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
Kelowna Jazz Music Society and the Kelowna Secondary Jazz Ensemble The Suncatchers Suncatchers
Dave Robbins Band March Winds Blow (feat. Fraser Macpherson) Happy Faces
Dorothy Collins (Marjorie Chandler) Tiger Rag At Home With Dorothy And Raymond
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra Blue Mantilla ST
Salome Bey Medley: Honey Suckle Rose; Ain't Misbehavin'; I'm Gonna Set Right Down ST
Jerry Toth Singers Love Kept On Moment of Love
Ben McPeek Goodbye If Only We Could See b/w Goodbye
Al Michalek Quartet Voices Voices
The Laurie Bower Singers Crooked Mile Wish I Was A Plane
Aura (Aura Urziceanu) For All We Know Oh, My Love
Dorothy Collins (Marjorie Chandler) I Opened Up a Trunk (1942) Recordings from the Raymond Scott Collection, 1942–1954 (Vol. 1)
Guido Basso Suite P.E.I. Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert
Mark Kelso Looking Glass Lost Kingdoms
Sounds Company The Shadow of Your Smile Jimmy Dale Orchestra & Chorus with Rhonda Silver and Tommy Ambrose ‎
Lucio Agostini Chuck Wagon Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Car 2167 Take Time ST
Phil Nimmons Group Swing Softly Nimmons 'N' Nine
The Laurie Bower Singers Wish I Was A Plane Wish I Was A Plane
Yvan Landry Quartet Dimanche A Rio - Sunday In Rio Café Au Lait
Dave Robbins Band Playa del Ray (feat. Chris Gage, Fraser Macpherson & Dave Robbins) Happy Faces
Betty Robertson I Want to be Happy Songs of Betty Robertson
Lucio Agostini Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass
Portia White Steal Away First You Dream
Pat Riccio Deep Purple Stranger On the Shore
Compilation Raffi - Thinking Only of You CBC Comp 402
Dorothy Collins (Marjorie Chandler) Singin' in the Rain (1949, Single Version) Recordings from the Raymond Scott Collection, 1942–1954 (Vol. 1)
Jerry Toth Little Boy Blue The Twelve Sides Of
Bruno Gerussi & Tommy Ambrose Prologue Fuzzy Love
Al Baculis Singers I'm Gonna Go Fishin' Back to Baculis
Bill Butler My Heart at thy Sweet Voice Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler
Compilation Claude Blouin - In An Old Shanty Town CBC Comp 405
Compilation Jerry Toth - But for Love Motorcars In Concert 1970
Shirley Harmer Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries Shirley Harmer Sings
Don Thompson Tanga Circles
Dave Turner Quartet You Stepped Out of a Dream The Pulse Brothers
Susie Arioli Swing Band Instrumental #2 It's Wonderful
Paul Horn Fun Time Profile Of A Jazz Musician
Shuffle Demons Big Daddy, Fat Boy Streetniks
Graham Teear Baby, Talk to Me Songs With Orchestra
Galt MacDermot M'Babam Shapes of Rhythm
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Rudolph's Son Beautiful Canada
The Laurie Bower Singers Key Largo Laurie Bower
Hagood Hardy Maybe Tomorrow Maybe Tomorrow
Doug Parker Doug Parker Big Band - It's Love Parker, Doug Big Band (split with Al Harris Ensemble)
Jimmy Namaro Balikpapan Driftwood
Johnny Cowell Song of Joy The Virtuoso Trumpet
Hagood Hardy & the Montage The Garden Path Montage
Claude Léveillée & André Gagnon Baie des sable Léveillée - Gagnon
Teddy Roderman Mississippi Stay Awhile
Black Cultured Pearl Intro to Pearl Pearl
Catherin McLellan Group featuring Peter Fleming Surrey With the Fringe on Top Cause It Feels So Good
Jack Grunsky Poolside Manners Coastlines
Dal Richards & his Orchestra What a Wonderful World (vocals Juliette) Swingin' & Singin' (With Juliette)
Art Snider Sweet Caroline Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Billy Martin Autumn Leaves The Mellow Sax Of John Scott
Al Harris Autumn Nights The Al Harris Ensemble (split with Doug Parker Big Band)
Neil Chotem La croques de diamants Neil Chotem Orchestra
Compilation Fraser MacPherson Quartet - Blue Prelude Jazz Vancouver
Tommy Banks Orchestra Little Kind Words (Skip Prokop) Canadian Hits (Edmonton Instrumental)
Barry Newman Burnin' Wolf's Beef Noon Tide
Demo Cates Shake Down Thirteen Shades of Soul
Hot Club Edmonton Sweet Georgia Brown ST
Johnny Cowell Ruby Begonia Hot Brass
Salome Bey Untitled Love Song I Like Your Company
Brian Browne Trio with Henry Cuesta Lazy Bones The Brian Browne Trio
Molly Johnson Mean to Me Lucky
Lorne Lofsky Nancy With the Laughing Face It Could Happen To You
Dorothy Collins (Marjorie Chandler) Sometimes I'm Happy (1949, Single Version) Recordings from the Raymond Scott Collection, 1942–1954 (Vol. 1)
Compilation Les Jérolas - Le carnaval de Montréal Montréal: Un Portrait Musical
Lucio Agostini Cocktails In New York Once Upon a Hundred Years
Dave Robbins Band What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? ST
Oscar Peterson Trio Ballad to the East Canadiana Suite
Denny Vaughan Can't Help Falling in Love With You A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"
Compilation Alfredo And His Band, Eddie Grossbart, vocal - Puttin' On The Ritz (Berlin) (1930) Music (Makes The World Go 'Round): Dance Bands From Canada 1922-1930
Vic Centro Sextet Serenata ST
Kelowna Jazz Music Society and the Kelowna Secondary Jazz Ensemble Ahunk Ahunk Suncatchers
Al Harris Jamaica Farewell Ampersand
Geraldine Hunt Murphy's Law Soultry, Jazzy And Sexy (featuring Freddie James & Rosalind AKA Cheri)
Al Michalek Quartet Portrait Voices
Pat Riccio I'll Get By Stranger On the Shore
Peter Appleyard Moon Of Manakoora Vibraphone of Peter Appleyard
Billy Robinson Evolution's Blend Evolution's Blend
Compilation Bert Niosi - Who'll Buy My Violets Canadian Talent at Work
Captain Farnon Bob When You And I Were Young, Maggie The Lost Recordings (With The Canadian Band Of The Allied Expeditionary Force)
Shirley Eikhard How the Shadow Grows The Last Hurrah
Joan Fairfax & Denny Vaughan I Like It, I like It, I Like It I Like It, I like It, I Like It // Won't You Love Me
Jimmy Namaro When the World Was Young featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra
Jackie Mittoo Laughter in the Rain Let's Put It all Together
Compilation David Foster - Listen to Daddy Unselfconsciously Canadian
P.J. Perry Stuffy Turkey PJ Perry Trio
Ben McPeek Thinking of You Thinking of You
Jimmy Namaro Misty Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury
Tommy Banks Orchestra Where You Gonna Put Your Head (Tommy Banks) Where You Gonna Put Your Head
Denny Vaughan Dolores Girls I Knew
John Arpin Great Scott Rag Concert In Ragtime
Compilation Hagood Hardy & The Montage - Won’t You Step Into My Life Youth for Canada Easy Listening Canadian Olympics Association
Betty Robertson I Don't Want to Walk Without You Songs of Betty Robertson
Marius Cultier Juanita morel À la Place des Arts
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra Sleeping Beauty Waltz Trombone - Teddy Roderman
L.V.J. Trio Rock Around the Clock (Bill Haley) The Big Bamboo

