Phil Hanson

Artist Summary

Genres: Jazz / Blues / Fusion

I have been playing Cornet and more recently Trumpet for over 30 years. During the late 1990’s with Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band (B ’n R), I recorded albums at Abbey Road, played to packed out audiences in the Royal Albert Hall, Bridgewater Hall and Birmingham Symphony Hall (to name but a few), did recordings for the BBC and toured across America, Canada and Europe. In late 1999 after 7 years with B ’n R, I decided I had had enough of the formality and lack of improvisation that was involved with Brass Bands, so I handed back my Cornet and quit while B ‘n R were at the top (at the time they were the number 1 brass band in the world). In the 10 years that followed I got married, had 2 beautiful children, built up a decent career in I.T. and played my battered old Rudy Muck Trumpet no more than a handful of times! I decided to get back into playing music again in late 2009, but rather than play Cornet in another Brass Band, I bought a new Trumpet and started work on becoming a serious Jazz musician. I am now busy making my own Jazz music using a Composition through Improvisation approach, rather than relying on writing the notes down on manuscript. I have large and ambitious plans for my music career but put simply, my musical ambition is to become one of the next great Jazz Innovators. I am working to achieve this through the creation of original, contemporary sounding Jazz music that the mainstream of people will (hopefully!) enjoy listening to and watching live.

You can read all about me and my music on my website - www.philhanson.co.uk