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Howard Riley
British musician
browse: composers, pianists, jazz musicians
dead
- born
- 1943
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 81
- known for
- composer, pianist, jazz musician
1943 – 2025

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who howard riley is
John Howard Riley was an English pianist and composer who worked in the jazz and experimental music idioms.
where this comes from
wikidata records a date of death for Howard Riley in 2025, which is how we know. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so it’s current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.
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