Phil Slater

Phil Slater is an Australian jazz trumpeter and composer based in the Illawarra region. Slater has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists including Archie Roach, Missy Higgins, the Australian Art Orchestra, Lou Reed, Jim Black, Jonathan Zwartz, Katie Noonan, Vince Jones, Bernie McGann, Sandy Evans, Paul Grabowsky, Genevieve Lacey, PNAU, Directions In Groove, Nick Littlemore, Andrea Keller, Barney McAll, and Gian Slater. In the 1990s he studied composition with Peter Sculthorpe, Barry Conynham and Andrew Ford at the University of Sydney and University of Wollongong. During the 1990s and 2000s Slater was a prominent member of the Sydney jazz and improvisation community and led a number of un-recorded projects including The Fresh Kills, the Very Interactive Band, the Whistle Stop Trio, and the Phil Slater Quartet. Since the early 2000s Slater became the leader or co-leader of a number of award winning projects including Strobe Coma Virgo, Band of Five Names, Daorum, and Trace Sphere. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Sl...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)