The Vancouver Jazz Scene

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 tapestryβ€”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.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Pacific Salt 16th Avenue Shuffle Jazz Canadiana
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Dancing In The Dark A Tribute to the Crooners
Bobby Hales Big Band Funklickity Vancouver Instrumental
Bruce Tilden Garden of Gethsemane Together Ensemble
New Orchestra Quintet Up 'Til Now Up 'Til Now
Don Thompson One Morning In May Circles
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Strike Up the Band Swing Is In... Vol. II
Pacific Salt Spring's Garden Vancouver Instrumental Group
Dal Richards & his Orchestra I Love Being Here With You Dal Richards! And Friends
Ian McDougall Someone to Watch Over Me The Very Thought Of You
Black Cultured Pearl Wynton 2 Goin' Down Home
Doug Parker Doug Parker Big Band - The In Crowd Parker, Doug Big Band (split with Al Harris Ensemble)
Dal Richards & his Orchestra All Of Me Dal Richards! And Friends
Joani Taylor Walkin' Happy Joani Taylor with Dave Robbins Orchestra and the Numerality Singers
Martin Slavin Sextet It Happened in the Spring ST (split with Charles Coleman Trio)
Black Cultured Pearl Wrap Your Troubles Away Pearl
Dal Richards & his Orchestra The Girl From Ipanema Dal Richards! And Friends
Dale Jacobs Discovery (CBC Radio Olympic Theme) Live at Puccini's
Fraser MacPherson Ballad of the Sad Young Men With The Doug Parker Orchestra (Vancouver flutist)
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Cold & Lonely Bird Beautiful Canada
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Babalu Swingin' & Singin' (With Juliette)
Doug Parker If You Could Read My Mind Vancouver Instrumental
Fraser MacPherson Cotton Jenny Fraser's Flutes
Dal Richards & his Orchestra How High the Moon Swingin' & Singin' (With Juliette)
Fraser MacPherson Pink and Purple Daisies The Sounds of Fraser MacPherson with the Doug Parker Orchestra
P.J. Perry Candy Man Saxophone - Bobby Hales Orchestra, Vancouver
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Cheek to Cheek A Tribute to the Crooners
Bruce Tilden Summertime Together Ensemble
Ian McDougall Aztec Music by Ian McDougall
Judy Ginn (Walchuk) As Usual The Songs of Judy Ginn, Orchestra Directed By Doug Parker
Dal Richards & his Orchestra The Hour of Parting (Vocal) A Tribute to the Crooners
Compilation Metalwood - Teed Jazz Vancouver
Compilation Doug Parker Orchestra - Thank God I'm a Country Boy CBC Comp 436
Miles Ramsay & Dave Robbins Big Band Speak Low From CBC Vancouver
Vic Centro Sextet My Heart Cries For You ST
Dale Jacobs Without Reservation Live at Puccini's
Don Thompson Full Nelson Country Place
Dal Richards & his Orchestra You'll Never Walk Alone Beautiful Canada
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Route 66 Swingin' & Singin' (With Juliette)
New Orchestra Quintet 10 x 10 Up 'Til Now
Vic Centro Sextet Moonlight Serenade ST
Don Thompson Tanga Circles
Dale Jacobs A Last Look at the Summer Live at Puccini's
Black Cultured Pearl Lover Man Goin' Down Home
Bobby Hales Big Band Fireball One of My Bags
Miles Ramsay & Dave Robbins Big Band Cotton Fields From CBC Vancouver
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Honeysuckle Gal Beautiful Canada
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Steppin Out With My Baby Dal Richards! And Friends
Ian McDougall English Bay Music by Ian McDougall
Dal Richards & his Orchestra New York, New York Swingin' & Singin' (With Juliette)
Fraser MacPherson It's a Musical World With The Doug Parker Orchestra (Vancouver flutist)
Pacific Salt No Hope, No Fear Jazz Canadiana
Mart Kenney Mart Kenneys Classics Classics
Deep Cove Big Band Moonlight Serenade ST
Compilation Christine Duncan - Why So Blue Jazz Vancouver
