Phil Minton

Phil Minton is a British vocalist and trumpeter, born in Torquay in 1940, who has worked in free improvisation and avant-garde jazz since the 1960s. He is known for an extended vocal technique that includes multiphonics, retching and burping, for settings of texts by writers such as William Blake and James Joyce, and for the Feral Choir, the open workshops and concerts in which he conducts singers of any background. Phil Minton moved to London in 1963 to work with Mike Westbrook, rejoined the Westbrook band in the early 1970s and took part in Westbrook projects until the mid-1980s.