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	Length
Moe Koffman Quartet	The Gravy Waltz	ST	02:20
Bruno Gerussi & Tommy Ambrose	Winnipeg Hippie	Fuzzy Love	05:01
Compilation	Sunship Ensemble - Atlantic Rising	Ready or Not 2: Deep Jazz Grooves from the CBC Radio Canada Archive	05:28
Jimmy Namaro	Body and Soul	featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra	03:19
The Laurie Bower Singers	Don't Give Up On Us Baby	Looks Like We Made It	03:27
Fraser MacPherson	Sunshine Superman	The Sounds of Fraser MacPherson with the Doug Parker Orchestra	03:30
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass	I'll Take Romance (Oakland) (Norma Locke: vocals)	Norma Locke, vocalist	02:41
Gypsophilia	Jewish Dance Party!	Sa-Ba-Da-Ow!	01:54
Compilation	Ellis McLintock And His Orchestra - Say it Isn't So	Swing Canada Volume 2 Great Canadian Dance Bands 1938-49	02:39
Paul Zaza	Fine and Dandy	Faces and Places	02:31
Moe Koffman	Le Reveil (Largo)	The Four Seasons	04:43
Chicho Valle	Magic Is The Moonlight	Este Es Chicho Valle	03:01
Bobby Hales Big Band	Talk Trap	One of My Bags	03:54
Lee Gagnon	Rybo-Nucleic Rhumba	Jazzzzz	12:10
Bob Francis	Love the One You're With	with Thursday's Children & The Guido Basso Orchestra (from CBC TV's Bandwagon)	02:16
Lucio Agostini	Linstead Market	Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini	02:01
Joanne Miller	Americana Theme	Une histoire d'amour	01:16
Song To The Source	Old Mr. Mole (Kelly Crowe)	ST	04:05
Elizabeth Shepherd	Pourquoi tu vis	Rewind	03:14
Moe Koffman	Icicle Bells (Allegro)	The Four Seasons	05:31
Canadian All Stars	Hello Young Lovers	ST	03:08
Marty Gillan	Talk It Over in the Morning	With Doug Parker Band	02:16
Dr. Music	Too High	Doug Riley Transcription	04:40
Terry Watada	Weekend	Night's Disgrace	03:18
Guy Lombardo	Harbor Lights	Enjoy Yourself!	03:00
1001 EST Crémazie	Le roi	ST	04:12
Art Hallman and His Orchestra	Spanish Eyes	Turn Back the Pages of Time	02:50
David Amram	Greasy Spoon	Summer Nights, Winter Rain	03:25
Compilation	Capt. Bob Farnon And The Canadian Band of the AEF - Candy	Swing Canada Volume 2 Great Canadian Dance Bands 1938-49	02:50
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty	Summer Love	Do Something Nice Today! b/w Summer Love	02:41
The Laurie Bower Singers	Key Largo	Laurie Bower	03:22
The Laurie Bower Singers	How The Singers Sing	Morning Has Broken	03:06
Neil Chotem	Pizza For Tony	Lucille Dumont and Robert Demontigny, vocalists	02:19
Holly Cole	Girl Talk	Girl Talk	04:32
Jimmy Namaro	One of a Kind Mambo	With Mallets A 4 Thought	02:29
Ron Collier Tentet	Come Sunday	ST	03:02
Ian McDougall	It Had to Be You	The Very Thought Of You	03:21
1001 EST Crémazie	Watermelon Man	ST	03:04
P.J. Perry	Sermonette	Come Sunday (with Doug Riley)	04:34
Moe Koffman	Overture To Spring (Allegro)	The Four Seasons	03:49
Johnny Cowell	Quiet Girl	The Tender Loving Care	02:19
Compilation	Snowmen	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	03:58
Oscar Peterson Trio	Laurentide Waltz	Canadiana Suite	05:20
Brian Browne Trio with Henry Cuesta	You Forgot Your Gloves	The Brian Browne Trio	02:13
Al Harris	Romeo & Juliet	Ampersand	01:24
Lorne Lofsky	Morning Star	The Quartet Of Lorne Lofsky And Friend	07:07
The Laurie Bower Singers	Sir Duke	Looks Like We Made It	03:00
Eugene Amaro	Georgia	Eugene Amaro	04:53
Compilation	Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians - Cotton Picker's Ball (1924)	Jazz and Hot Dance in Canada: 1916-1949	02:48
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Reminiscing	Reminiscing: Featuring Teddy Roderman, trombonist	04:08
Marla Guloien	The Road to Home (feat. Miles Black)	Debut	04:23
Johnny Cowell	Blood of the Brave Bull	The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems	02:12
Shirley Eikhard	How the Shadow Grows	The Last Hurrah	04:27
Jack Grunsky	He for Getz (She for Desmond)	Façade	04:05
Eddie Graf & His Orchestra	Let's Face the Music and Dance	And I Love Her	02:25
Howard Cable Orchestra	A Spoonful of Sugar	Howard Cable's Orchestra	01:52
Pat Riccio	What Now My Love	A Man and a Woman Strangers in the Night	02:38
Lee Gagnon	Gene Structure Ramble	Jazzzzz	08:45
2B3	Denis Keldie, Bill Payne - Life is a Carnival	The Toronto Sessions	05:31
Compilation	Eugene Robert - Serenade in the Rockies	Songs of British Columbia	02:05
Sonny Greenwich Quintet	Starlight: Diligence-the Struggle of the Seeker; Peace-at the Temple Gate; Joy-in the Presence of the Master	Sun Song: 'The Music of Sonny Greenwich'	17:29
