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
Johnny Cowell	Stawberry Jam	His Girl	02:04
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Wave	Do Something Nice Today!	02:47
Hagood Hardy	Watching Through the Night	Maybe Tomorrow	03:40
Ron Collier Tentet	Come Sunday	ST	03:02
Jimmy Namaro	This Could be the Start of Something Big	Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury	03:40
Norman Amadio Trio	Alleluia D.T.'s.	ST	01:57
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	You (Doug Riley)	ST	02:17
Johnny Cowell	It's Gotta be Love	It's Gotta Be Love	02:37
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Voices of Spring	Reminiscing: Featuring Teddy Roderman, trombonist	02:09
The Laurie Bower Singers	50 Ways	Got a Feelin' for Love	03:31
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Taste of Honey	It’s a Sign of the Times	02:59
Ed Bickert	Where Are You	ST	04:40
The Brian Browne Trio	The Brian Browne Trio - How Insensitive	The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)	03:29
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Transformations: 3rd movement	Transformations - Invocations	07:05
Bill Butler	One Morning in May	The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler	03:11
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Do Something Nice Today	Do Something Nice Today! b/w Summer Love	02:32
Boogus	Cow Cow Boogie	CBC Comp 403 comp	02:24
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Glenn's Tunes (Medley: Chatanooga Choo Choo - Elmer's Tune - Tuxedo Junction)	Do Something Nice Today!	04:23
Peter Appleyard	Rock's Push	Toronto Instrumental	02:16
Phil Nimmons Group	The Life I Lead	Mary Popppins Swings	07:00
Phil Nimmons Group	Steve's Theme	Take 10	03:27
Doug Randle	Out of this World (Elan Stuart, vocalist)	Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists	04:00
Jimmy Namaro	We Gotta Get it All Together	We Gotta Get It All Together	04:50
Ben McPeek	American Woman	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	03:37
Lucio Agostini	St. Thomas	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	02:17
Lucio Agostini	Voyageur Canoe Race	Once Upon a Hundred Years	02:32
The Laurie Bower Singers	Hey Look	Got a Feelin' for Love	02:22
Colina Phillips	River Jordan	Toronto Vocalist	03:05
Denny Vaughan	Then I'll Be Happy	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:42
Paul Zaza	Swallow Flight	Images	03:45
Paul Zaza	Marina Del Rey	Coasting (with Isaacs)	02:30
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	I Lived in a Dream	Halifax Instrumental	03:01
Moe Koffman	Exodus	Tales of Koffman	04:29
Hagood Hardy	Don't Give up on Us	Tell Me My Name	02:52
Rick Wilkins	Swinging On a Star	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	05:57
Ben McPeek	Baked Apple Rag	Thinking of You	02:32
Lucio Agostini	Help Yourself	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	02:22
Lenny Breau	Claude (Free Song)	ST	11:01
Compilation	Lorne Lofsky - T.T.T.	Jazz Toronto	04:56
Jimmy Dale	Strange Music	Profiles	03:29
Denny Vaughan	Windy	Girls I Knew	02:31
Eugene Amaro	On Days Like These	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	02:42
The Laurie Bower Singers	El Condor Pasa	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:40
Phil Nimmons Group	Nimmons 'N' Nine - Room at the Back	Strictly Nimmons	05:21
Peter Appleyard	Undecided	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:24
Hagood Hardy	Misty	Reflections	03:45
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Chips & Gravy (Nimmons)	Now!	04:40
Hagood Hardy	Winter Time	The Christmas Album	02:19
Doug Crosley	Frances (Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	01:56
The Laurie Bower Singers	Here's That Rainy Day	Feelin'	02:13
Hagood Hardy	Workin' In L.A.	As Time Goes By	04:00
Eugene Amaro	I'll Follow The Sun	Warm	02:44
The Laurie Bower Singers	Hold On to a Little Bit of Love	Morning Has Broken	02:18
Henry Cuesta	Glamorous Night	Clarinet With Strings	02:22
Ivy Steel	Willow Weep for Me	Reincarnation	04:44
Guido Basso	For Awhile	Put Your Hand in the Hand	02:53
Bill Butler	I'm Always Chasing Rainbows	Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler	02:54
Lenny Breau	Tuning Time	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	01:49
Denny Vaughan	Traces	Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra	02:59
Ben McPeek	Soon It's Gonna Rain	The Original Sounds of	03:09
Rick Wilkins	Amarillo	My Heart Belongs to Me	03:21
Jimmy Namaro	With Mallets Towards Some	With Mallets A 4 Thought	02:56
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
Lenny Breau	Secret Love	Minor's Aloud	05:10
Hagood Hardy	Promenade	Reflections	03:09
Denny Vaughan	The Girl I Left Behind Me	Girls I Knew	03:02
Paul Hoffert	Phoenix	The Jazz Roots of	04:40
Lenny Breau	Freight Train	Guitar Sounds From	03:31
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra	Fly Me to the Moon	And I Love Her	02:32
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Guantanamera	Montage	03:09
Hagood Hardy	White Christmas	The Christmas Album	04:09
Peter Appleyard	Where is the Love	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:17
John Arpin	I Can't Depend On Love	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	03:07
Carol McCartney	You Don't Know What Love Is	A Night in Tunisia	06:31
Ben McPeek	Only God Knows	Only God Knows b/w Keyboard Grease	02:39
Johnny Cowell	Caesar's Palace	Hot Brass	03:22
Wally Koster	Sunset Waltz	Alberta Trail b/w Sunset Waltz	03:46
Guido Basso	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen	Christmas Today	03:13
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Dance of the Only Son	Sailin' Home	05:52
Jimmy Namaro	I Wanna Know	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:37
Peter Appleyard	Tell Me A Story	ST	03:22
Paul Zaza	Fiesta Romantica	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	04:35
Ivy Steel	Easy Living	Reincarnation	05:03
Ivy Steel	What a Little Moonlight Can Do	Reincarnation	03:28
Ed Bickert	Polkadots & Moonbeams	I Like To Recognize the Tune	03:27
Ben McPeek	Superstar	Peace Train	03:34
Lenny Breau	Blues Theme #2	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	02:33
The Laurie Bower Singers	Didn't We?	Feelin'	01:59
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	All in the Family	Toronto Instrumental	02:34
Guido Basso	What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?	Christmas Today	03:02
Denny Vaughan	Dominion Square	A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"	02:17
Denny Vaughan	Hayseedelic	Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra	02:12
Lenny Breau	Lone Pine	Mo' Breau	03:08
Compilation	Phil Nimmons Quartet - It Ain't Necessarily So	CBC Comp 409	02:49
Jerry Toth	Peaceful	The Twelve Sides Of	02:55
Denny Vaughan	Can't Help Falling in Love With You	A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"	02:38
John Arpin	Ragtime Nightingale	Concert In Ragtime	03:04
Moe Koffman	Dr. Swahili	Goes Electric	02:42
Carol McCartney	Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye	A Night in Tunisia	04:46
Phil Nimmons Group	In a Minor Mode	Nimmons 'N' Nine	04:47

The Toronto Jazz Scene

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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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Jimmy Namaro - We Gotta Get It All Together

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Johnny Cowell - His Girl

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Ed Bickert - ST

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Ed Bickert - Bye Bye Baby

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Ed Bickert - I Like To Recognize the Tune

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The Brian Browne Trio - The Toronto Scene

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The Brian Browne Trio - Toronto Instrumental

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