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 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.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Pacific Salt Bossa Bossa Vancouver Instrumental Group
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Walkin' On New Grass (vocals Juliette) Swingin' & Singin' (With Juliette)
Mart Kenney The West, a Nest, and You Dear Classics
Bobby Hales Big Band Formula #1 One of My Bags
Judy Ginn (Walchuk) So Long Dearie The Songs of Judy Ginn, Orchestra Directed By Doug Parker
Black Cultured Pearl Confessin' Goin' Down Home
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Chicago (That Toddlin' Town) Swing Is In... Vol. II
Black Cultured Pearl Solitude Goin' Down Home
Mart Kenney No Strings Medley Classics
Pacific Salt You're My Little Sweetheart ST
Fraser MacPherson Everybody's Talkin' The Sounds of Fraser MacPherson with the Doug Parker Orchestra
Lynne McNeil Green, Green Grass of Home I Did It!...My Way
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Stardust A Tribute to the Crooners
New Orchestra Quintet Delicate Chestnut Roll Up 'Til Now
Dal Richards & his Orchestra My Heart Belongs To Daddy Dal Richards! And Friends
Bobby Hales Big Band Funlickity One of My Bags
Don Thompson A House is Not a Home Circles
Don Thompson Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me Circles
Dal Richards & his Orchestra It Had to be You A Tribute to the Crooners
Dal Richards & his Orchestra As Time Goes By Dal Richards! And Friends
Don Thompson A Country Place Country Place
Ian McDougall English Bay Music by Ian McDougall
Vic Centro Sextet End of a Love Affair ST
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Cheek to Cheek A Tribute to the Crooners
Ian McDougall Then Came September Rio (Ron Johnston, Ian McDougall, Oliver Gannon)
Ian McDougall Embraceable You The Very Thought Of You
Judy Ginn (Walchuk) Feeling Good vocalist, with Doug Parker Orchestra (split with Mary-Lou Collins & Ricky Hyslop Orchestra)
Don Thompson Sasha's Delight Country Place
Don Thompson Windows Circles
Vic Centro Sextet On Green Dolphin Street ST
Pacific Salt North Bluff Stomp ST
Lynne McNeil San Antonio Rose I Did It!...My Way
Dal Richards & his Orchestra 12th Street Rag Swing Is In... Vol. II
Don Thompson One Morning In May Circles
Black Cultured Pearl Am I Blue Pearl
Miles Ramsay & Dave Robbins Big Band Love From CBC Vancouver
Compilation Christine Duncan - Why So Blue Jazz Vancouver
Deep Cove Big Band Everybody Loves My Baby ST
Deep Cove Big Band Moonlight Serenade ST
Bruce Tilden What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life Looking Back
Joani Taylor Harbour Light CBC Comp 417 comp
Doug Parker If Vancouver Big Band
Ian McDougall You Go to My Head Warmth Of The Horn (Ian McDougall Quartet)
Dave Robbins Band Westcoasting (feat. Dave Quarin & Chris Gage) Happy Faces
Dave Robbins Band Howe Sound (Don Clark) ST
Black Cultured Pearl If I Had You Pearl
Mart Kenney Put On A Happy Face Songs of Norma Locke
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Lollipops And Roses A Tribute to the Crooners
Doug Parker The Jubilation Singers - Jewel of the West (Beautiful B.C.) (Folk Version) Jewel of the West (Beautiful B.C.)
Ian McDougall Just a Song Just a Song
Don Thompson Summer Song Circles
Ian McDougall Cliches Music by Ian McDougall
Judy Ginn (Walchuk) I'm Beginning to See The Light vocalist, with Doug Parker Orchestra (split with Mary-Lou Collins & Ricky Hyslop Orchestra)
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Just Say a Prayer Beautiful Canada
Deep Cove Big Band Begin the Beguine ST
Black Cultured Pearl Pennies from Heaven Goin' Down Home
Ian McDougall Fly Away Just a Song
Mart Kenney Victory Parade Medley: I'll Be Seeing You - There Are Such Things - You'll Never Know Songs of Norma Locke
Dal Richards & his Orchestra I Love Being Here With You Dal Richards! And Friends
Deep Cove Big Band The Girl From Ipanema ST
Deep Cove Big Band Witchcraft ST
Fraser MacPherson Killing Me Softly With His Song With The Doug Parker Orchestra (Vancouver flutist)
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Route 66 Dal Richards! And Friends
Mart Kenney In The Shadow Of The Mountains Songs of Norma Locke
Doug Parker Saturday Clothes Vancouver Instrumental
Judy Ginn (Walchuk) Come Back to Me The Songs of Judy Ginn, Orchestra Directed By Doug Parker
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Only Want One Wife Beautiful Canada
Deep Cove Big Band The Sunny Side of the Street ST
Bruce Tilden What Makes a Man a Man Together Ensemble
Dave Robbins Band Reflections (feat. Chris Gage, Wally Snider & Fraser Macpherson) Happy Faces
Judy Ginn (Walchuk) Alfie The Songs of Judy Ginn, Orchestra Directed By Doug Parker
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Black Eyes (Ship of) Amist the Black Eyes
Dixieland Express Jazz Band There's a Lot to See in B.C. There's a Lot to See in B.C. b/w Twelfth St. Rag (picture sleeve)
Bruce Tilden The Nearness of You Looking Back
Compilation Fraser MacPherson Quartet - Blue Prelude Jazz Vancouver
Don Thompson Full Nelson Country Place
Bobby Hales Big Band The Writing's On the Wall (Domenic Troiano) Vancouver Instrumental
Miles Ramsay & Dave Robbins Big Band Don't Get Around Much Anymore From CBC Vancouver
Black Cultured Pearl Try Alittle Tenderness Pearl
Judy Ginn (Walchuk) Meditation vocalist, with Doug Parker Orchestra (split with Mary-Lou Collins & Ricky Hyslop Orchestra)
Fraser MacPherson Easy to be Hard The Sounds of Fraser MacPherson with the Doug Parker Orchestra
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Chicken Song Beautiful Canada
Vic Centro Sextet Midnight Sun ST
Vic Centro Sextet It's Only a Paper Moon ST
Pacific Salt Four Leaf Clover Man Jazz Canadiana
Lynne McNeil Lady Success (Lynne McNeil) I Did It!...My Way
Mark Hasselbach Bodega Bay Perspective: Solar Winds
Black Cultured Pearl World On a String Pearl
Pacific Salt Country Detour Vancouver Instrumental Group
Compilation The Brad Turner Quartet - Nomad Jazz Vancouver
Judy Ginn (Walchuk) Big Spender The Songs of Judy Ginn, Orchestra Directed By Doug Parker
Dave Robbins Band June in Jerusalem (Dave Robbins) ST
Deep Cove Big Band String of Pearls ST
Pacific Salt Patricia Jazz Canadiana
Martin Slavin Sextet Maisquinada ST (split with Charles Coleman Trio)
Ian McDougall A Portrait of Jenny Rio (Ron Johnston, Ian McDougall, Oliver Gannon)
Bobby Hales Big Band Shuffle Scuffle One of My Bags
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Opus One Swing Is In... Vol. II
Dave Robbins Band Here Comes the Sun (George Harrison) ST
Ian McDougall Bossa, Bossa Jo-Jo Just a Song

Compilation

Looking Back

Bruce Tilden

Bruce Tilden - Lookinn Back CD

Bruce Tilden - Lookinn Back INSIDE

Bruce Tilden - Lookinn Back BACK

Bruce Tilden - Lookinn Back INLAY

Together Ensemble

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)

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