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	Length
John Arpin	The Last Time I Saw Her Face	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	03:09
Guido Basso	Winter Wonderland	Christmas Today	02:42
John Arpin	Troubadour Rag (1919)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:16
Moe Koffman	The Swingin' Shepherd Blues	Cool and Hot Sax	03:57
Hagood Hardy	I'll Take Love	Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning) b/w I'll Take Love	02:30
Moe Koffman	Hambourg Bound	Cool and Hot Sax	04:05
John Arpin	Gladiolus Rag (1907)	Other Side Of Ragtime	03:11
Peter Appleyard	Conversation	Toronto Instrumental	02:04
Ben McPeek	Maxwell's Silver Hammer	Thinking of You	02:11
Doug Randle	Song for the Middle Aged	Songs for the New Industrial State	03:06
Ben McPeek	He's So Fine	Peace Train	02:50
Ron Collier Orchestra & Duke Ellington	Silent Night, Lonely Night	Duke Ellington: "North of the Border" in Canada	03:02
Laurie Bower Singers	If You Feel The Way I Do	The Rose And The Rain	02:40
Lucio Agostini	Prairie Boy	Action With Agostini	03:29
Johnny Cowell	(These Are) The Young Years	Our Winter Love	02:24
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Knock Three Times	Do Something Nice Today!	02:32
Jerry Toth	I Am In Love	The Twelve Sides Of	03:24
Bill Badgley	June	Blue-Ribbon Badgley	02:26
Eugene Amaro	Love Theme (Gone With The Wind)	Warm	03:04
Phil Nimmons Group	Blue Lou	Nimmons 'N' Nine	03:28
Rick Wilkins	Summer Song	For the Sake of Music	03:34
Peter Appleyard	Tico Tico	ST	02:25
Jerry Toth	Last Tango In Paris	The Twelve Sides Of	02:38
Paul Zaza	Marina Del Rey	Coasting (with Isaacs)	02:30
Mutual Understanding	When The World Was Young	In Wonderland	03:49
Phil Nimmons Group	Who Walks	Nimmons 'N' Nine	05:16
John Arpin	Cannonball Blues	Concert In Ragtime	02:16
Ed Bickert	A Flower Is A Lonesome Thing	Bye Bye Baby	05:32
Compilation	Carol Welsman - Lucky to be Me	Jazz Toronto	03:55
Compilation	Vanda King - Once & For A Lifetime	1967 CBC Song Market featuring Kiss The Wind	02:12
Tommy Ambrose	Goodbye	Young Tommy Ambrose	03:27
Laurie Bower Singers	How The Singers Sing	Morning Has Broken	03:06
John Arpin	Daniel	Direct to Disc	03:42
Guido Basso	Mia Mia	It's Happening (re-issue)	01:54
Alex Read & His Tin Pan Alley Cats	Dolly Medley (Herman)	From CBC Toronto (split with Pat Riccio Orchestra (LM 09)	03:11
Robert Tennison Troupe	I Can See (Instrumental)	Watch Me Now (Hear Me Now) b/w I Can See (Instrumental)	02:44
Jimmy Namaro	When I Grow Too Old to Dream	With Mallets A 4 Thought	03:31
Rick Wilkins	Jazz Gavotte	From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones)	05:26
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Vera Cruz	ST	02:51
Hagood Hardy & the Montage	Eli's Coming (Laura Nyro)	ST	03:20
Lenny Breau	Hard Day's Night	Guitar Sounds From	04:12
Hagood Hardy	Send in the Clowns	Maybe Tomorrow	03:30
Lucio Agostini	Fiddler's Frolic	Action With Agostini	02:42
Laurie Bower Singers	50 Ways	Got a Feelin' for Love	03:31
Bill Badgley	Sam	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	03:22
Henry Cuesta	Just a Closer Walk with Thee	Clarinet With Strings	02:08
Lucio Agostini	Sulkey Race	Action With Agostini	02:55
Hagood Hardy	Something in Your Smile	Stop 33 Sutton Place	02:44
Jimmy Dale	Guanabara	Soft and Groovy	02:42
Johnny Cowell	Song of Joy	The Virtuoso Trumpet	03:07
Paul Zaza	Autumn Reflections	Images	02:56
Guido Basso	Besame Mucho (Consuelo Velazquez)	Lost in the Stars	05:15
Compilation	Woodland City	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	03:47
Compilation	Hogtown Hoe-Down	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	04:05
Peter Appleyard	There Will Never Be Another You	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:46
Moe Koffman	In the Mood	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:09
Guido Basso	Tour de Force (live) (Dizzy Gillespie)	Lost in the Stars	06:42
Hagood Hardy	Winter Wonderland	The Christmas Album	02:36
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	The Sound of Silver	ST	03:20
Compilation	Teach Me	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	02:37
Peter Appleyard	This Masquerade	ST	03:01
Bill Badgley	Aubrey	Gonna Fly Now: Theme From Rocky	02:34
Guido Basso	Dale be There	And All That Latin Jazz!	02:25
Compilation	Phil Nimmons Quartet - It Ain't Necessarily So	CBC Comp 409	02:49
John Arpin	If You Could Read My Mind	Love and Maple Syrup: John Arpin Plays Lightfoot	02:55
Peter Appleyard	Tenderly	Per-cus-sive Jazz	02:01
Ed Bickert	Manha de Carnaval	ST	09:46
Lucio Agostini	Love and Maple Syrup (Gordon Lightfoot)	Toronto Composer / Arranger	03:16
Paul Zaza	Blue Shadow	Double Phase Guitar (with Ray Isaacs)	03:12
Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six	Twooch	Vintage Nimmons 'N' Nine: CBC Air Checks '59-'64	09:15
Compilation	Brian Hughes - The Bridge	Jazz Toronto	04:58
Hagood Hardy	A Boy Named Charlie Brown	Maybe Tomorrow	03:14
Hagood Hardy	Don't Give up on Us	Tell Me My Name	02:52
Jimmy Dale	Sun Goes By	Toronto Instrumental	03:21
Ben McPeek	Baked Apple Rag	Thinking of You	02:32
Compilation	Herbie Spanier - Dimensions In Blue	Jazz Toronto	06:38
Rick Wilkins	Princess Leia's Theme (From Star Wars)	For the Sake of Music	03:59
Hagood Hardy	Just the Way You Are	Reflections	04:01
Phil Nimmons Group	Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious	Mary Popppins Swings	03:08
Lucio Agostini	Pan Am Young and Old	Once Upon a Hundred Years	03:40
Rick Wilkins	Amarillo	My Heart Belongs to Me	03:21
Brian Browne Trio	Killing Me Softly	Toronto Instrumental	02:20
Guido Basso	Christmas Waltz	Christmas Today	02:10
Paul Zaza	Flutey Fuge	Faces and Places	02:19
Jimmy Dale	Norwegian Wood	Soft and Groovy	03:17
Compilation	Snowmen	Toronto: What Other City Calls its Main Street Yonge?	03:58
Rick Wilkins	Together	My Heart Belongs to Me	02:59
Hagood Hardy	When the First Snow Falls	The Christmas Album	04:15
Tom Sealy Don Palmer Cohoon & Skip Beckwith	Struttin' Your Stuff	Sailin' Home	03:45
Ben McPeek	When I'm 64	Thinking of You	02:45
Teddy Roderman	Beautiful Second Hand Man	Makin' It With You	02:34
Johnny Burt & His Orchestra	Caribbean Moonlight	ST	03:09
Peter Appleyard	Soulful Strut	The Many Moods Of (AKA Polished Appleyard)	02:53
Jimmy Namaro	Despertar	We Gotta Get It All Together	02:10
Compilation	Ben McPeek - Kapuskasing Kaper	Motorcars In Concert 1970	02:57
Moe Koffman	Twist the Hully Gully	Moe Koffman the Swinging Shepherd Plays for Teens	02:08
Eugene Amaro	I'll Follow The Sun	Warm	02:44
Pete Schofield and the Canadians	Goin' Out Of My Head	The Now Sound	03:29
Jimmy Davidson 'Trump'	Wang Wang Blues	Jimmy Trump Davidson and His Dixieland Band with Guest Alexander "Ragtime" Read	02:42
Laurie Bower Singers	It Goes Like It Goes	It Goes Like It Goes	03:40

