The Vancouver Jazz Scene

Cradled between mountains and ocean, Vancouver’s jazz scene flows with creativity, openness, and West Coast cool. This collection showcases the city’s rich musical tapestry—from smoky clubs in Gastown to avant-garde loft sessions and seaside festivals. Home to boundary-pushing improvisers, lyrical composers, and deep-pocket rhythm sections, The Vancouver Jazz Scene blends tradition with experimentation, reflecting the diverse spirit of the city itself. A soundtrack of rain, rhythm, and reinvention.

Artist	Track	Title	Length
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Steppin Out With My Baby	Dal Richards! And Friends	03:06
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Where or When	A Tribute to the Crooners	02:35
Pacific Salt	Old Yale	ST	03:44
Black Cultured Pearl	Don't Get Around Much Anymore	Pearl	04:25
McNeil, Lynne	Lush Life	I Did It!...My Way	04:58
McDougall, Ian	Sixth Sense	Warmth Of The Horn (Ian McDougall Quartet)	04:41
Black Cultured Pearl	Smiles	Goin' Down Home	03:29
Black Cultured Pearl	Smile	Pearl	03:43
New Orchestra Quintet	Delicate Chestnut Roll	Up 'Til Now	15:44
New Orchestra Quintet	Terminal Shift	Up 'Til Now	11:04
Kenney, Mart	Creole Love Song	Classics	02:37
McDougall, Ian	Memories of You	Just a Song	03:38
Deep Cove Big Band	Everybody Loves My Baby	ST	01:57
Ginn, Judy (Walchuk)	Come Back to Me	The Songs of Judy Ginn, Orchestra Directed By Doug Parker	02:27
Centro, Vic Sextet	It's Only a Paper Moon	ST	02:29
Deep Cove Big Band	Moonlight Serenade	ST	03:35
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Honeysuckle Gal	Beautiful Canada	02:45
Hasselbach, Mark	Afrodesia	Perspective: Solar Winds	05:48
Deep Cove Big Band	Sudden Sam	ST	03:57
Black Cultured Pearl	Solitude	Goin' Down Home	02:30
Pacific Salt	Raw Toast	ST	02:37
Kenney, Mart	In The Shadow Of The Mountains	Songs of Norma Locke	02:43
McDougall, Ian	Then Came September	Rio (Ron Johnston, Ian McDougall, Oliver Gannon)	05:42
Ginn, Judy (Walchuk)	Other Side of the Tracks	The Songs of Judy Ginn, Orchestra Directed By Doug Parker	02:32
Parker, Doug	Profile	Vancouver Instrumental	02:37
Taylor, Joani	Harbour Light	CBC Comp 417 comp	03:02
Hasselbach, Mark	Heatstroke	Perspective: Solar Winds	03:33
Parker, Doug	If	Vancouver Big Band	02:16
Jacobs, Dale	Splash	Live at Puccini's	05:18
MacPherson, Fraser	For All We Know	Fraser's Flutes	02:22
Bell, Bob	Necropolis 1	Necropolis	04:35
MacPherson, Fraser	It's a Musical World	With The Doug Parker Orchestra (Vancouver flutist)	02:44
Ramsay, Miles & Dave Robbins Big Band	Then Was Then	From CBC Vancouver	03:14
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Cold & Lonely Bird	Beautiful Canada	03:03
Kenney, Mart and his Orchestra	Canadian College Medley Part 2 (University of British Columbia - University of Western Ontario - University of Manitoba - University of Toronto	Canadian College Medley Part 1 (McGill, UofAlberta, Dalhoussie, Queen's // Canadian College Medley Part 2 (UBC, UofW Ontario, Uof Manitoba, Uof Toronto	03:15
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	What a Wonderful World (vocals Juliette)	Swingin' & Singin' (With Juliette)	02:21
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Out in the West	Beautiful Canada	02:27
Granger, Shirley	Stormy Weather	Amist the Black Eyes	04:28
Kenney, Mart	P.S. I Love You	Songs of Norma Locke	03:18
Black Cultured Pearl	Am I Blue	Pearl	04:16
McNeil, Lynne	Ragtime Annie (Lynne McNeil - Byron Bulloch)	I Did It!...My Way	02:46
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Land of Make Belief	Beautiful Canada	02:56
Thompson, Don	Song for Sonny	Country Place	07:59
McDougall, Ian	Wouldn't You Like	Just a Song	03:09
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Where Or When	Dal Richards! And Friends	02:29
Black Cultured Pearl	Try Alittle Tenderness	Pearl	04:18
McDougall, Ian	Rio	Rio (Ron Johnston, Ian McDougall, Oliver Gannon)	04:32
MacPherson, Fraser	Cotton Jenny	Fraser's Flutes	02:48
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Blues in the Night	Dal Richards! And Friends	03:36
Tilden, Bruce	Goodmorning Heartache	Together Ensemble	05:48
Taylor, Joani	With a Little Help From My Friends	Joani Taylor with Dave Robbins Orchestra and the Numerality Singers	02:27
McDougall, Ian	Sweet Love	Music by Ian McDougall	04:47
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Rudolph's Son	Beautiful Canada	02:49
Quartescence	Bossa Nova Scotia	ST	04:26
McDougall, Ian	Blue Skies	Warmth Of The Horn (Ian McDougall Quartet)	05:40
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Tommy Dorsey Medley: I'll Never Smile Again - This Love of Mine - I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You	Swing Is In... Vol. II	04:50
Hales, Bobby Big Band	Minor Event: Alto Sax Solo	One of My Bags	03:54
Deep Cove Big Band	Undecided	ST	02:00
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	That Holiday Feeling (vocals Juliette)	Swingin' & Singin' (With Juliette)	01:58
McDougall, Ian	A Portrait of Jenny	Rio (Ron Johnston, Ian McDougall, Oliver Gannon)	06:21
Tilden, Bruce	Attitude	Together Ensemble	04:01
Perry, P.J.	Candy Man	Saxophone - Bobby Hales Orchestra, Vancouver	02:09
Parker, Doug	Doug Parker Big Band - Carioca	Parker, Doug Big Band (split with Al Harris Ensemble)	02:53
Parker, Doug	Saturday Clothes	Vancouver Instrumental	02:35
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Tommy Dorsey Medley	Swingin' & Singin' (With Juliette)	04:50
Centro, Vic Sextet	El Choclo	ST	02:22
Compilation	The Ian McDougall Sextet - Ian Leaps Out	Jazz Vancouver	05:30
Kenney, Mart	The West A Nest And You (Theme)	Songs of Norma Locke	01:15
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	All Of Me	Dal Richards! And Friends	02:43
Robbins, Dave Band	Jazz Workshop Theme (March Winds Blow)	Happy Faces	00:25
Pacific Salt	P.J. Too!	Jazz Canadiana	04:53
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Circus Song	Beautiful Canada	02:47
Compilation	Ingrid Jensen - Fallin'	Jazz Vancouver	05:36
Black Cultured Pearl	Wynton 3	Goin' Down Home	07:22
McDougall, Ian	Moon River	The Very Thought Of You	03:39
Robbins, Dave Band	Have Vine Will Swing (feat. Fraser Macpherson, Don Thompson & Dave Robbins)	Happy Faces	06:40
McDougall, Ian	Fly Away	Just a Song	03:56
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	What a Wonderful World	Dal Richards! And Friends	04:00
Ginn, Judy (Walchuk)	Too Late Now	The Songs of Judy Ginn, Orchestra Directed By Doug Parker	02:38
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Beautiful Canada	Beautiful Canada	02:53
Compilation	Pat Coleman and The Bob Murphy Quartet - Alone Together	Jazz Vancouver	06:28
Ginn, Judy (Walchuk)	As Tears Go By	The Songs of Judy Ginn, Orchestra Directed By Doug Parker	02:40
McDougall, Ian	What Kind of Fool	Just a Song	03:54
Robbins, Dave Band	Jazz Workshop Theme (March Winds Blow) II	Happy Faces	01:41
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Chicken Song	Beautiful Canada	02:34
Pacific Salt	Something Soft	ST	05:43
Richards, Dal & his Orchestra	Babalu	Swingin' & Singin' (With Juliette)	02:19
Ramsay, Miles & Dave Robbins Big Band	You Stepped Out of a Dream	From CBC Vancouver	02:36
Robbins, Dave Band	Sixes & Sevens (feat. Dick Forrest & Fraser Macpherson)	Happy Faces	07:10
Parker, Doug	Doug Parker Big Band - It's Love	Parker, Doug Big Band (split with Al Harris Ensemble)	02:27
Ginn, Judy (Walchuk)	What Did I Have	The Songs of Judy Ginn, Orchestra Directed By Doug Parker	02:22
Robbins, Dave Band	Playa del Ray (feat. Chris Gage, Fraser Macpherson & Dave Robbins)	Happy Faces	07:00
MacPherson, Fraser	Colour of the Rainbow	The Sounds of Fraser MacPherson with the Doug Parker Orchestra	03:22
Deep Cove Big Band	Pennsylvania 6-5000	ST	03:22
MacPherson, Fraser	Easy to be Hard	The Sounds of Fraser MacPherson with the Doug Parker Orchestra	03:09
Thompson, Don	I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face	Circles	03:29
Ginn, Judy (Walchuk)	As Usual	The Songs of Judy Ginn, Orchestra Directed By Doug Parker	02:46
Granger, Shirley	I Need You	Amist the Black Eyes	02:33
McDougall, Ian	Centerpiece	Warmth Of The Horn (Ian McDougall Quartet)	06:19
Black Cultured Pearl	Confessin'	Goin' Down Home	05:14

