Jazz

Jazz

Timeless, expressive, and ever-evolving—Jazz is where Canada's finest improvisers, composers, and stylists come to shine. This room spans the full spectrum of Canadian jazz, from swing and bebop to cool, fusion, free, and beyond. Featuring legends, hidden gems, and boundary-pushers from coast to coast, this collection captures the spirit of creativity, collaboration, and exploration that defines jazz. Always in motion, always in conversation—this is Canada’s jazz story, one note at a time.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Paul Bley Quartet Birk's Works Solemn Meditation
Compilation Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians, Lebert Lombardo, vocal - Nobody's Sweetheart (Kahn-Erdman-Meyers-Schoebel) (1928) Music (Makes The World Go 'Round): Dance Bands From Canada 1922-1930
Fred Stone Tamara The Music of Fred Stone
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Midnight Cowboy (John Barry) Now!
Pete Schofield and the Canadians I'll be Waiting Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎
Compilation Captain Bob Farnon And The Canadian Army Radio Orchestra - Theme & I Got Rhythm (Aug 27, 1945) Swing Canada Volume 3 Canadian Service Bands of WW II
Teddy Roderman Niagara Makin' It With You
Guido Basso All the Sad Young Men One More for the Road
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Manha de Carnaval (Bonfa-Mario) Norma Locke, vocalist
Portia White Là-bas sur ces montagnes (There on the Mountains) First You Dream
Compilation On a Wonderful Day Like Today (arranged by Howard Cable) Fall In: A Fun Fashion Musical
Tommy Banks Orchestra Knowing When to Leave Where You Gonna Put Your Head
Bob Francis For the Good Times with Thursday's Children & The Guido Basso Orchestra (from CBC TV's Bandwagon)
Compilation Herbie Spanier - Dimensions In Blue Jazz Toronto
Lucio Agostini Caramba (Lucio Agostini) Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass
Cal* Bostic Somewhere My Love Introducing...
Geraldine Hunt Mona Lisa Soultry, Jazzy And Sexy (featuring Freddie James & Rosalind AKA Cheri)
Jim Pirie Whatever's Fair Soulero: The Music of Today!
Eric Benson Make a Change Close the Door
Bill Butler Manhattan Serenade Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler
Willie Eckstein Lest You forget Lest You forget / Holland Moon
Lucio Agostini Little Chinook (Fred Diehl) Toronto Composer / Arranger
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Dancin' in the Dark Trombone Rob
Sandy Michael Where is the Love Calgary Vocalist
Tommy Banks Band Up a Lazy River For Dancers Only
Spitfire Band Thou Swell Big Band Swing Things
Marla Guloien Ain't Nobody Going to Hold Me Back Bad Ass Woman
Eugene Amaro Last Time I Felt Like This Warm
Ian McDougall Free Recall Rio (Ron Johnston, Ian McDougall, Oliver Gannon)
Ed Bickert It Might as Well Be Spring ST
Russ Little The Boy Next Door Footwork
Walter Boudreau Boul Chaumont Jazz - Walter Boudreau + 3 = 4
Agharta Femme et enfant ST
Teddy Roderman Feelin' Kinda Sunday Makin' It With You
Charles Coleman Trio A Chord-Ing to Charles ST (split with Martin Slavin Sextet)
Dal Richards & his Orchestra You'll Never Walk Alone Beautiful Canada
Mike Taylor I'll Remember April Why Not Now...
Canada Pops Up Where We Belong Did You Know?
Gary Guthman Spanish Dreams Moonchild
Guido Basso Lost in the Stars (Kurt Weill) Lost in the Stars
Carol McCartney I Concentrate On You A Night in Tunisia
Ben McPeek If You Could Read My Mind Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene
Al Baculis Singers Somebody Groovy Happy Together
Compilation Bert Niosi - Who'll Buy My Violets Canadian Talent at Work
Bob McMullin Frenesi Bob McMullin & His Music
Bobby Hales Big Band Fireball One of My Bags
Ed Bickert Soft Winds Out of the Past
Johnny Cowell with the Laurie Bower Singers The Ways of a Lonely Man Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Dick McClish Windy and Warm The Dick McClish Quintet
Paul Zaza Summertime Drive Faces and Places
Moe Koffman Sleep (Adagio) The Four Seasons
