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	In the Arms of Love	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:34
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Caribbean Moonlight	ST	03:09
The Laurie Bower Singers	Evergreen	Looks Like We Made It	03:27
Jimmy Dale	Guanabara	Soft and Groovy	02:42
Guido Basso	Gentle Rain	One More for the Road	04:58
Lucio Agostini	A Banda	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	01:48
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Petite Waltz	Reminiscing: Featuring Teddy Roderman, trombonist	02:05
Ivy Steel	Prelude to a Kiss	Reincarnation	04:55
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Guantanamera	Montage	03:09
Lenny Breau	That's All	The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!	05:53
Herb Marshall	Make it With You (David Gates - Bread)	Toronto Vocalist	01:48
Lucio Agostini	Dundurn Castle	Once Upon a Hundred Years	01:08
Russ Little	One Note Samba	Snapshot	05:48
Rick Wilkins	My Heart Belongs to Me	My Heart Belongs to Me	03:16
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Baby Elephant Walk	The Old Meets the New	04:32
Tony Quarrington	One Bright Morning	One Bright Morning	06:32
Rick Wilkins	I Could Have Been a Sailor	Discovery	02:59
Moe Koffman	Jazz Merengue	Tales of Koffman	03:45
Jerry Toth	Theme From "Search"	The Twelve Sides Of	02:24
The Laurie Bower Singers	The Young New Mexican Pupeteer	Morning Has Broken	03:12
Lenny Breau	Monday, Monday	Guitar Sounds From	02:30
The Laurie Bower Singers	Don't Ask Me Why	It Goes Like It Goes	02:56
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Medley: It's Too Late-I Feel the Grass Grow Beneath My Feet	Montage	04:28
Guido Basso	East of the Sun	One More for the Road	07:21
Moe Koffman	Twistin' and Bumpin'	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:15
Lenny Breau	Compared To What	Minor's Aloud	04:44
Kathryn Moses	Ready or Not	ST	03:39
Rick Wilkins	The Way You Look Tonight	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	05:33
Henry Cuesta	Am I in Love?	Clarinet With Strings	02:22
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Blue Mantilla	ST	02:47
Norman Amadio Trio	Frenesi	ST	02:05
Norman Amadio Trio	The Very Thought of You	ST	03:07
The Laurie Bower Singers	Up On Cripple Creek	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:14
Norman Amadio Trio	Alleluia D.T.'s.	ST	01:57
Ben McPeek	Laughing	Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene	02:25
Paul Zaza	Sun Ranch	Coasting (with Isaacs)	02:11
Moe Koffman	The Swingin' Shepherd Blues	Goes Electric	02:51
Peter Appleyard	You Put the Shine on Me	Peter Appleyard Presents	03:16
Tony Quarrington	Princesse en Promenade	One Bright Morning	13:06
Russ Little	Too Late Baby	Ain't No Mountain High Enough	03:03
Hagood Hardy	When the First Snow Falls	The Christmas Album	04:15
Peter Appleyard	Where is the Love	The Lincolnshire Poacher	02:17
John Arpin	Great Scott Rag	Concert In Ragtime	02:25
Jerry Toth	Tell Me Now	Tell Me Now b/w It's a Great Life (with The Gossips)	02:50
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	007 Medley (Dr. No, Goldfinger)	The Old Meets the New	02:51
John Arpin	Cotton Jenny	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	02:14
Rick Wilkins	Emotion	For the Sake of Music	03:28
Ben McPeek	Every Bit of Love	Thinking of You	02:28
John Arpin	Sunburst Rag (1909)	Other Side Of Ragtime	02:51
The Laurie Bower Singers	Pussywillow Cat-tails	Morning Has Broken	02:53
The Laurie Bower Singers	Take Me Home Country Roads	Take Me Home Country Roads	02:40
Moe Koffman	Song for My Father	Turned on	02:54
Lucio Agostini	Sunwheel Dance (Bruce Cockburn)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	02:14
Denny Vaughan	Ain't We Got Fun	Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By	01:57
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Medley #1: Rose of Washington Square; Yes Sir, That's My Baby; Sweet Georgia Brown (featuring Alexander "Ragtime" Read)	Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read	02:07
Russ Little	Blue Monk	On the Shoulders of Giants	04:13
Phil Nimmons Group	A Spoonful of Sugar	Mary Popppins Swings	04:07
Ben McPeek	Who Can I Turn to	His Voices and His Orchestra	03:12
Henry Cuesta	Lonely Girl	Clarinet With Strings	02:29
Rick Wilkins	Neat!	My Heart Belongs to Me	03:13
Peter Appleyard	Crazy Rhythm	The Vibe Sound Of	02:36
Peter Appleyard	There Will Never Be Another You	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:46
Ed Bickert	Soft Winds	Out of the Past	08:01
Paul Zaza	Portrait of a Rose	Faces and Places	02:47
Doug Randle	Once Upon a Time (Doug Crosley, vocalist)	Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists	03:49
Hagood Hardy	The Children's Song	As Time Goes By	02:21
The Laurie Bower Singers	Rain Brings People Together	Wish I Was A Plane	03:12
Peter Appleyard	Conversation	The Vibraphone Of	02:31
Rick Wilkins	The Closer I Get To You	For the Sake of Music	03:23
Bill Butler	The Girl that I Marry (mono version)	The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler	02:33
Jackie Richardson	I Alone	Woman's View... Through Child Eyes	00:27
Lucio Agostini	Captain Bacardi	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	02:34
The Laurie Bower Singers	The Importance of the Rose	Feelin'	02:07
Doug Randle	The Doug Randle Orchestra - Bauble Bangles And Beads	Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)	02:33
Johnny Cowell	Don't Mention My Name	Hot Brass	01:56
Moe Koffman	Do You Know the Way to San Jose	Turned on	02:32
Guido Basso	Jingle Bells	Christmas Today	02:08
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
Rick Wilkins	Len's Den	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	04:33
Moe Koffman	Bei Mir Bist Du Schön	Cool and Hot Sax	03:12
Doug Riley	Theme for Adele	Freedom	07:05
Jimmy Namaro	Babylon	At the Westbury	03:44
Peter Appleyard	Harlem Nocturne	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:31
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Loves Theme	Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎	03:45
Guido Basso	Waters of March (Antonio Carlos Jobim)	Lost in the Stars	05:25
Moe Koffman	Doxy	The Shepherd Swings Again	03:44
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Invocation: Gold (The Challenge)	Transformations - Invocations	10:24
Denny Vaughan	Miss Wistful	Girls I Knew	02:38
Bill Badgley	Music to Watch Girls By	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:29
Guido Basso	Anniversary Song	It's Happening (re-issue)	02:09
The Laurie Bower Singers	Mississippi	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	03:00
Guido Basso	Yesterday When I Was Young (live) (Charles Aznavour)	Lost in the Stars	04:51
Russ Little	I Want to Make it With You (David Gates)	Deeper and Deeper	02:46
The Laurie Bower Singers	You're Driving Me Crazy	Feelin'	02:57
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	I Love to Play (Opening Theme)	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	00:54
Teddy Roderman	Lovers Roulette	Teddy Roderman's 6 Trombones	01:54
Guido Basso	Ten Little Indians	It's Happening (re-issue)	02:07
Peter Appleyard	Hells Bells	The Vibraphone Of	01:46
Kathryn Moses	Midmorning	ST	04:12
Herb Marshall	Get Out of My Life Woman (Allen Toussaint)	Toronto Vocalist	03:00

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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