The Vancouver Jazz Scene

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Jacobs, Dale - Live at Puccini's

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Pacific Salt - Jazz Canadiana

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McDougall, Ian - Just a Song

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Hasselbach, Mark - Perspective: Solar Winds

Ramsay, Miles & Dave Robbins Big Band - From CBC Vancouver

Compilation - CBC Comp 436

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MacPherson, Fraser - Fraser's Flutes

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Thompson, Don - Circles

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Centro, Vic Sextet - ST

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Kenney, Mart - Songs of Norma Locke

Slavin, Martin Sextet - ST (split with Charles Coleman Trio)

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McDougall, Ian - Music by Ian McDougall

Quartescence - ST

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Compilation - CBC Comp 409

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Parker, Doug - Parker, Doug Big Band (split with Al Harris Ensemble)

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New Orchestra Quintet - Up 'Til Now

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Thompson, Don - Country Place

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Hales, Bobby Big Band - Vancouver Instrumental

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Pacific Salt - Vancouver Instrumental Group

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Kenney, Mart and his Orchestra - Canadian College Medley Part 1 (McGill, UofAlberta, Dalhoussie, Queen's // Canadian College Medley Part 2 (UBC, UofW Ontario, Uof Manitoba, Uof Toronto

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Richards, Dal & his Orchestra - A Tribute to the Crooners

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Perry, P.J. - Saxophone - Bobby Hales Orchestra, Vancouver

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Richards, Dal & his Orchestra - Swing Is In... Vol. II

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Black Cultured Pearl - Goin' Down Home

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Parker, Doug - Vancouver Instrumental

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Granger, Shirley - Amist the Black Eyes

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Parker, Doug - Jewel of the West (Beautiful B.C.)

Bell, Bob - Necropolis

Dixieland Express Jazz Band - There's a Lot to See in B.C. b/w Twelfth St. Rag (picture sleeve)

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Robbins, Dave Band - ST

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