The Toronto Jazz Scene

The Toronto Jazz Scene

A city of clubs, sessions, and serious chops—Toronto has long been the beating heart of Canadian jazz. This collection pays tribute to the players, composers, and innovators who shaped its sound: from smoky post-war lounges to modern downtown lofts, from straight-ahead swingers to boundary-pushing experimentalists. Featuring legends, sidemen, and new voices alike, The Toronto Jazz Scene captures the energy, elegance, and evolution of one of North America’s most vital jazz communities.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Hagood Hardy Love of Life Tell Me My Name
Lucio Agostini Hoedown Action With Agostini
Henry Cuesta Am I in Love? Clarinet With Strings
Peter Appleyard What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? The Lincolnshire Poacher
Bill Badgley Tiny Bubbles At the Ports of Call
Compilation Indian Summer City Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?
Compilation Peter Appleyard - Soulful Strut Motorcars In Concert 1970
The Brian Browne Trio Waltzing Matilda The Toronto Scene
Yorkville Avenue Band Takin' Me Through the Night "Moving Day"
The Laurie Bower Singers Mississippi Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....
Johnny Cowell You Made Me Love You (Harry James) The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Johnny Cowell Playful Trumpets The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Paul Zaza The Magic Island Images
Joyce Sullivan Friendly Star The Songs of Joyce Sullivan
Guido Basso Sweet Georgia Fame A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)
Jimmy Namaro Balikpapan Driftwood
Rick Wilkins Junk My Heart Belongs to Me
Peter Appleyard Mambo Inn Per-cus-sive Jazz
The Laurie Bower Singers Fool That I Am It Goes Like It Goes
Moe Koffman Doxy The Shepherd Swings Again
Rick Wilkins Without Your Love Discovery
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Lip Flap (For Fred) Now!
Compilation Phil Nimmons Quartet - There is No Greater Love CBC Comp 409
Paul Zaza Mimosa Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)
Compilation Ted Komar - Papirossew CBC Comp 409
Ben McPeek Ramblin' Rose The Original Sounds of
Ed Bickert Nobody Else But Me Bye Bye Baby
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out + Horn = Dixie
Doug Riley Theme for Adele Freedom
Bill Badgley If You Leave Me Now Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky
The Laurie Bower Singers Too Much Is On The Line When You Say Goodbye
The Laurie Bower Singers You Never Done It Like That You
The Laurie Bower Singers Do You Think I'd Call It Love When You Say Goodbye
Doug Randle Love is Just Around the Corner (Elan Stuart, vocalist) Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists
2B3 Denis Keldie, Bill Payne - Life is a Carnival The Toronto Sessions
Jimmy Namaro This is My Song Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra
Ivy Steel Now or Never Reincarnation
Pat Riccio Stranger on the Shore (Bilk-Mellin) From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)
Compilation Tommy Ambrose - Annie Is Back 1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind
Lucio Agostini Gazpacho Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass
Bill Butler Violets for Your Furs The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler
Ben McPeek A Taste of Honey His Voices and His Orchestra
Jimmy Namaro Yesterdays At the Westbury
Rick Wilkins Why Think About Tomorrow From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)
Johnny Cowell Just One More Time His Girl
The Laurie Bower Singers Theme from Ice Castles - Through the Eyes of Love Laurie Bower
Lucio Agostini Caprice Canadien Action With Agostini
Carol McCartney You Don't Know What Love Is A Night in Tunisia
Doug Randle The Doug Randle Orchestra - Bauble Bangles And Beads Tommy Common, vocalist (Split with The Brian Browne Trio)
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' Storyville Blues + Horn = Dixie
Moe Koffman Exodus Tales of Koffman
The Brian Browne Trio The Brian Browne Trio - Bluesette The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)
