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
Dino Pacifici Jamaican Night Become a Man
Lenny Breau Music to Watch Girls By Guitar Sounds From
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Mas Que Nada-Tristeza The Best Damn Band in the Land!!
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra The Way You Look Tonight Trombone - Teddy Roderman
Boogus Cow Cow Boogie CBC Comp 403 comp
Lorne Lofsky Body and Soul It Could Happen To You
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Time is of the Essence Invisible Roots
Don Baker Humoresque At the Paramount Theatre Organ
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Samba Strut (Rick Wilkins) The Sound of the Boss Brass
Compilation Captain Bob Farnon's Canadian String & Swing Band - Baia & Closing (London, January, 1946) Swing Canada Volume 3 Canadian Service Bands of WW II
Karen Marklinger Saturday Clothes Colours of the Rainbow
Shirley Eikhard If We Had Never Met The Jazz Sessions
Ben McPeek Gymnopedie (Erik's Theme) Ben McPeek's Latest Fling at the Record Scene
Alex Read & His Tin Pan Alley Cats Nellie Medley (Wait 'Til the Sun Shines Nellie - Wore a Tulip - Old Grey Bonnet - I Want a Gal) (arr. Read) From CBC Toronto (split with Pat Riccio Orchestra (LM 09)
Compilation Edwards & Devilliers - Benz Ride CBC Comp 405
Guy Lombardo Anniversary Song Enjoy Yourself!
Eric Benson Makes No Difference Close the Door
Karen Marklinger The Man They Call Rainbow Colours of the Rainbow
Marla Guloien I Ain't Going Back Bad Ass Woman
Andi Bauer & his Orchestra Your Heart Will Go Another Way It's Marvelous
Ranee Lee Med-Lee: It Don't Mean a Thing - On the Street Where You Live - Just in Time - All of Me - Take The 'A' Train Live At Le Bijou
Sheila Graham Last Night When We Were Young Sheila Graham Sings
Big Rude Jake Let's Kill All the Rock Stars ST
Black Cultured Pearl Don't Get Around Much Anymore Pearl
Dave Turner Quartet You Stepped Out of a Dream The Pulse Brothers
Roger Gravel Salut mon frère ST
Dolores Claman Happy Whistler Canadisc Library: 8 Big Themes
Neil Chotem Tu ne comprendras donc jamais Themes and Melodies Volume 2
Vic Franklyn (Lyn Evans) Always Wear Your Love For Me After All Is Said and Done
Lee Gagnon Con Alma Discotheque
2B3 Denis Keldie, Richard Bell - King Harvest The Toronto Sessions
Peter Appleyard A Face Like Yours Peter Appleyard Presents
Strings Unlimited Ecstasy The New Sound of
Deep Cove Big Band Sudden Sam ST
Johnny Holmes Orchestra The Call (Gene MacLellan) 17-piece Montreal Orchestra
Shirley Eikhard Desperately The Jazz Sessions
Aaron Davis The Giant Nouvelle Afrique
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass La Mer Trombone Rob
Demo Cates My Sunshine Thirteen Shades of Soul
Guido Basso Sweet Georgia Fame A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)
Vic Franklyn (Lyn Evans) You and Me Against the World After All Is Said and Done
John Perrone Chitarra Romana Theme from Forbidden Games
Betty Robertson Stormy Weather Songs of Betty Robertson
Al Michalek Quartet Ebony Voices
Gerry Hoelke Friday Night Daughter of Darkness
Neil Chotem Satin Doll Neil Chotem Orchestra
Tommy Banks Band One O'Clock Jump For Dancers Only
Al Harris Night & Day Ampersand
Pete Schofield & the Canadians with Tammy Rafferty Killing Me Softly (With His Song) Do Something Nice Today!
Bobby Edwards with the Shufflebabies Ostrich Strut Featuring Eugene Amaro and Bill Richards
Geraldine Hunt Autumn Leaves Soultry, Jazzy And Sexy (featuring Freddie James & Rosalind AKA Cheri)
Bobby Hales Big Band Minor Event: Alto Sax Solo One of My Bags
Peter Appleyard There Will Never Be Another You Per-cus-sive Jazz
Pacific Salt Patricia Jazz Canadiana
Compilation Weeley Wright - Blubber Bay Boogie Songs of British Columbia
