Stan Slotter has been active on the Philadelphia music scene for many years. Trained as a classical player both on trumpet and on flute, Stan decided early in his career that jazz and popular music were closer to his heart. He began playing professionally at age 15 and has since developed a successful career as a versatile freelance player. His favorite styles include jazz and Latin jazz, salsa, Mariachi, world music, traditional jazz, big band, klezmer and Israeli music. He also enjoys chamber music.

Among Stan’s special moments were performances with Cecil Taylor at Carnegie Hall and with Philly Joe Jones at Livingston College. Stan has played benefit concerts at local prisons with Grover Washington Jr. He has recorded with many local bands, including Klingon Klezmer, Atzilut, Minas, Reverie, Seamus Egan, and Ronnie James and the Jez Hot Swing Club and others too numerous to mention. He was a charter member of the Gallery Christmas Tree Orchestra, which had a 13-year run in Center City Philadelphia. Stan created a “History of Jazz” show for the Wayne Concert Series that was performed before an audience of 600 people.

Stan has an energetic and heartfelt approach to the trumpet and flute that lends warmth and style to his music.