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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1953-03-16
- Active to
- 2022-05-18
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Paul (Horace) Plimley (born 16 March 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a free jazz pianist and vibraphonist. He is one of the doyens of the Canadian jazz avant-garde, a co-founder of the New Orchestra Workshop Society and frequent collaborator with the bassist Lisle Ellis. He is well versed in classical music and in all styles of jazz; he was one of the first and most convincing interpreters of Ornette Coleman's music on the piano (an instrument usually seen as antithetical to Coleman's mu
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Vancouver
- Place of death
- Vancouver
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- vibraphone
- Official website
- paulplimley.com
- Image
- PaulPlimley.jpg
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- 1953-03-16
- date of death
- 2022-05-18
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- Paul Plimley
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