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Paul (Horace) Plimley (Born: 16 March 1953 – Died: 18 May 2022) was a Canadian free jazz pianist and vibraphonist. He was 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.

ALBUMS


John Oswald, Henry Kaiser, Paul Plimley With Scott Amendola, Tracy Silverman
At One Time (Improvisations For Cecil Taylor)
2021, CD, Metalanguage, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Tommy Babin / Kenton Loewen / Paul Plimley
Artful Dodgers
2019, CD, Album, Waterlou Records
Ellwood Epps, Paul Plimley, Dylan Van Der Schyff
Plaiting Traces
2019
Anthony Davis (2), Paul Plimley, Al Neil, John Kameel Farah
Past Piano Present / Live at Western Front 1985 - 2015
2016, LP, Western Front New Music
Paul Plimley, Barry Guy, Lucas Niggli
Hexentrio
2012, CD, Album, Intakt Records
Henry Kaiser, Paul Plimley, Weasel Walter, Lukas Ligeti
The Starbreak Splatterlight
2012, CD, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Jazz-Rock
Mei Han - Paul Plimley
Ume
2006, CD, Album, ZA Discs, ZA Discs
Paul Plimley / John Oswald ● Marilyn Crispell ● Cecil Taylor
Complicité
2001, 3xCD, Album, Les Disques Victo, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Henry Kaiser & Paul Plimley With Danielle DeGruttola
Passwords
1999, CD, Album, Spool, ,
Free Improvisation
Paul Plimley & Trichy Sankaran
Ivory Ganesh Meets Doctor Drums
1998, CD, Album, Songlines Recordings
Paul Plimley • Barry Guy
Sensology
1997, CD, Album, Maya Recordings, Maya Recordings
Paul Plimley
Everything In Stages
1996, CD, Album, Enh, Songlines Recordings, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Joe McPhee / Lisle Ellis / Paul Plimley
Sweet Freedom - Now What?
1995
Paul Plimley & Lisle Ellis
Kaleidoscopes
1993, CD, Album, Hat Art, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Paul Plimley / Lisle Ellis / Gregg Bendian
Noir
1993
Plimley* / Ellis* / Cyrille*
When Silence Pulls
1991, CD, Album, Music & Arts
Paul Plimley Trio
Safe-Crackers
1999, CD, Album, Les Disques Victo
Paul Plimley Trio
Density Of The Lovestruck Demons
1995, CD, Album, Music & Arts, Music & Arts
Dennis Gonzalez Band Of Sorcerers
Hymn For The Perfect Heart Of A Pearl
1991, CD, Album, Konnex Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz
The Paul Plimley/Lisle Ellis Duo
Both Sides Of The Same Mirror
1990, CD, Album, Nine Winds Records
Cecil Taylor Workshop Ensemble
Legba Crossing
1989, CD, Album, FMP
Paul Plimley Trio
Swinging Planets
1988, Cass, Album, Not On Label, ,
Free Jazz
Paul Plimley Octet
Hidden Shades
1985, Cass, Album, Not On Label

APPEARANCES +


Paul Plimley
Paul Plimley
2022, 18xFile, FLAC, Album, fony,
Post-Modern/Sound Collage/Free Jazz
Gunter Christmann*
Close Together
2018, 4xFile, FLAC, Condition West Recordings
Viviane Houle
Treize
2009, CD, Album, Drip Audio
Gregg Simpson
Drum Fire
2005, CDr, Album, Condition West Recordings
Various
Amalgam(e)
2004, 2xCD, Comp, Red Toucan Records
Plunderphonics*
69 Plunderphonics 96
2001, 2xCD, Comp + Box, Seeland, fony, ,
Musique Concrète/Post-Modern/Sound Collage/Experimental/Plunderphonics
Various
Musicworks 79: Ongoing Explorations In Sound
2001, CD, Album, Comp, Musicworks
George Lewis / The NOW Orchestra*
The Shadowgraph Series: Compositions For Creative Orchestra
2001, CD, Album, Spool
George Lewis
Endless Shout
2000, CD, Album, Tzadik, ,
Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz/Experimental
Glenn Spearman
Free Worlds
2000
The NOW Orchestra*
Wowow
1999, CD, Album, Spool
Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith
Yo Miles!
1998, 2xHDCD, Album, Shanachie
Rosco Blur
Stable Chaos
1997, CD, Album, Red Toucan Records
René Lussier & NOW Orchestra
Le Tour Du Bloc
1996, CD, Album, Les Disques Victo
Philippe Micol
New York Interviews
1996, CD, Album, Unit Records (2), ,
Free Improvisation
What We Live / Lisle Ellis
What We Live Fo(u)r
1996, CD, Album, Black Saint
Various
The Songlines Anthology
1996, CD, Comp, Songlines Recordings,
Barry Guy And The NOW Orchestra*
Study - Witch Gong Game II/10
1994, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
New Orchestra Workshop*
NOW You Hear It
1992, CD, Album, Nine Winds Records
Various
CMCD (Six Classic Concrete, Electroacoustic And Electronic Works: 1970-1990)
1991, CD, ,
Abstract/Musique Concrète/Experimental
Various
Dix Improvisations - Victoriaville 1989
1990, CD, Les Disques Victo, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
New Orchestra Workshop*
The Future Is N.O.W.
1990, CD, Album, Nine Winds Records
Cecil Taylor
In Berlin '88
1989, 10xCD, Album, Ltd + Box, FMP, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Various
Rē Records Quarterly Vol. 2 No. 1
1987, LP, Rē Records, ,
Avantgarde/Experimental
Paul Cram
Blue Tales In Time
1981, LP, Album, Onari
New Orchestra Quintet
Up 'Til Now
1979
Bob Bell
Necropolis
1978
Walter Zuber Armstrong
High Places
1977, LP, Album, World Artists, World Artists
Various
The Taurus Incident - Incidental Music
2005, CD, Comp, Titan Sound
Gamelan Madu Sari
New Nectar
2004, CD, Album, Songlines Recordings