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Trumpeter/composer Frank London is a member of the Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave, has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, Lester Bowieπs Brass Fantasy, LaMonte Young, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, Jane Siberry, Ben Folds 5, Mark Ribot, Maurice El Medioni and Gal Costa, and is featured on over 100 cds. His own recordings include INVOCATIONS (cantorial music); Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars' Di Shikere Kapelye and Brotherhood Of Brass; Nigunim and The Zmiros Project (Jewish mystical songs, with Klezmatics vocalist Lorin Sklamberg); THE DEBT (film and theater music); The Shekhina Big Band; the soundtrack to THE SHVITZ; the soundtrack to Perl Gluck's THE DIVAHN and four releases with the Hasidic New Wave.

His projects include the folk-opera A Night in the Old Marketplace (based on Y.L. Peretz's Bay nakht oyfn altn mark), DAVENEN for Pilobolus and the Klezmatics, Great Small Works' THE MEMOIRS OF GLUCKEL OF HAMELN and Min Tanaka's ROMANCE. He composed music for John Sayles' THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET and MEN WITH GUNS, Yvonne Rainer's MURDER AND MURDER, the Czech-American Marionette Theaterπs GOLEM and Tamar Rogoff's IVYE PROJECT. Live in Crackow Poland, 2001

He was music director for David Byrne and Robert Wilsonπs The Knee Plays, collaborated with Palestinian violinist Simon Shaheen, taught Jewish music in Canada, Crimea and the Catskills, and produced CD's for Gypsy Ledgend Esma Redzepova, and Algerian Pianist Maurice el Medioni.

He has been featured on HBO's Sex And The City, at the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Lincoln Center Summer Festival, and was a co-founder of Les Miserables Brass Band and the Klezmer Conservatory Band.

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Live Review

Frank London Ensemble al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

Read "Frank London Ensemble al Teatro Manzoni di Milano" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Frank London Ensemble -The Glass House Project Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 24.01.2016 Aperitivo in Concerto ha sempre avuto un rapporto privilegiato con musicisti e musiche di estrazione ebraica. In questa edizione, la rassegna ha scelto di celebrare la Giornata della Memoria proponendo The Glass House Project del trombettista Frank London. Un ricordo ed un tributo all'attività del console svizzero Carl Lutz che a Budapest, nel corso della seconda guerra mondiale, ha ...

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Album Review

Frank London / Lorin Sklamberg: Tsuker-zis

Read "Tsuker-zis" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Trumpeter Frank London and vocalist/accordionist Lorin Sklamberg have always attempted to introduce a fresh perspective when redefining traditional Jewish music. As founders of the Grammy award-winning alt-klezmer band The Klezmatics, they adapt ancient and traditional holiday songs of the Jewish diaspora into a modern, surprising sphere.Tsuker-zis, (sugar-sweet), their third installment of Hasidic religious songs and melodies, nigunim--after Nigunim (Tzadik, 1998) and The Zmiros Project (Traditional Crossroads, 2001)--are all exemplary for their vision. They dress the beautiful and touching ...

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Multiple Reviews

Frank London: A Night in the Old Marketplace & Gachupin

Read "Frank London: A Night in the Old Marketplace & Gachupin" reviewed by Joel Roberts


Frank London A Night in the Old Marketplace Soundbrush 2007 Gachupin Gachupin Self Released 2007

Nearly a decade in the making, A Night in the Old Marketplace is an ambitious project based on a 1907 play by Yiddish writer IL Peretz featuring a powerful score by klezmer virtuoso Frank London and ...

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Interview

Frank London: The Jew with the Horn

Read "Frank London: The Jew with the Horn" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Frank London is one of the most interesting and colorful figures in the current revival of Jewish music--mistakenly identified only as Klezmer music--of the last two decades. London seeks consciously and constantly to expand the terminology and vocabulary of Jewish music with groups including Hasidic New Wave, Shekinah Big Band and Klezmer Brass All-Stars. The Klezmatics won a 2006 best World Music Grammy Award for its versions of Woody Guthrie songs on Wonder Wheel (Jewish Music Group, 2006). “It was ...

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Album Review

Frank London: Frank London's A Night in the Old Marketplace

Read "Frank London's A Night in the Old Marketplace" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


"There's an angel who lies at the bottom of the well. Can you still hear her sighs from the bottom of the well? She fled from a man who she never could love. Now her bed's in the sand at the bottom of the well."

