Trumpeter Phil Slater is one of Australia’s most accomplished jazz artists. He is the leader/co-leader of the Phil Slater Quartet, The Sun Songbook, Band of Five Names and Daorum. He has been  a featured performer with a wide variety of  artists including the Australian Art Orchestra, Archie Roach, Sandy Evans, Missy Higgins, Lou Reed, Bae Il Tong, Katie Noonan, Vince Jones, Jim Black, Bernie McGann, Baecastuff, Genevieve Lacey, Andrea Keller, Jonathan Zwartz, PNAU, DIG, and many others. His work has been featured widely in Australian theatre, cinema and television productions. He has been awarded the National Jazz Award, the Bell Award for Australian Jazz Musician of the Year and Best Australian Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, the Freedman Fellowship and the Limelight Award and is currently a lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.     

Phil Slater’s latest album The Dark Pattern is out now