Philip Harper (trumpeter)

Philip " Phil" Harper ( born May 10, 1965 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American jazz trumpeter.

Harper, who grew up in Atlanta / Georgia, learned at the age of ten years under the guidance of his brother Danny Harper. He studied at the Hartt School of Music under Jackie McLean and went at the age of eighteen years to New York, where he worked with musicians such as Jimmy Scott, Jimmy McGriff, Betty Carter, Etta Jones, Harry Sweets Edison, Bill Cosby and Cedar Walton.

From 1986 to 1988 he was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Then with his brother Winard Harper, he founded the band Harper Brothers, who also Justin Robinson and Stephen Scott belonged. After its dissolution in 1991, he toured with various bands, including the Mingus Big Band ( Gunslinging Birds, 1994) and taught at several conservatories in Europe.

Harper worked on more than fifty albums and played two solo albums one: Soulful Sin and The Thirteenth Moon.