Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake with his own ensemble.

He sings on a Jimi Hendrix tribute album, belting out the lyrics in over-the-top fashion.

Between 1987 and 1993 Minton toured Europe, North America, and Russia with Lindsay Cooper's Oh Moscow ensemble.

Minton's like a little kid who's contact-miked himself playing yo-yo with his saliva; he's a baby drooling through his cries; he's mastered the art of the multiple burp; he's perfected the craft of goobering all over his finger and then running it over his lips while moaning.

... Minton ... forces us to ponder the musical qualities of noises that we'd rather not deal with and for that fact alone, makes this an important recording.Minton has worked with most of the improvising musicians in the European scene, but his most frequent improvising companions are the pianist Veryan Weston and the percussionist Roger Turner; Minton and Turner perform as a duo in the opera Agamemnon (1993).