Phil Minton

Phil Minton
Born: Nov 2, 1940 in Torquay, England
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Styles: Radio Works, Free Improvisation, Avant-Garde, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Biography: Avant-garde vocalist Phil Minton has a large vocabulary of voices and extended vocal techniques and an extensive discography cataloguing his numerous projects from 1969 on. Born near the Southern coast of England in 1940, he started out on the trumpet and began playing in jazz bands in the late '50s. ...Read full biography
Songs from a Prison Diary (Poems by Ho Chi Minh)
Released: 1993
Label: Leo
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This wildly ambitious project for solo voice, choir (where everyone has either a solo or soloistic role), piano (Weston), and percussion is among the most beautiful and profound works in modern music. ...Read full review
Dada Da
Released: 1993
Label: The Orchard
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Whatever you think you know about duets between voice and percussion, forget it -- at least until you've heard this fine slab by Phil Minton and Roger Turner. Here are ten improvisations for a whirlwind ...Read full review
More Phil Minton albums: Main Albums (13)
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