The Toronto Jazz Scene

Tracks

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Ed Bickert - ST

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Ed Bickert - Bye Bye Baby

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Ed Bickert - I Like To Recognize the Tune

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

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Brian Browne Trio - The Toronto Scene

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Brian Browne Trio - Toronto Instrumental

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

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Yorkville Avenue Band - "Moving Day"

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Ben McPeek - Thinking of You

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Jimmy Namaro - Driftwood

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Jimmy Namaro - We Gotta Get It All Together

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Jimmy Namaro - Marimba, Xylophone and Piano with Orchestra

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Jimmy Namaro - Plays Middle Road Jazz at the Westbury

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Jimmy Namaro - featured on Vibraphone, Marimba, and Piano With his Trio and String Orchestra

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Jimmy Namaro - At the Westbury

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Jimmy Namaro - With Mallets A 4 Thought

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Jimmy Namaro - Y' Gotta Quit Swingin' // We Could Make Such Beautiful Music

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Compilation - Motorcars In Concert 1970

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Guido Basso - One More for the Road

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Guido Basso - Lost in the Stars

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Guido Basso - A Lazy Afternoon (with Doug Riley)

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Guido Basso - And All That Latin Jazz!

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Guido Basso - Jazz Canadiana: All Star Jazz In Concert

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Guido Basso - Love Talk

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Guido Basso - Put Your Hand in the Hand

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Guido Basso - It's Happening (re-issue)

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Guido Basso - Christmas Today

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Guido Basso - It's Happening

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Rick Wilkins - Discovery

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Doug Randle - Songs for the New Industrial State

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