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
The Laurie Bower Singers	Fool That I Am	It Goes Like It Goes	02:51
Johnny Cowell	Hora Stacatto (Doc Severinson and Raphael Mendez)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:23
Ron Collier Tentet	The Thrill is Gone	ST	02:02
Moe Koffman	Battering Ram	Goes Electric	02:34
Jimmy Dale	All By Myself	Profiles	03:41
Rick Wilkins	Déjà vu	Discovery	03:55
Doug Randle	You´d be so Nice to Come Home to (Doug Crosley, vocalist)	Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists	02:18
John Arpin	Gladiolus Rag (1907)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:11
Ben McPeek	Colonel Bogey	The Original Sounds of	02:43
Bill Butler	Chopin Nocturne In E Flat	Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler	02:35
The Laurie Bower Singers	Battle Of New Orleans	Wish I Was A Plane	02:54
Lenny Breau	I Love You Because (Leon Payne)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	04:17
Lenny Breau	Blues Theme #2	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	02:33
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Dig	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	07:00
Jimmy Namaro	Man of La Mancha	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:04
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Struttin' Your Stuff	Sailin' Home	03:45
Jackie Richardson	Too Beautiful to Know	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	00:56
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Scarboro Fair (Simon/Garfunkel)	ST	02:29
Peter Appleyard	Night Journey	Peter Appleyard Presents	04:09
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra	Let's Call the Whole Thing Off	And I Love Her	02:14
Knights of the Round Flugel	Bye Bye Love (B. Bryant)	Bye Bye Love	02:13
Jimmy Namaro	Call Me	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:38
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Goodbye	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	08:02
The Laurie Bower Singers	Don't Blame Me	Laurie Bower	04:03
Moe Koffman	Anteater's Dance	Moe's Curried Soul	03:00
The Laurie Bower Singers	Rainy Day People	Got a Feelin' for Love	03:12
Peter Appleyard	Tico Tico	ST	02:25
Doug Crosley	(theme from) Love Story	With Lucio Agostini and his Orchestra	02:39
Yorkville Avenue Band	Watcha' Gonna Do When the Rent Comes Round	"Moving Day"	03:31
Moe Koffman	Georgia on My Mind	Tales of Koffman	06:46
Compilation	Ben McPeek - For Lovin' Me	Motorcars In Concert 1970	01:52
Lenny Breau	Back In Indiana (Hanley & MacDonald)	Swingin' on a Seven-String	04:01
Eugene Amaro	Danny Boy	The Tenor Saxaphone of Eugene Amaro (re-issue)	03:09
Peter Appleyard	Feelings	ST	03:29
Doug Randle	Maybe Life Will be Worth Living After All	Songs for the New Industrial State	03:10
2B3	Rob Gusevs, Denis Keldie - Hush	The Toronto Sessions	06:12
Peter Appleyard	Lazy Silhouettes	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:54
Guido Basso	Give Her My Love	It's Happening (re-issue)	02:27
Wally Koster	Sunset Waltz	Alberta Trail b/w Sunset Waltz	03:46
The Laurie Bower Singers	Oh My Lady	Wish I Was A Plane	03:15
Johnny Cowell	Flight of the Bumblebee (Wynton Marsalis)	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	01:12
Jimmy Namaro	We Could Make Such Beautiful Music	Y' Gotta Quit Swingin' // We Could Make Such Beautiful Music	02:55
Don Thompson 'D.T.'	Castle Rock	Bluesprint	04:45
Carol McCartney	Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye	A Night in Tunisia	04:46
Johnny Cowell	Marcella's Waltz	His Girl	02:10
Hagood Hardy	I Feel It	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:24
Peter Appleyard	Tenderly	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:01
Guido Basso	I Go to Rio	And All That Latin Jazz!	03:18
Hagood Hardy	Watching Through the Night	Maybe Tomorrow	03:40
Compilation	Jerry Toth - It's a Great Life	Motorcars In Concert 1970	02:09
Lenny Breau	On A Bach Bouree	Minor's Aloud	06:29
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (Bacharach-David)	Now!	05:50
Peter Appleyard	Who Needs It	Peter Appleyard Presents	03:11
Compilation	Episode 7-Oh!	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	04:19
Bill Badgley	How Insensitive	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	01:47
Hagood Hardy	Joy to the World	The Christmas Album	03:03
Paul Zaza	For Julia	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	03:22
Compilation	Woodland City	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	03:47
Moe Koffman	General Delivery	Cool and Hot Sax	03:20
Lucio Agostini	Gold Leaf	Action With Agostini	02:00
Hagood Hardy	The Looking Glass	As Time Goes By	03:19
Compilation	Jimmy Namaro - Man of La Mancha	Motorcars In Concert 1970	02:02
Eugene Amaro	In My Life (You Belong)	Twilight Time	02:50
Doug Randle	Do You Know That Fella (Is a Friend of Mine)	Nicolston Dam b/w Do You Know That Fella (Is a Friend of Mine)	02:47
Eugene Amaro	I Just Fall In Love Again	Warm	03:38
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Ballin' the Jack	+ Horn = Dixie	03:37
Moe Koffman	Twist That Thing	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:05
John Arpin	Go My Way	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	01:49
Guido Basso	Two for the Road (H. Mancini)	One More for the Road	06:53
Vic Centro Sextet	El Choclo	ST	02:22
Lucio Agostini	La Paloma Azul (Sweet Little Mountain Bird)	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	02:01
The Laurie Bower Singers	Didn't We	The Rose And The Rain	03:23
Henry Cuesta	Lonely Girl	Clarinet With Strings	02:29
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Vinaroz	Halifax Instrumental	02:58
Ivy Steel	Now or Never	Reincarnation	02:35
Bill Badgley	Fernando	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	03:39
Ben McPeek	Something Better to Do	Thinking of You	03:18
Peter Appleyard	There Will Never Be Another You	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:46
Guido Basso	All the Sad Young Men	One More for the Road	04:36
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Breezin' Along With the Breeze	Trombone - Teddy Roderman	01:50
Lucio Agostini	Brazil	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	02:32
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Angie Baby	Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎	02:43
Eugene Amaro	Something About You	Twilight Time	03:18
Moe Koffman	Country Song	Moe's Curried Soul	03:30
Jimmy Namaro	Love	With Mallets A 4 Thought	03:21
Rick Wilkins	With a Little Luck	Discovery	03:01
The Laurie Bower Singers	Do You Think I'd Call It Love	When You Say Goodbye	03:00
Jimmy Dale	Cidade Vazia	Soft and Groovy	02:24
The Laurie Bower Singers	Angie Baby	Back Home Again	03:32
Jerry Toth	Make Me Rainbows	The Music Of	02:29
Jimmy Namaro	Stranger in Paradise	Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra	02:43
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Squits	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	04:24
Peter Appleyard	Dragnet	Per-cus-sive Jazz	03:11
Don Thompson 'D.T.'	I Cried for You	Bluesprint	05:41
Ben McPeek	He's So Fine	Peace Train	02:50
The Laurie Bower Singers	Got A Feelin'	Got a Feelin' for Love	02:32
Phil Nimmons Group	In a Minor Mode	Nimmons 'N' Nine	04:47
The Laurie Bower Singers	Song Sung Blue	Morning Has Broken	03:11
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Too Late Now	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	05:59
The Laurie Bower Singers	Happy Dreamer	Wish I Was A Plane	03:36

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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