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
Ben McPeek	Peace Train	Peace Train	03:49
Carol McCartney	I Concentrate On You	A Night in Tunisia	05:14
The Laurie Bower Singers	Shadow Song	Wish I Was A Plane	03:14
Guido Basso	Anniversary Song	It's Happening (re-issue)	02:09
Lucio Agostini	Golden Earrings	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	02:51
Boogus	Take Your Clothes Off	CBC Comp 403 comp	02:49
Guido Basso	I Go to Rio	And All That Latin Jazz!	03:18
Moe Koffman	Paniano	Goes Electric	02:50
Lucio Agostini	Mulberry Bush	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	01:46
Lucio Agostini	Sunwheel Dance (Bruce Cockburn)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	02:14
Johnny Cowell	Butterscotch	The Virtuoso Trumpet	02:23
Lucio Agostini	Dundurn Castle	Once Upon a Hundred Years	01:08
Doug Randle	The Doug Randle Orchestra - Fanny	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	02:32
Compilation	Episode 7-Oh!	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	04:19
Ed Bickert	Barbados	Bye Bye Baby	04:11
Doug Randle	Colored Plastics	Songs for the New Industrial State	03:43
Ed Bickert	Nica's Dream	Out of the Past	09:46
Peter Appleyard	Witchcraft	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:08
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Once I Loved (Gilbert/Jobim/DeMoraes)	ST	02:52
Johnny Cowell	The Golden Jet (Bobb Hull)	His Girl	02:23
The Laurie Bower Singers	You Needed Me	You	03:05
Compilation	Norma Locke - I Need You So	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	03:07
Jerry Toth	Piano Concerto #2 .. Rudy Toth piano solo	The Classic Jerry Toth	03:30
Lenny Breau	A Taste of Honey	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	04:30
Robert Tennison Troupe	Watch Me Now (Hear Me Now)	Watch Me Now (Hear Me Now) b/w I Can See (Instrumental)	02:51
Jimmy Namaro	Cha Cha Chimes	Driftwood	02:14
Denny Vaughan	May All Your Troubles be Little Ones	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	02:36
Ivy Steel	Prelude to a Kiss	Reincarnation	04:55
The Laurie Bower Singers	Everything Old is New Again	Looks Like We Made It	02:26
Ed Bickert	It Might As Well Be Spring	I Like To Recognize the Tune	03:30
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	The Getaway	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	06:27
Henry Cuesta	Lonely Girl	Clarinet With Strings	02:29
The Laurie Bower Singers	Daniel	Wish I Was A Plane	03:17
Moe Koffman	The Storm (Presto)	The Four Seasons	01:54
Swing Sisters	Davenport Blues	Davenport Blues	03:20
Ron Collier Tentet	Fair Wind	ST	02:49
Russ Little	Django	On the Shoulders of Giants	05:21
Rick Wilkins	Tomorrow	For the Sake of Music	02:40
Guido Basso	Noelle	Love Talk	02:56
Moe Koffman	Up, Up and Away	Turned on	02:28
Johnny Cowell	Carnival of Venice (A Tribute to Harry James)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	03:38
Paul Zaza	Expresso	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	01:58
Jerry Toth	Who Are You Now? .. Nicholas Fiore flute solo	The Classic Jerry Toth	03:19
Lenny Breau	Anytime (Herbert Lawson)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	03:47
Russ Little	My One and Only Love	Snapshot	04:49
Compilation	Ben McPeek - Kapuskasing Kaper	Motorcars In Concert 1970	02:57
Ivy Steel	Willow Weep for Me	Reincarnation	04:44
The Laurie Bower Singers	She's Always A Woman	You	03:37
Ron Collier Tentet	Just About Now	ST	02:06
Jimmy Namaro	Afro-Rock	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:42
The Laurie Bower Singers	Simple Song	Back Home Again	02:20
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Knock Three Times	Do Something Nice Today!	02:32
Johnny Cowell	Lonely Trumpet	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	03:11
The Laurie Bower Singers	Out Here On My Own	It Goes Like It Goes	03:12
Henry Cuesta	Singin' My Song	Plays Favourites	02:23
Lenny Breau	Ebony Queen - Pam's Pad	Mo' Breau	07:30
Hagood Hardy	When Joanne Loved Me	Maybe Tomorrow	03:49
Hagood Hardy	(Love theme from) Missouri breaks	Maybe Tomorrow	02:51
Peter Appleyard	Softly as in a Morning Sunrise	The Vibraphone Of	02:37
