Paul Plimley was very proud of the 2019 Artful Dodgers CD, because he not only played the piano and vibraphone, he was also the recording engineer.
As the producer, mastering engineer and cover designer, I remain pleased with the packaging and the sound. I thought the CD should be entered in the Juno awards and Paul agreed.
Later, I asked him if he applied to be considered. He told me that the application asked for mp3 copies of the music and he did not think his music could be properly heard in that lossy format. I had to agree with him.
Paul had laser focus on the sound and was not willing to compromise. Despite the lack of promotion and awards, there is a review I had not seen before that I linked to below.
The CD can be ordered or downloaded from Bandcamp https://paulplimley.bandcamp.com/album/artful-dodgers
Music by Paul Plimley is available on other Bandcamp sites:
https://conditionwestrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/first-meeting
This download is a recording of Paul with Robert Leriche made available by Gregg Simpson. A cassette tape recording of this duo has surfaced and will be added to the SFU Archive digitization project. I have no idea if it is new material or the same as this download.
There is a lot more recordings from Paul’s earlier years on Gregg’s site. Once the digitization of the hundreds of hours of recordings in the Paul Plimley Archive is complete, we will be able to listen to a lot more of his music.
This post is by Victoria Gibson, Executor of the Estate of Paul Plimley and creator of this website tribute to the maestro.
Tributes to Paul Plimley on this site