How can any red-blooded poetry lover resist such bleak lyrics? If this is not enough, these words are splashed against a decadent-rich Klezmer-Cabaret backdrop that sounds like Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht deep ...

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Album Review

Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars: Carnival Conspiracy: In the Marketplace All Is Subterfuge

Read "Carnival Conspiracy: In the Marketplace All Is Subterfuge" reviewed by Elliott Simon


Trumpeter Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars jump-started New York City's globalFEST this past month. The two-day smorgasbord of sound, now in its third sold-out year at Joe's Pub, featured three concurrent stages of the best in world music. London's aggregation included a bevy of brass, clarinets, vocalists, Brazilian percussion ensemble Scott Kettner & Maracatú New York, and the furiously pumping rhythm section of drummer Aaron Alexander and tubaist extraordinaire Ron Caswell. Coupled with London's sweet horn and manic stage presence, ...

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Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars: Brotherhood of Brass

Read "Brotherhood of Brass" reviewed by Elliott Simon


The mystical high priest of New Wave Avant-Klez jazz, Frank London, has released an album that defies phony political barriers and exposes solid musical commonalties among Gypsy, Jewish and Arabic music. ?Brotherhood of Brass?, the second release from Frank London?s Klezmer Brass All Stars, is a concept album that reaches across multiple millennia to present a view of musical cultural inter-relationships. For this purpose, London has enlisted the aid of two other brass bands, the Boban Markovic Orkestar (Serbia) and ...

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Event

January 8th Last Minute Show - Frank London Band / Ljova and the Kontraband Double Bill

January 8th Last Minute Show - Frank London Band / Ljova and the Kontraband Double Bill

Source: All About Jazz

WHO: FRANK LONDON BAND LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND double bill

WHEN: Wednesday, January 8 at 8pm

WHERE: MEHANATA (a.k.a. The Bulgarian Bar) 113 Ludlow Street, bet. Delancey & Rivington New York City Subway: F/J/M/Z to Delancey, V to 2nd Avenue

COST: $10 at the door.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS: A founder of The Klezmatics, FRANK LONDON -- is a Grammy award winning composer ...

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Interview

Trumpeter Frank London Interviewed at AAJ

Trumpeter Frank London Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz

Frank London is one of the most interesting and colorful figures in the current revival of Jewish music--mistakenly identified only as Klezmer music--of the last two decades. London seeks consciously and constantly to expand the terminology and vocabulary of Jewish music with groups including Hasidic New Wave, Shekinah Big Band and Klezmer Brass All-Stars. The Klezmatics won a 2006 best World Music Grammy Award for its versions of Woody Guthrie songs on Wonder Wheel (Jewish Music Group, 2006). “It was ...

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Performance / Tour

Frank London's CD Release Concert Monday, March 26th at the Barrow Street Theatre

Frank London's CD Release Concert Monday, March 26th at the Barrow Street Theatre

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

Soundbrush invites you to celebrate its newest release FRANK LONDON'S “ A NIGHT IN THE OLD MARKETPLACE" Featuring Ron Caswell, tuba, bass Brandon Seabrook guitar, banjo, mandolin Art Bailey keyboards, accordion Aaron Alexander, drums And vocalists... La Tanya Hall, Manu Narayan (star of Broadway's Bombay Dreams), Craig Wedren (from Shudder to Think), The Klezmatic's Lorin Sklamberg and many others featured on the recording, Joanne Borts, Karen Goldfeder, Steven Hrycelak, Silvie Jensen, Matt ...

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Performance / Tour

Frank London's CD Release Concert for "A Night in the Old Marketplace" Monday, March 26th8pm at the Barrow Street Theatre

Frank London's CD Release Concert for "A Night in the Old Marketplace" Monday, March 26th8pm at the Barrow Street Theatre

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

Is Pleased To Announce A CD Release Celebration For Frank London's “A Night In The Old Marketplace" Featuring Ron Caswell, tuba. bass Brandon Seabrook guitar, banjo, mandolin Art Bailey keyboards, accordion Aaron Alexander, drums And vocalists... La Tanya Hall, Manu Narayan (star of Broadway's Bombay Dreams), Craig Wedren (from Shudder to Think), The Klezmatic's Lorin Sklamberg and many others featured on the recording, What CD Release ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Live at Town Hall

Organic Sound Harvest Festival
2012

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Tsuker-zis

Tzadik
2009

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Frank London's A...

Soundbrush Records
2007

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Hazonos

Original Jazz Classics
2005

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Divan

Original Jazz Classics
2003

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