Michael Mantler has been played on NTS in shows including Keel Her , featured first on 27 September 2017. Songs played include Number Six, Movie Eight and The Object-Lesson.

Michael Mantler (born August 10, 1943) is an Austrian trumpeter and composer in new jazz and contemporary music.

Mantler was born in Vienna, Austria. He went to the United States in 1962 to study music, and after early activities within the New York avant garde community, including work with Cecil Taylor and the Jazz Composer's Guild, he was a founder of the Jazz Composers' Orchestra Association aka JCOA, a non-profit organisation to commission, perform, and record new…