Electronic Ensemble (Ben McPeek)	Peter & The Wolf	Peter & The Wolf b/w Monkey Music	02:43
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Transformations: 1st movement	Transformations - Invocations	08:32
Guido Basso	Anna’s Theme	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:47
Eugene Amaro	I Left My Heart In San Francisco	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	02:50
Phil Nimmons Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six - Nosey	Strictly Nimmons	05:38
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Summertime	The Old Meets the New	03:21
Lucio Agostini	Introduction	Once Upon a Hundred Years	05:04
Guido Basso	My Ideal	One More for the Road	02:00
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Breezin' Along With the Breeze	Trombone - Teddy Roderman	01:50
Ron Collier Orchestra & Duke Ellington	Aurora Borealis	Duke Ellington: "North of the Border" in Canada	10:16
Jerry Toth	Eye Level	The Classic Jerry Toth	03:23
Yorkville Avenue Band	Takin' Me Through the Night	"Moving Day"	03:31
Guido Basso	Gentle Rain	One More for the Road	04:58
Russ Little	A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square	Snapshot	07:59
Peter Appleyard	The Man With The Golden Arm	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:39
Ed Bickert	Manha de Carnaval	ST	09:46
Jackie Richardson	Here's to Life	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	04:57
Phil Nimmons Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine Plus Six - One More for Baby	Strictly Nimmons	03:50
Guido Basso	Windmills of Your Mind	And All That Latin Jazz!	02:38
Henry Cuesta	We're at Home	Clarinet With Strings	02:10
Dr. Music	I Can See You	Doug Riley Transcription	05:34
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	King of the Road	The Old Meets the New	03:32
Moe Koffman	High Heeled Sneakers	Moe's Curried Soul	03:49
Bill Badgley	Tiny Bubbles	At the Ports of Call	02:04
Guido Basso	Winter Wonderland	Christmas Today	02:42
Guido Basso	Two Bourees	Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert	06:07
Tommy Ambrose	Just Like a Man	Just Like a Man b/w That's the Way it Was	03:23
Compilation	Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass - The Duke	Jazz Toronto	04:00
Lucio Agostini	Gazpacho	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	02:09
Ben McPeek	Suzanne	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	02:59
Peter Appleyard	If	ST	03:29
Jimmy Namaro	Sonny’s Daze	Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury	03:33
Guido Basso	You Are My Sunshine	It's Happening	01:53
The Laurie Bower Singers	Theme from Ice Castles - Through the Eyes of Love	Laurie Bower	03:38
Moe Koffman	Nature's Banquet (Allegro)	The Four Seasons	07:45
Bill Badgley	If You Leave Me Now	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	03:09
Don Gillis	Beautiful	Baby It's Alright (featuring Moe Koffman (Toronto Flutist))	02:26
Paul Zaza	Mellow Moments	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	03:11
John Arpin	Sunburst Rag (1909)	Other Side Of Ragtime	02:51
Phil Nimmons Group	Stay Awake	Mary Popppins Swings	03:01
Jerry Toth	Make Me Rainbows	The Music Of	02:29

The Toronto Jazz Scene

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Jim O'Driscoll - Chega Saudade No More Blues b/w If You Could Read My Mind

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Jim O'Driscoll - I Don't Know How to Love Him b/w What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life

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Russ Little - Ain't No Mountain High Enough

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Russ Little - Deeper and Deeper

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Russ Little - Footwork

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Russ Little - Slow Burn

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Russ Little - On the Shoulders of Giants

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Russ Little - Snapshot

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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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