Article XI was originally formed for Manchester Jazz Festival 2014 as Anton Hunter’s mjf originals commission for Manchester Jazz Festival. Anton’s innovative compositional method incorporates the band members’ individual voices as improvisers into the finished pieces, calling into question the composer/performer hierarchy and offering an alternative collective approach to composition. The eleven piece group (named after the 11th article of the European Convention on Human Rights, regarding freedom of assembly and trade unions) released its debut album on Efpi Records in 2018 to critical acclaim.