Phil Minton is a British vocalist and trumpeter, born 2 November 1940 in Torquay, Devon. He started out as a jazz trumpeter in the late 1950s and sang with the Mike Westbrook Orchestra from the early 1960s, but it is as a vocal improviser that he has made his deepest mark - deploying a range that runs from whispers and gurgles to full-throated screams, treating the voice as raw sonic material rather than a melodic tool. Since the 1970s he has collaborated with most of the key figures in European free improvisation, including Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann and Veryan Weston, and since the 1980s he has also led the Feral Choir, a vocal workshop project for non-singers that has performed in over twenty countries.
Phil Minton performs with Feral Choir and in duo with Audrey Chen in Mexico City in October 2025.
Minton participates in Ad Libitum Festival in Warsaw with King Übü Orchestra in September 2025.
The album TRUE with Phil Minton and Ståle Liavik Solberg is released in 2025.
Minton performs both in duo with Veryan Weston and as a soloist at Kongsberg Jazz Festival in Norway in July 2024.
Minton contributes to the album wrists out (2024) with Beam Splitter.