FEATURED

Bruce Tilden - Looking Back

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

The Hometown Band - Flying

Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rick Wilkins - My Heart Belongs to Me

Hamilton - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Ensemble Infini - Volume ∞

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Canadian All Stars - ST

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Canadian All Stars - ST

FEATURED

Denny Vaughan - Girls I Knew

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → London, England, 🇬🇧 → New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦 → California, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Denny Vaughan - Denny Vaughan & His Orchestra

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → London, England, 🇬🇧 → New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦 → California, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Denny Vaughan - A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → London, England, 🇬🇧 → New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦 → California, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Denny Vaughan - Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦 → London, England, 🇬🇧 → New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦 → California, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Joan Fairfax & Denny Vaughan - I Like It, I like It, I Like It // Won't You Love Me

Blackburn, Lancashire, England, 🇬🇧 → Oakville Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ron Collier Orchestra & Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington: "North of the Border" in Canada

Coleman, Alberta → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ron Collier Tentet - ST

Coleman, Alberta → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ed Bickert - The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)

Hochfeld, Manitoba→Vernon, British Columbia→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Chicho Valle - Chicho Valle Y Los Cubanos

Cienfuegos, Cuba → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Johnny Holmes Orchestra - 17-piece Montreal Orchestra

Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Joyce Sullivan - The Songs of Joyce Sullivan

Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Salome Bey - ST

Newark, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Tommy Ambrose - Sweet Times

FEATURED

Jimmy Namaro - We Gotta Get It All Together

Columbus, Michigan, 🇺🇸 (or La Rosita, Mexico) → Hamilton, Ontario → Richmond, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Johnny Cowell - His Girl

Tillsonburg, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Dianne Brooks - CBC Comp 404

New Jersey, 🇺🇸 - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass - The Big Band Hour (England, UK) (unreleased)

London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Bob McMullin - One Minuters

Lewiston, Utah, 🇺🇸 → Raymond → Edmonton, Alberta → Winnipeg, Manitoba, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Diane Miller - Mr. Teperman b/w Baby That's the Way it Goes

Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Shirley Lewis Show Band

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - The Ones Ahead

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → New Brunswick, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ed Bickert - ST

Hochfeld, Manitoba→Vernon, British Columbia→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ed Bickert - Bye Bye Baby

Hochfeld, Manitoba→Vernon, British Columbia→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ed Bickert - I Like To Recognize the Tune

Hochfeld, Manitoba→Vernon, British Columbia→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

Compilation

Looking Back

Flying

Bruce Tilden

Bruce Tilden - Lookinn Back CD

Bruce Tilden - Lookinn Back INSIDE

Bruce Tilden - Lookinn Back BACK

Bruce Tilden - Lookinn Back INLAY

My Heart Belongs to Me

Volume ∞

Ensemble Infini Volume ∞ (3)

Ensemble Infini Volume ∞ (2)

Ensemble Infini Volume ∞ (1)

21 - Guy Thouin (Photo 2 by-par Mlynello)

20 - Guy Thouin (Photo by-par Mlynello)

Ensemble Infini

ST

ST

Canadian All Stars - ST BACK

Canadian All Stars - ST BACK

Girls I Knew

Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By

Denny Vaughan And His Queen Elizabeth Hotel Orchestra – Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By (3)

Denny Vaughan And His Queen Elizabeth Hotel Orchestra – Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By (2)

Denny Vaughan And His Queen Elizabeth Hotel Orchestra – Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By (1)

Denny Vaughn Girls I Knew (4)

Denny Vaughn Girls I Knew (3)

Denny Vaughn Girls I Knew (2)

I Like It, I like It, I Like It // Won't You Love Me

Denny Piano circa 1949b

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