Paul Plimley
Paul Horace Plimley ( born March 16, 1953 in Vancouver ) is a Canadian pianist, vibraphonist and composer of free jazz and new music improvisation. He is one of the protagonists of free jazz in Canada in the late 1970s.
Life and work
Paul Plimley is one of the veterans of the Canadian free jazz and avant-garde jazz scene. He studied from 1971 to 1973 classical piano at Kum -Sing Lee at the University of British Columbia. 1978/1979 he studied with Karl Berger and Cecil Taylor at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY. In 1977 he founded the New Orchestra Workshop and played with several formations in the vicinity of this ensemble, such as the NOW Orchestra. For a long time he worked with bassist Lisle Ellis, as in the duo album Both Sides of the Same Mirror ( Nine Winds, 1989). He also played a two albums for Hat Attraction; in " Kaleidoscopes " (1992) he interpreted the work of Ornette Coleman. The ( under the nominal leadership of Joe McPhee rehearsed ) album titled Sweet Freedom, Now What? (1994 ) is a remake of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite. He also worked on recordings by George Lewis, Barry Guy, Wadada Leo Smith, Glenn Spearman, Cecil Taylor and the formation What We Live. With Barry Guy and Lucas Niggli he plays for a debut at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival 2010 in the witch trio.
Plimley one of the rare artists from Ornette Coleman's music on the piano, an instrument which is otherwise antithetical to Coleman's music. His piano playing is influenced by Richard Cook and Brian Morton of Cecil Taylor and Don Pullen.