Toronto Jazz

Directed by Don Owen · Starring Don Francks, Lenny Breau, Don Thompson, Alf Jones · 1964

A smoky black-and-white portrait of Toronto's early-1960s jazz scene, with performances and interviews from the Lenny Breau Trio, the Don Thompson Quintet and the Alf Jones Quartet.

A rare, atmospheric time capsule of a once-thriving jazz city, with superb live playing.

Travel back in time to the mid-century Toronto jazz scene in this short documentary. What was then the third-largest jazz centre in North America is profiled in beautiful, smoky black-and-white. The nightclubs, the music

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