Clarinet-playing bandleader Phil Nimmons was the dean of Canadian jazz

He had a deep commitment to education and was a founding instructor at the ambitious but short-lived Advanced School of Contemporary Music in Toronto, along with pianist Oscar Peterson and bassist Ray Brown

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