Nick Ayoub (avec Rosita & Dino)	Samba Basque	Bossa Nova Jazz Samba	02:12
Hagood Hardy	Just the Way You Are	Reflections	04:01
Strings Unlimited	Midst of a Dance	The New Sound of	03:37
Jimmy Namaro	Climax	We Gotta Get It All Together	03:24
Lucio Agostini	The Girls of Spain	Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass	02:28
Marius Cultier	Cuando, Cuando	À la Place des Arts	02:23
Roger Gravel	Disco Tango	ST	04:10
The Laurie Bower Singers	Thorn In My Shoe	Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....	02:34
Laila Biali	Stolen Land	From Sea to Sky	05:10
Dino Pacifici	Living Alone	Become a Man	03:05
Guido Basso	Winter Wonderland	Christmas Today	02:42
Ben McPeek	Keyboard Grease	Only God Knows b/w Keyboard Grease	02:31
Meantime	Down by the Farm	Welcome: Mother Earth	06:22
Johnny Holmes Orchestra	Watch What Happens (Legrand–Gimbel, guitar feature Tony Romandini)	The Brass Therapy (Montreal Brass Band)	02:23
Wayne Eagles	Second Guessing	How's Now?	05:39
P.J. Perry	Until It's Time for You to Go	Saxophone - Bobby Hales Orchestra, Vancouver	02:57
Aura (Aura Urziceanu)	Down In Brasil	Once I Loved (Am Iubit Odată)	03:58
The Hometown Band	Wingless Bird	Flying	02:57
Dal Richards & his Orchestra	Blues in the Night	Dal Richards! And Friends	03:36
Paul Zaza	Sailing By	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	02:34
David Amram	Pull My Daisy	Summer Nights, Winter Rain	04:18
Hagood Hardy	Something in Your Smile	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:44
Carse Sneddon Quintet	Misty	ST	03:02
Bobby Edwards	Du Coeur (From The Heart)	Twilight Drive	03:29
L.V.J. Trio	Rock Around the Clock (Bill Haley)	The Big Bamboo	04:32
Dave Robbins Band	Jazz Workshop Theme (March Winds Blow)	Happy Faces	00:25
Fraser MacPherson	Gentle Rain	The Sounds of Fraser MacPherson with the Doug Parker Orchestra	03:37
Claude Léveillée & André Gagnon	Carousel	Léveillée - Gagnon	02:01
The Brian Browne Trio	Walk on By	Listen, People!	02:57
Emilie-Claire Barlow	Fix You	Clear Day	05:44
Lucio Agostini	Prairie Boy	Action With Agostini	03:29
Dal Richards & his Orchestra	(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66	Swing Is In... Vol. II	03:01
Judy Ginn (Walchuk)	Grateful	Without a Net	03:55
Al Michalek Quartet	Voices	Voices	05:29
Mart Kenney	Wooden Heart	Songs of Norma Locke	02:04
and Ron Johnston McDougall Oliver Gannon	Wouldn't You Like	Three	02:53
Chicho Valle	Red Canary	Chicho Valle Y Los Cubanos	02:05
Lou DeAdder	Sally Ann Goes to the Mall	Acoustic Pathways	03:18
John Oswald	Coda	Bloor (with Dominic Duval and David Prentice)	06:32

Jazz

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Salome Bey - I Like Your Company

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Salome Bey - In Montreux

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Salome Bey - ST

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Salome Bey - ST

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Salome Bey - Andy and the Bey Sisters

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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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Bobby Hales Big Band - One of My Bags

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Bobby Hales Big Band - Vancouver Instrumental

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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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Dal Richards & his Orchestra - Beautiful Canada

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Lynne McNeil - I Did It!...My Way

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Wayne Eagles - How's Now?

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

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

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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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Terry Bush - With The The Jim Pirie Orchestra

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David Lavoie Quartet - Teardown

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Fifth Avenue - Urban Sprawl

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Mart Kenney - Classics

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Jimmy Namaro - We Gotta Get It All Together

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Tony Quarrington - Deep River

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