Phil Minton

Avant-garde vocalist Phil Minton includes a huge vocabulary of voices and extended vocal methods and a thorough discography cataloguing his many tasks from 1969 on. Delivered close to the Southern coastline of Britain in 1940, he began for the trumpet and started playing in jazz rings in the past due ’50s. After shifting to London in the middle-’60s, Minton started doubling as trumpeter/vocalist for the Mike Westbrook Orchestra, after that resided in the Canary Islands to get a season, and in Sweden for five before time for London (and Westbrook’s music group) in the first ’70s. The middle-’70s discovered him employed in a number of configurations, from improvised duos to theatre groupings, and in his vocal trio Tone of voice with Julie Tippetts and Maggie Nicols. As an improviser, Minton provides toured across the world, working with a great number of creative music artists, including Peter Brötzmann, Fred Frith, John Butcher, Derek Bailey’s Business, and a continuing cooperation with Veryan Weston. Furthermore to Tone of voice, he is at another trio through the ’90s known as Axon (with Marcio Mattos & Martin Blume, which documented for another collaborator Georg Graewe’s label Random Acoustics), led the Phil Minton Quartet, and was an associate from the quartet Roof.