Jack Grunsky Touch the Earth Façade
Dal Richards & his Orchestra Santa Dear Santa Beautiful Canada
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Think I Care The Best Damn Band in the Land!!
Gerry Hoelke Goin' Down Home Daughter of Darkness
Johnny Cowell Concerto For Trumpet And Orchestra In D Major- Mvmt 1 Adagio The Art Of Johnny Cowell: Virtuoso Trumpet Gems
Barry Townley Trio Conversation Piece On the Town
Doug Parker Doug Parker Big Band - Broadway Parker, Doug Big Band (split with Al Harris Ensemble)
Compilation Les Jérolas - Le carnaval de Montréal Montréal: Un Portrait Musical
Bert Niosi with Johnny Burt Strings Two Shadows On The Sand ST
Ricky Brown Chant du ruisseau Passion
Hagood Hardy Tell Me My Name (Sarah's Theme) Tell Me My Name
Al Harris Spanish Eyes Ampersand
Mart Kenney Danube Waves Classics
Tommy Banks Orchestra I'll Never Fall in Love Again Where You Gonna Put Your Head
Bobby Hales Big Band Funklickity Vancouver Instrumental
Marius Cultier Sunny À la Place des Arts
Gentle Touch (2) Summer Samba Ampersand
Laurie Bower Singers Tell No Lies You
Boogus Take Your Clothes Off CBC Comp 403 comp
Demo Cates Next to Me Thirteen Shades of Soul
Jimmy Namaro Morrocco At the Westbury
Compilation Brian Hughes - The Bridge Jazz Toronto
TCB First Grade Reader Open for Business
Bill Butler Theme from Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1 Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler
Ralph Fraser & Pat L'Heureux I Will Wait For You The Two Piano Team of
Jack Grunsky Lummus Park Miami in Mind
Peter Appleyard You've Got Your Troubles The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)
Lucio Agostini Little Chinook (Fred Diehl) Toronto Composer / Arranger
Compilation Bobby Edwards - Embraceable You CBC Comp 436
Allan Wellman Doodles Blues Me and My Trumpet
Maynard Ferguson Georgia on My Mind Maynard Ferguson and His Orchestra (live at the Expo '67 Canadian Pavillion Theatre)
Compilation The Melody Kings And Willie Eckstein - Music (Makes The World Go Round) (1923) Jazz and Hot Dance in Canada: 1916-1949
Jodie Drake (Priscilla Royster) What's New I'm a Woman
Art Hallman and His Orchestra Benny's Bugle Turn Back the Pages of Time
Compilation Fred Napoli - On And On Pieces of Dreams
Dave Turner Quartet Star Eyes The Pulse Brothers
Norman Amadio Trio Nica's Dream ST
1001 EST Crémazie Le picbois ST
Judy Ginn (Walchuk) What Did I Have The Songs of Judy Ginn, Orchestra Directed By Doug Parker
Portia White Les berceaux (The Cradles) First You Dream
Laurie Bower Singers Take The Long Way Home When You Say Goodbye
Horn Pony Buns On the People's Side
Oscar Peterson Sometimes When We Touch (Barry Mann, Dan Hill) The Personal Touch
Lenny Breau Ebony Queen - Pam's Pad Mo' Breau
Paul Bley Ramblin' Blood

Weeley Wright - Songs of British Columbia LABEL 02

Weeley Wright - Songs of British Columbia LABEL 01

Songs of British Columbia

One Minuters

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

45-Diane Miller - Baby, That's the Way It Goes VINYL 02

Shirley Lewis Show Band

Granger, Shirley (Shirley Fay, Shirley Lewis)*

Granger, Shirley (Shirley Lewis)*

Granger, Shirley (Shirley Lewis)*

Granger, Shirley (Shirley Lewis)*

The Ones Ahead

Glenn-Copeland, Beverly

ST

Bye Bye Baby

I Like To Recognize the Tune

The Dreamer/ Windows (split with Michael Renzi)

Bickert, Ed

Introducing...

Bostic, Cal*

The Toronto Scene

Brian Browne Trio-The Toronto Scene BACK

Toronto Instrumental

The Brian Browne Trio (split with The Doug Randle Orchestra)

Listen, People!

Browne, Brian Trio

Brian Browne Trio-The Toronto Scene LABEL 02

Brian Browne Trio-The Toronto Scene LABEL 01

Cal Bostic - Introducing...

Bostic, Cal - Introducing

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