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
Jimmy Namaro Despertar We Gotta Get It All Together
Denny Vaughan Happy Days Are Here Again Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By
Lucio Agostini Coastin' Action With Agostini
Henry Cuesta Fate Clarinet With Strings
Jimmy Namaro He-Wat’s Happening? (What’s Happening) Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury
Moe Koffman Goin' Out of My Head Turned on
Hagood Hardy & the Montage Once I Loved (Gilbert/Jobim/DeMoraes) ST
Hagood Hardy Don't You Think it's Time to Come Back Home Tell Me My Name
Compilation Jerry Toth - It's a Great Life Motorcars In Concert 1970
Compilation Rhonda Silver - I Saw It Happen 1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind
Jimmy Namaro Yesterdays At the Westbury
Paul Zaza Sun Ranch Coasting (with Isaacs)
Sanderlings Love One Another (Trevor Jones) With The Jim Pirie Orchestra
The Laurie Bower Singers Una Paloma Got a Feelin' for Love
Denny Vaughan Windy Girls I Knew
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra Song of the Tropics ST
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six One Long Song Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump' Maxwell’s Silver Hammer Original Toronto Dixieland Band
Alex Read & His Tin Pan Alley Cats Waltz Medley (Bicycle Built for Two - Sidewalks of New York - Take Me Out to the Ball Game) (arr. Read) From CBC Toronto (split with Pat Riccio Orchestra (LM 09)
Lucio Agostini Dundurn Castle Once Upon a Hundred Years
Jimmy Dale If Toronto Instrumental
Jimmy Dale The Lamp Is Low Profiles
Guido Basso Two Bass Hit Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert
Guido Basso Polka Dots & Moonbeams A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)
Bill Badgley Wednesday's Child Blue-Ribbon Badgley
John Arpin If You Could Read My Mind Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot
Bill Badgley June At the Ports of Call
Lucio Agostini Pan Am Young and Old Once Upon a Hundred Years
John Arpin King Porter Stomp Concert In Ragtime
Paul Zaza Guitarra Espana Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)
The Mutual Understanding Pretty People In Wonderland
Henry Cuesta Way Down Deep Plays Favourites
Electronic Ensemble (Ben McPeek) Peter & The Wolf Peter & The Wolf b/w Monkey Music
Vic Centro Sextet Moonlight Serenade ST
Doug Randle Put On Your Sunday Clothes Elan Stuart & Doug Crosley, vocalists
Wally Koster Alone Together The Songs of Wally Koster
Guido Basso Take the 'A' Train And All That Latin Jazz!
Joyce Sullivan Bill The Songs of Joyce Sullivan
Peter Appleyard The Man That Got Away Per-cus-sive Jazz
John Arpin Troubadour Rag (1919) Other Side Of Ragtime
Peter Appleyard Mambo Inn Per-cus-sive Jazz
Claman Richard Morris & Jerry Toth St. Lawrence Centre Song St. Lawrence Centre Song
Ed Bickert Skating in Central Park Out of the Past
Moe Koffman Flute Salad The Shepherd Swings Again
Johnny Cowell Ruby Begonia Hot Brass
Hagood Hardy The Homecoming The Homecoming
Lucio Agostini Watch What Happens Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass
The Laurie Bower Singers Pretty Lady Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....
Hagood Hardy Send in the Clowns Maybe Tomorrow
Doug Randle Warm in the Sunshine Songs for the New Industrial State
Kathryn Moses Oleo ST
Lucio Agostini St. Thomas Cold Shoulder and Hot Brass
Pete Schofield and the Canadians King of the Road The Old Meets the New
Doug Wilson Quartet Canada Canada b/w Canadian Theme
Pat Riccio In To Miami (Barry) From CBC Toronto (split with Alexander Read and His Tin Pan Alley Cats (LM 08)
Phil Nimmons Group Nimmons 'N' Nine - Room at the Back Strictly Nimmons
Ron Collier Tentet Lee's Lament ST
Ben McPeek One Less Bell To Answer Peace Train
Bill Butler I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You The Piano Stylings of Bill Butler
Doug Crosley Sing a Happy Song (Babs Babineau, vocals) Toronto Souvenir: The Colourful Music of Helen Laird (with Babs Babineau and Pat Riccio)
Moe Koffman Tangerine (Bossa Nova) Tales of Koffman
Jimmy Namaro Love With Mallets A 4 Thought
Ron Collier Tentet Come Sunday ST
Ed Bickert It’s Time Bye Bye Baby
Hagood Hardy Rain, Rain Stop 33 Sutton Place
Phil Nimmons Group Jasper Take 10
Eugene Amaro I Didn't Know What Time It Was Warm
Peter Appleyard The P.E.I. Polka The Lincolnshire Poacher
John Arpin Cabaret Direct to Disc
Denny Vaughan Three For Two A Little Bit of "Country" and a Little Bit of "Pop"
Henry Cuesta Rose Garden Plays Favourites
Johnny Cowell El Condor Pasa The Tender Loving Care
Lucio Agostini Jesusita en Chihuahua (Cactus Polka) Mucho Lucio: Latin American Music Arranged And Conducted by Lucio Agostini
Johnny Cowell I Have the Pleasure Hot Brass
Jimmy Namaro Nothing in This World (Compares With You) With Mallets A 4 Thought
Jimmy Namaro This Could be the Start of Something Big Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury
Carol McCartney You Don't Know What Love Is A Night in Tunisia
Peter Appleyard Puff the Magic Dragon The Vibraphone Of
The Laurie Bower Singers Think Look What They've Done to These Songs, Ma.....
Moe Koffman Shimmy Twist Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens
John Arpin Ragtime Nightingale Concert In Ragtime
Denny Vaughan Lucky Day (This Is My Lucky Day) Music To Help Disc Jockeys Get People Out Of Bed By
Ron Collier Tentet I Feel Pretty ST
Peter Appleyard There Will Never Be Another You Per-cus-sive Jazz
Moe Koffman Doxy The Shepherd Swings Again
Ben McPeek Both Sides Now Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene
2B3 Bill Payne, Rob Gusevs - Hip Hug-her The Toronto Sessions
Lucio Agostini Sunwheel Dance (Bruce Cockburn) Toronto Composer / Arranger
Lucio Agostini Up, Up and a Bull Once Upon a Hundred Years
Swing Sisters Girl Talk Davenport Blues
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six Hey Jude (Lennon-McCartney) Now!
Johnny Cowell Satchmo (Louis Armstrong) The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Compilation Billy Van - Kiss The Wind 1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind
Jimmy Namaro Venezuela With Mallets A 4 Thought
Rick Wilkins Discovery Discovery
John Arpin Efficiency Rag Concert In Ragtime
Moe Koffman Cantelope Island Moe's Curried Soul
Hagood Hardy Travellin' On The Homecoming
Jimmy Namaro Nightingale We Gotta Get It All Together
Peter Appleyard Cinderella Rockefeller The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)

The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

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Out of the Past

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Jimmy Namaro - We Gotta Get it all Together LABEL 02

Jimmy Namaro - We Gotta Get it all Together LABEL 01

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We Gotta Get It All Together

One Bright Morning

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Tony Quarrington

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

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Terry Watada / Night's Disgrace LABELS 01

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Terry Watada / Yellow Fever LABELS

Terry Watada / Yellow Fever BACK

The Vibraphone Of

Peter Appleyard / The Vibraphone Of LABELS

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