Betty Robertson Manha De Carnival Songs of Betty Robertson
Lorne Lofsky It Could Happen to You It Could Happen To You
Hagood Hardy A Boy Named Charlie Brown Maybe Tomorrow
Johnny Burt High F'lutin' The Big Band of Johnny Burt
Black Cultured Pearl Confessin' Goin' Down Home
New Orchestra Quintet Up 'Til Now Up 'Til Now
Peter Appleyard Fascinating Rhythm The Vibe Sound Of
Geraldine Hunt Call Me Soultry, Jazzy And Sexy (featuring Freddie James & Rosalind AKA Cheri)
Doug Randle London by Night (Doug Crosley, vocalist) Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists
Portia White Think On Me First You Dream
Ivana Santilli If I Ever Fall (Part 1) Brown
Bruno Gerussi & Tommy Ambrose Just Like a Man Fuzzy Love
Portia White Mayday Carol First You Dream
Ben McPeek Something Better to Do Thinking of You
Maynard Ferguson This Nite Color Him Wild
Ruth Lowe I'll Never Smile Again Patti Page - I'll Never Smile Again
Joani Taylor With a Little Help From My Friends Joani Taylor with Dave Robbins Orchestra and the Numerality Singers
Neil Chotem Louie Louie Neil Chotem Orchestra
Bruce Tilden Just the Two of Us Looking Back
Pete Schofield and the Canadians Loves Theme Yes It's Toronto with Karen Hendrix ‎
Compilation Howard Cable's Orchestra - Country Style Canadian Talent At Work!
Jimmy Namaro Baia featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra
Car 2167 Ronnie Laws ST
Destroyer Savage Night at the Opera Kaputt
Bill Badgley In the Arms of Love At the Ports of Call
Musical Friends Goin' Out of My Head Dirty Old Bossa Nova
Dorothy Collins (Marjorie Chandler) Swinging on a Star (1944) Recordings from the Raymond Scott Collection, 1942–1954 (Vol. 1)
Compilation George Sealy and His Orchestra - Moanin' At The Montmartre (1941) Jazz and Hot Dance in Canada: 1916-1949
Compilation Oliver Gannon - Quicksilver Jazz Vancouver
Stephanie Taylor Chelsea Morning (Joni Mitchell) "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Juliette (Juliette Augustina Sysak) Sunrise, Sunset (Bock-Harnick) Juliette with the Lucio Agostini Orchestra
Compilation Ellis McLintock And His Orchestra - Lonesome Road Swing Canada Volume 2 Great Canadian Dance Bands 1938-49
Johnny Cowell Satchmo (Louis Armstrong) The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Barry Newman Juan de Fuca Funk Noon Tide
Canada Pops Until It's Time For You To Go Did You Know?
Vic Centro Sextet Gone With the Wind ST
Jackie Mittoo Reggae Roots (Jackie Mittoo) Let's Put It all Together
Lenny Breau King of the Road Guitar Sounds From
Sheila Graham Gentle On My Mind ST
Oscar Peterson The Wheels of Life (Gino Vannelli) The Personal Touch
Deep Cove Big Band The Girl From Ipanema ST
Joanne Miller Stars in Your Eyes Une histoire d'amour
Alex Cuba Tu Boca Lo Quita Agua Del Pozo
Bobby Edwards Get Crazy With Me Rainbow
Compilation Manteca - Salsa Nova Jazz Toronto
Oliver Jones De gros bois blues (Oliver Jones) Live at Biddle's
Doug Parker The Accents - Jewel of the West (Beautiful B.C.) (Bossa Nova Version) Jewel of the West (Beautiful B.C.)
Spitfire Band Song of India ST
Guido Basso Two Bass Hit Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert

One of My Bags

Vancouver Instrumental

Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Deeper and Deeper

Footwork

Slow Burn

On the Shoulders of Giants

45-Russ Little - Ain't No Mountain High Enough VINYL 02

Snapshot

Beautiful Canada

I Did It!...My Way

How's Now?

CD-Wayne Eagles - How's Now CD

CD-Wayne Eagles - How's Now INSIDE FOLDOUT

CD-Wayne Eagles - How's Now FRONT FOLDOUT

CD-Wayne Eagles - How's Now INLAY BACK

If You Could Read My Mind/ Autumn Again b/w Do It Today/ Latin Afternoon

Ann Golden Sings...Art Morrow Swings! (Montreal Novelty)

Art Morrow - Ann Golden Sings VINYL 02

45-Art Morrow - If You Could Read My Mind VINYL 02

Wayne Eagles

The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

Montage

ST

45-Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path VINYL 02

Out of the Past

back

Terry Bush

With The The Jim Pirie Orchestra

Teardown

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