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	Antigua	It's Gotta Be Love	02:08
Hagood Hardy	Let Me Love Again	As Time Goes By	03:52
Ivy Steel	Now or Never	Reincarnation	02:35
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life	Do Something Nice Today!	03:14
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Do Something Nice Today	Do Something Nice Today! b/w Summer Love	02:32
The Brian Browne Trio	After Midnight	Toronto Instrumental	01:37
Peter Appleyard	Softly as in a Morning Sunrise	The Vibraphone Of	02:37
Jimmy Namaro	Love	With Mallets A 4 Thought	03:21
Peter Appleyard	Undecided	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:24
Jimmy Namaro	African Echoes	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	03:00
2B3	Michael Fonfara, Lance Anderson - Magic Carpet Ride	The Toronto Sessions	06:38
Swing Sisters	Girl Talk	Davenport Blues	03:54
Paul Zaza	Foxy Lady	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	02:54
John Arpin	Efficiency Rag	Concert In Ragtime	02:54
Jimmy Namaro	So Danco Samba	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:00
Phil Nimmons Group	My Old Flame	Nimmons 'N' Nine	05:39
Swing Sisters	I Believe In Miracles	Davenport Blues	02:29
Jimmy Dale	Could it be Magic	Profiles	02:45
The Laurie Bower Singers	Key Largo	Laurie Bower	03:22
Rick Wilkins	Tetra Tetra	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	06:00
Guido Basso	Never Let Me Go	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	07:00
Moe Koffman	The Swingin' Shepherd Blues	Cool and Hot Sax	03:57
Peter Appleyard	Mambo Inn	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:25
Compilation	Laurie Bower Singers - Sometime Girl	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	02:00
The Laurie Bower Singers	You Never Done It Like That	You	03:09
Lucio Agostini	Help Yourself	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	02:22
Jimmy Namaro	Despertar	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:10
Moe Koffman	Cantelope Island	Moe's Curried Soul	06:56
Jimmy Namaro	Lara's Theme	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:20
Compilation	Teach Me	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	02:37
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Fidgety Feet	+ Horn = Dixie	04:40
Eugene Amaro	Strangers In The Night	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	02:42
Moe Koffman	Hambourg Bound	Cool and Hot Sax	04:05
Jimmy Namaro	African Echoes	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:09
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra	And I Love Her	And I Love Her	02:38
Electronic Ensemble (Ben McPeek)	Peter & The Wolf	Peter & The Wolf b/w Monkey Music	02:43
Paul Zaza	Canon in D	Images	02:25
Lucio Agostini	Jolly Jumping Jack	Action With Agostini	01:36
Jimmy Namaro	The Moon is Low	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	02:14
The Laurie Bower Singers	A Love Song	Laurie Bower	03:13
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Pagan Love Song	ST	02:55
Jerry Toth	Tell Me Now	The Music Of	02:49
Moe Koffman	Marty's Morgue	The Shepherd Swings Again	03:33
Denny Vaughan	The Girl I Left Behind Me	Girls I Knew	03:02
The Laurie Bower Singers	Silver Bird	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:00
John Arpin	Tickled to Death	Concert In Ragtime	01:57
Carol McCartney	The Shadow of Your Smile	A Night in Tunisia	05:38
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Blues for Someone Else	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	05:51
Yorkville Avenue Band	Quite Contrary	"Moving Day"	03:17
Denny Vaughan	Medley : Heigh Ho / Whistle While You Work	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:55
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Angie Baby	Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎	02:43
Hagood Hardy	Will You Still be Mine?	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:13
Johnny Cowell	Kornig - Post Horn Gallop (arranged by Johnny Cowell)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:46
Fred Stone	Maera	The Music of Fred Stone	04:21
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Black and Blue	Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read	02:45
Denny Vaughan	Ain't We Got Fun	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:57
Peter Appleyard	What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:46
Moe Koffman	Song for My Father	Turned on	02:54
The Laurie Bower Singers	Thorn In My Shoe	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	02:34
Guido Basso	Ten Little Indians	It's Happening	02:07
Moe Koffman	Sahara	Tales of Koffman	05:02
Ben McPeek	A Taste of Honey	His Voices and His Orchestra	02:42
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Memphis Blues (vocal by Trump Davidson)	Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read	03:22
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	The Look Of Love	The Now Sound	02:45
The Laurie Bower Singers	Don't Ask Me Why	It Goes Like It Goes	02:56
Doug Randle	Nicolston Dam	Nicolston Dam b/w Do You Know That Fella (Is a Friend of Mine)	03:10
The Brian Browne Trio	Browne Sugar	The Toronto Scene	02:50
Joyce Sullivan	Friendly Star	The Songs of Joyce Sullivan	02:50
Phil Nimmons Group	Little Poppy	Nimmons 'N' Nine	04:55
Ben McPeek	If You Could Read My Mind	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	03:34
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Blue Jade	Sailin' Home	04:12
Paul Hoffert	With a Wiggle	The Jazz Roots of	06:29
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	The Sounds of Philadelphia	Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎	03:14
Tony Quarrington	You Stepped Out of a Drink	One Bright Morning	07:49
Lucio Agostini	Pan Am Young and Old	Once Upon a Hundred Years	03:40
The Laurie Bower Singers	Una Paloma	Got a Feelin' for Love	03:23
Alex Read & His Tin Pan Alley Cats	Alley Cat (Bjorn-Harlem)	From CBC Toronto (split with Pat Riccio Orchestra (LM 09)	02:47
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
Ivy Steel	Boudoirs	Reincarnation	02:50
Jerry Toth	Pieces Of Dreams	The Twelve Sides Of	02:36
Compilation	Billy Van - Single Moments	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	03:28
Paul Zaza	Fiesta Flamenco	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	02:23
Peter Appleyard	Night Journey	Peter Appleyard Presents	04:09
Moe Koffman	Country Song	Moe's Curried Soul	03:30
Moe Koffman	Darktown Strutters Ball	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:08
Jerry Toth	To Wait for Love	The Music Of	02:14
Ed Bickert	Polkadots & Moonbeams	I Like To Recognize the Tune	03:27
Doug Randle	Colored Plastics	Songs for the New Industrial State	03:43
Paul Zaza	Sailing By	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	02:34
Bill Butler	Theme from Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2	Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler	02:31
The Laurie Bower Singers	She's Always A Woman	You	03:37
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	I Told You So	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	07:28
The Laurie Bower Singers	Love and Maple Syrup (Gordon Lightfoot)	Love and Maple Syrup b/w Everybody's Reachin' Out for Someone	02:54
Lenny Breau	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	04:25
Moe Koffman	Pretzel Twist	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	01:58
Hagood Hardy	The Homecoming	The Homecoming	02:34
Phil Nimmons Group	Just You, Just Me	Nimmons 'N' Nine	04:22
Ed Bickert	Skylark	I Like To Recognize the Tune	02:49
Jimmy Namaro	What Is This Thing Called Love	At the Westbury	02:15
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	If I Could	ST	02:40

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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