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
Bill Badgley	Tiny Bubbles	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:03
Ivy Steel	Now or Never	Reincarnation	02:35
John Arpin	Cannonball Blues	Concert In Ragtime	02:16
Johnny Cowell	Siberian Love Song	Our Winter Love	02:45
Hagood Hardy	When a Child	The Christmas Album	04:38
Moe Koffman	Cantelope Island	Moe's Curried Soul	06:56
The Mutual Understanding	Show Me Your Laughter	Show Me Your Laughter/ Summer of '42 // Sunshine Man/ If You Say Goodbye	02:41
Peter Appleyard	Moonlight Feels Right	ST	02:55
Lucio Agostini	Voyageur Canoe Race	Once Upon a Hundred Years	02:32
Compilation	Lizzie Simcoe	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	04:02
Hagood Hardy	No Good On My Own	As Time Goes By	03:31
Johnny Cowell	Marcella's Waltz	His Girl	02:10
Bill Badgley	Music to Watch the Girls By	At the Ports of Call	02:30
Guido Basso	Mia Mia	It's Happening	02:48
Jimmy Namaro	Love	With Mallets A 4 Thought	03:21
2B3	Michael Fonfara, Lance Anderson - Magic Carpet Ride	The Toronto Sessions	06:38
Moe Koffman	Battering Ram	Goes Electric	02:34
Jimmy Namaro	Despertar	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:10
Eugene Amaro	Strangers In The Night	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	02:42
Jimmy Dale	Alone Again, Naturally	Toronto Instrumental	02:55
Paul Zaza	Autumn Reflections	Images	02:56
Johnny Cowell	To Love Somebody	The Tender Loving Care	02:37
Compilation	Catherine Mckinnon - Sable Island	CBC Comp 409	02:07
Johnny Cowell	Walk Hand in Hand	Our Winter Love	02:36
Jimmy Namaro	Man of La Mancha	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:04
Jimmy Namaro	We Could Make Such Beautiful Music	Y' Gotta Quit Swingin' // We Could Make Such Beautiful Music	02:55
Ron Collier Tentet	Relaxin'	ST	02:28
Moe Koffman	Windy	Turned on	02:35
Lenny Breau	Claude (Free Song)	ST	11:01
Hagood Hardy	Harlequin (A Time for Love)	Reflections	03:13
John Arpin	Leola	Concert In Ragtime	03:16
Dr. Music	Time for Goodbye	Doug Riley Transcription	05:01
Johnny Cowell	Air On a G String	The Virtuoso Trumpet	03:15
Rick Wilkins	Someone I Used to Love	Discovery	03:31
Moe Koffman	Jeannine	Tales of Koffman	05:27
Guido Basso	Sweet Gingerbread Man	Love Talk	03:07
Moe Koffman	When the Saints Go Marching In	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:11
Peter Appleyard	The Blue Room	The Vibe Sound Of	02:35
Ron Collier Orchestra & Duke Ellington	Collage #3	Duke Ellington: "North of the Border" in Canada	02:51
Lenny Breau	I Love You Because (Leon Payne)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	04:17
Rick Wilkins	Portrait of a Young Lady	Discovery	03:09
Compilation	Pat LaBarbera - Virgo Dance	Jazz Toronto	06:30
Hagood Hardy	When the First Snow Falls	The Christmas Album	04:15
Jimmy Namaro	East of the Sun	Driftwood	03:51
John Arpin	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	Direct to Disc	03:54
Doug Randle	One Way Swimming	Songs for the New Industrial State	04:04
Peter Appleyard	Night Journey	Peter Appleyard Presents	04:09
Teddy Roderman	Stay Awhile (Ken Tobias)	Stay Awhile	02:58
Peter Appleyard	Satin Doll	Toronto Instrumental	02:39
Guido Basso	Sleigh Ride	Christmas Today	02:20
Guido Basso	What A Friend	It's Happening	02:31
Guido Basso	A Lazy Afternoon	A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)	03:46
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Vinaroz	Halifax Instrumental	02:58
Hagood Hardy	Silent Sky	Tell Me My Name	02:42
Lenny Breau	Long Way To Go	Minor's Aloud	04:32
Compilation	Ben McPeek - Kapuskasing Kaper	Motorcars In Concert 1970	02:57
Wally Koster	Time Was	The Songs of Wally Koster	02:19
Ed Bickert	Manha de Carnaval	ST	09:46
Paul Zaza	Guitarra Espana	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	01:56
Peter Appleyard	You Put the Shine on Me	Peter Appleyard Presents	03:16
Ben McPeek	Mame	The Original Sounds of	03:04
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	007 Medley (Dr. No, Goldfinger)	The Old Meets the New	02:51
Jimmy Namaro	Soft Hands	Driftwood	02:54
Paul Zaza	High Spirits	Faces and Places	02:30
Ben McPeek	Get Out of Town	His Voices and His Orchestra	02:33
Jimmy Namaro	I Wanna Know	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:37
Ron Collier Tentet	Come Sunday	ST	03:02
Rick Wilkins	Songbird	For the Sake of Music	03:20
Lucio Agostini	Dundurn Castle	Once Upon a Hundred Years	01:08
The Laurie Bower Singers	I Got a Name	Back Home Again	02:51
Johnny Cowell	Satchmo (Louis Armstrong)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:44
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Do Something Nice Today	Do Something Nice Today!	02:34
Compilation	Billy Van - Single Moments	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	03:28
The Mutual Understanding	I'm Old Fashioned	In Wonderland	02:31
Paul Zaza	Beautiful People	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	02:30
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Medley: It's Too Late-I Feel the Grass Grow Beneath My Feet	Montage	04:28
Compilation	Ken Steele - Gently	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	02:31
Rick Wilkins	Holiday	Discovery	03:18
Jimmy Dale	If	Toronto Instrumental	02:18
Doug Crosley	In the Forest (Babs Babineau and Doug Crosley, vocals)	Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)	03:56
The Laurie Bower Singers	Could I Have This Dance	It Goes Like It Goes	03:12
Denny Vaughan	Hi Neighbor	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:46
Bill Badgley	Moon Love	At the Ports of Call	02:16
Teddy Roderman	Lovers Roulette	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	01:54
Guido Basso	You Are My Sunshine	It's Happening	01:53
Ivy Steel	Willow Weep for Me	Reincarnation	04:44
Rick Wilkins	Should I Love Again	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	04:35
Teddy Roderman	The Drifter	Makin' It With You	02:19
Wally Koster	Nice Work if You Can Get It	The Songs of Wally Koster	01:52
The Laurie Bower Singers	Southern Nights	Looks Like We Made It	02:57
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Kicks (Closing Theme)	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	04:19
Peter Appleyard	What I Did For Love	ST	02:57
Bill Badgley	Lady	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:00
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Winchester Cathedral	It’s a Sign of the Times	03:22
The Laurie Bower Singers	Silver Bird	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:00
Moe Koffman	Twistin' and Bumpin'	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:15
Denny Vaughan	Theme from "The Killer of Kildonan"	A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"	02:53
Lucio Agostini	Que Sera Sera	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	02:01
Lucio Agostini	Tororito (Lucio Aostini)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	02:11
Jackie Richardson	I'm In Love	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	03:04

The Toronto Jazz Scene

Tracks

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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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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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