Phil Minton

British jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter (born 1940)

Born: 2 November 1940
Torquay
Country: United Kingdom
Active: 1969–
Record labels: Emanem Records

Biography

Phil Minton is a jazz musician who plays trumpet and voice. Phil Minton was born on 2 November 1940 in Torquay. The music is usually filed under jazz and free jazz. Record labels: Emanem Records.

Phil Minton (born 2 November 1940) is a British avant-garde jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter. Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake with his own ensemble. He sings on a Jimi Hendrix tribute album, belting out the lyrics in over-the-top fashion. Between 1987 and 1993 Minton toured Europe, North America, and Russia with Lindsay Cooper's Oh Moscow ensemble. He is perhaps best known, however, for his completely free-form work, which involves "extended techniques" that can be as unsettling as they can be mesmerising.

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