Hagood Hardy Don't You Think it's Time to Come Back Home Tell Me My Name
Jimmy Namaro Anna Maria Waltz featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra
The Laurie Bower Singers Brand New Key Morning Has Broken
Eugene Amaro In My Life (You Belong) Twilight Time
Teddy Roderman Measure The Valleys Makin' It With You
Peter Appleyard China Boy (To Sleep) The Vibraphone Of
Jimmy Namaro Lamento Marimba Driftwood
Doug Randle One Way Swimming Songs for the New Industrial State
Jimmy Namaro Up a Lazy River We Gotta Get It All Together
Peter Appleyard Liza The Vibe Sound Of
Doug Riley Freedom Freedom
Johnny Cowell Blood of the Brave Bull The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Doug Randle Put On Your Sunday Clothes Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists
Johnny Cowell Satchmo (Louis Armstrong) The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Yorkville Avenue Band All of You "Moving Day"
Lucio Agostini Pastorale Once Upon a Hundred Years
Jerry Toth Theme From "Search" The Twelve Sides Of
Johnny Cowell Presto From Vivaldi's Concerto In A Major (Maurice Andre) The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Paul Zaza Blue Lagoon Images
Lenny Breau I Remember Hank Mo' Breau
Ben McPeek Undun Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene
Pete Schofield and the Canadians 007 Medley (Dr. No, Goldfinger) The Old Meets the New
Moe Koffman Song for My Father Turned on
Bill Butler I'll Remember April The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler
Rick Wilkins The Very Thought of You From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)
Lenny Breau A Taste of Honey The Velvet Touch Of Lenny Breau-Live!
Moe Koffman Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) Goes Electric
Ben McPeek Concerto for Toy Piano Thinking of You
Compilation Ben McPeek - For Lovin' Me Motorcars In Concert 1970
Paul Zaza Foxy Lady Coasting (with Isaacs)
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Lush Life Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64
Johnny Cowell Sweet and Sour Chop Chop Hot Brass
Lucio Agostini Canadians on the Go-Go Once Upon a Hundred Years
Moe Koffman What Can You Do The Shepherd Swings Again
John Arpin If You Could Read My Mind Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot
Ben McPeek Only God Knows Only God Knows b/w Keyboard Grease
Guido Basso Besame Mucho (Consuelo Velazquez) Lost in the Stars
Hagood Hardy & the Montage Travelling Down to Make it Town (Doug Riley) ST
Johnny Cowell Stawberry Jam His Girl
Lucio Agostini Chuck Wagon Race Once Upon a Hundred Years
Rick Wilkins Together My Heart Belongs to Me
Johnny Cowell Concerto For Trumpet And Orchestra In D Major- Mvmt 2 Allegro The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Ben McPeek Get Out of Town His Voices and His Orchestra
Peter Appleyard Telephone Song The Lincolnshire Poacher
Jimmy Dale The Lamp Is Low Profiles
Doug Riley Child Eyes Freedom
Moe Koffman Pretzel Twist Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens
The Laurie Bower Singers Is Someone Listening? Morning Has Broken

Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning) b/w I'll Take Love

It's Gotta Be Love

Johnny Cowell / It's Gotta Be Love LABELS

Johnny Cowell - It's Gotta Be Love MINT BACK

Night's Disgrace

Yellow Fever

Terry Watada / Night's Disgrace LABELS 02

Terry Watada / Night's Disgrace LABELS 01

Terry Watada / Night's Disgrace INLAY

Terry Watada / Night's Disgrace BACK

Terry Watada / Yellow Fever LABELS

Terry Watada / Yellow Fever BACK

The Vibraphone Of

Peter Appleyard / The Vibraphone Of LABELS

Peter Appleyard / The Vibraphone Of BACK

Peter Appleyard Presents

Toronto Instrumental

The Lincolnshire Poacher

The Vibe Sound Of

Per-cus-sive Jazz

ST

The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)

Doug Riley Transcription

Doug Riley

Freedom

Doug Riley Transcription BACK

Compilation

My Heart Belongs to Me

Girls I Knew

Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By

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