# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-plimley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:02:52.471Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-plimley"
name: "Paul Plimley"
slug: "paul-plimley"
description: "Paul Horace Plimley was a 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. He was 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."
tagline: "Canadian musician (1953–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PaulPlimley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1953-03-16"
deathDate: "2022-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.669618666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4232577/"
    handle:    "nm4232577"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://paulplimley.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بول بليملى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Plimley"
    title: "Paul Plimley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Plimley"
    title: "Paul Plimley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Plimley"
    title: "Paul Plimley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Plimley"
    title: "Paul Plimley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/85bac6bb-7304-421c-a01e-69f72e2fabe5"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2623116"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5909986"
    title: "Paul Plimley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump