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Album Review

Frank London: Touzle Your Kurchy

Read "Touzle Your Kurchy" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Trumpeter Frank London has never been one to color neatly inside the historical lines. Known for his groundbreaking work with the Klezmer Conservatory Band and The Klezmatics, the restless downtown maestro has spent decades detonating cultural boundaries. With the Loisaida Fife and Drum Corps, he turns his sights toward eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Americana, dragging dusty martial traditions into a sweaty, musical block party. The album borrows its title from an antique Scots-English fife-and-drum tune--a flirtatious dare to rumple someone's kerchief--and that ...

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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

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

The Klezmatics: Live at Town Hall

Read "Live at Town Hall" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

La pubblicazione di questo doppio album dal vivo collima con le celebrazioni per i venticinque anni di attività (e almeno altrettanti dischi) dei Klezmatics, nell'occasione (era il 5 marzo 2006) attorniati da una moltitudine di ospiti, anche molto prestigiosi (uno su tutti: David Krakauer). Il risultato è decisamente enciclopedico, con tutti i pro e anche qualche contro che operazioni del genere quasi sempre si portano dietro. È chiaro che i fedelissimi del gruppo capitanato da Darriau, London e Morrissett riscontreranno ...

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Album Review

Frank London - Lorin Sklamberg: Tsuker-zis

Read "Tsuker-zis" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Tsuker-zis, dolce come lo zucchero. In effetti, questo terzo capitolo (dopo Nigunim e Zmiros) che Frank London e Lorin Sklamberg dedicano all'esplorazione del canto popolare ebraico, soprattutto di derivazione yiddish, potrebbe cadere nella tentazione del cosiddetto tongue-in-cheeck o, peggio, dello heart-in-sleeve, la bieca speculazione sulla memoria emotiva dei bei vecchi tempi andati. Non vi è traccia di schmaltz in queste pagine che, per quanto tradizionali, vengono sottoposte ad una rielaborazione che, lungi dall'allontanarsi dalla tradizione, la riconnette invece alla contemporaneità. ...

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Album Review

Frank London / Lorin Sklamberg: Tsuker-zis

Read "Tsuker-zis" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

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

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

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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