Fernando Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky
Hagood Hardy Maybe Tomorrow Maybe Tomorrow
Ed Bickert Skylark I Like To Recognize the Tune
The Laurie Bower Singers Epilogue Morning Has Broken
Denny Vaughan Lucky Day (This Is My Lucky Day) Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By
Ben McPeek Both Sides Now Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene
Jimmy Namaro Despertar We Gotta Get It All Together
Peter Appleyard Mack The Knife Per-cus-sive Jazz
Hagood Hardy (Love theme from) Missouri breaks Maybe Tomorrow
Moe Koffman Nature's Banquet (Allegro) The Four Seasons
The Laurie Bower Singers Everything Old is New Again Looks Like We Made It
Tommy Ambrose Goodbye Young Tommy Ambrose
Ben McPeek Suzanne Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene
Hagood Hardy Deck The Halls (With Boughs Of Holly) The Christmas Album
Peter Appleyard Moonlight Feels Right ST
Paul Zaza Maid of the Mist Images
Ed Bickert You’re In Love With Someone Bye Bye Baby
Jimmy Namaro African Echoes We Gotta Get It All Together
Moe Koffman Soul Finger Turned on
Tommy Ambrose This Song Is Ended Young Tommy Ambrose
Ivy Steel Travelling Light Reincarnation
Bill Badgley Sand and Sea At the Ports of Call
The Laurie Bower Singers Brand New Key Morning Has Broken
Jimmy Dale The Look Of Love Soft and Groovy
Jimmy Namaro On a Little Street in Singapore Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra
Rick Wilkins Someone I Used to Love Discovery
Johnny Cowell Kornig - Post Horn Gallop (arranged by Johnny Cowell) The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Moe Koffman Goin' Out of My Head Turned on
Denny Vaughan Let a Smile be Your Umbrella Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By
The Laurie Bower Singers I've Found a New Baby Feelin'
Jimmy Namaro Tahiti Boat Driftwood
Guido Basso S'Wonderful And All That Latin Jazz!
The Laurie Bower Singers What is Christmas Danielle b/w What is Christmas
John Arpin The Chevy Chase (1914) Other Side Of Ragtime
Guido Basso Don't Know Why (Jesse Harris) Lost in the Stars
Paul Zaza Marina Del Ray Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)
Guido Basso For Awhile Love Talk
Denny Vaughan Yesterday When I Was Young Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra
Guido Basso White Christmas Christmas Today
Hagood Hardy Gary - A Remembrance As Time Goes By
Knights of the Round Flugel Your Cheating Heart (Hank Williams) Bye Bye Love
Ed Bickert Polkadots & Moonbeams I Like To Recognize the Tune

FEATURED

Rick Wilkins - My Heart Belongs to Me

Hamilton - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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, 🇨🇦

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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