Compilation Ingrid Jensen - Fallin' Jazz Vancouver
Ian McDougall Warm Warmth Of The Horn (Ian McDougall Quartet)
Dave Robbins Band Sunday Blues (Don Clark) ST
Miles Ramsay & Dave Robbins Big Band Love From CBC Vancouver
Compilation Oliver Gannon - Quicksilver Jazz Vancouver
Ian McDougall Bossa Bossa Jo-Jo Music by Ian McDougall
Ian McDougall Lament Warmth Of The Horn (Ian McDougall Quartet)
Mart Kenney Put On A Happy Face Songs of Norma Locke
Bobby Hales Big Band Formula #1 One of My Bags
Ian McDougall Killin' Time Just a Song
Don Thompson Second Voyage Country Place
Pacific Salt Old Yale ST
Bobby Hales Big Band The Writing's On the Wall (Domenic Troiano) Vancouver Instrumental
Ian McDougall It Had to Be You The Very Thought Of You
Doug Parker Doug Parker Orchestra - Jewel of the West (Beautiful B.C.) (Choral Version) Jewel of the West (Beautiful B.C.)
Ian McDougall Blue Skies Warmth Of The Horn (Ian McDougall Quartet)
Compilation Ian McDougall - Seems Like Samba CBC Comp 409
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Caravan Dal Richards! And Friends
Dale Jacobs What Else Live at Puccini's
Mart Kenney The West, a Nest, and You Dear Classics
Judy Ginn (Walchuk) Come Back to Me The Songs of Judy Ginn, Orchestra Directed By Doug Parker
Deep Cove Big Band For Swinging Dancers ST
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Nothing is as Nice Beautiful Canada
Pacific Salt So Be It Jazz Canadiana
Dave Robbins Band Minority (feat. Don Clark & Chris Gage) Happy Faces
Pacific Salt Four Leaf Clover Man Jazz Canadiana
Black Cultured Pearl Don't Get Around Much Anymore Pearl
Mart Kenney and his Orchestra Get Your Wings (Fox Trot) We're Proud of Canada // Get Your Wings (Fox Trot)
Ian McDougall Just a Song Just a Song
Mart Kenney It's Wonderful Classics
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Stormy Weather Amist the Black Eyes
Ian McDougall It's My Turn Just a Song
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Benny Goodman Medley Swingin' & Singin' (With Juliette)
Vic Centro Sextet End of a Love Affair ST
Black Cultured Pearl Blue Skies Goin' Down Home
Dal Richards & his Orchestra That Holiday Feeling (vocals Juliette) Swingin' & Singin' (With Juliette)
Black Cultured Pearl Poor Some More Goin' Down Home
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Pussy Cat Song Beautiful Canada
Dal Richards & his Orchestra I've Got a Gal In Kalamazoo Swing Is In... Vol. II
Pacific Salt P.J. Too! Jazz Canadiana
Lynne McNeil Green, Green Grass of Home I Did It!...My Way
Lynne McNeil Lover Man I Did It!...My Way
Black Cultured Pearl Intro to Pearl Pearl
Vic Centro Sextet El Choclo ST
Judy Ginn (Walchuk) I'm Beginning to See The Light vocalist, with Doug Parker Orchestra (split with Mary-Lou Collins & Ricky Hyslop Orchestra)

Amist the Black Eyes

Shirley Granger - Amist the Black Eyes MINT LABEL 02

Shirley Granger - Amist the Black Eyes MINT LABEL 01

Shirley Granger - Amist the Black Eyes MINT BACK

Granger, Shirley (Shirley Fay, Shirley Lewis)*

Granger, Shirley (Shirley Lewis)*

Granger, Shirley (Shirley Lewis)*

Granger, Shirley (Shirley Lewis)*

Up 'Til Now

New Orchestra Quintet

New Orchestra Quintet - Up 'Til Now BACK

I Did It!...My Way

Lynne McNeil - I Did It My Way BACK

McNeil, Lynne

Swing Is In... Vol. II

Lynne and Stephanie - The Montage

McNeil, Lynne

McNeil, Lynne

Happy Faces

Robbins, Dave Band

ST

Robbins, Dave Band - Happy Faces (7)

Robbins, Dave Band - Happy Faces (6)

Robbins, Dave Band - Happy Faces (5)

Robbins, Dave Band - Happy Faces (4)

Robbins, Dave Band - Happy Faces (3)

Robbins, Dave Band - Happy Faces (2)

Robbins, Dave Band - Happy Faces (1)

Robbins, Dave Band setcellar

Robbins, Dave Band

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