Frank London
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.
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- Tsuker-zis by Eyal Hareuveni
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- Frank London's A Night in the Old Marketplace by C. Michael Bailey
- Carnival Conspiracy: In the Marketplace All Is Subterfuge by Elliott Simon
- Brotherhood of Brass by Elliott Simon
January 07, 2009
January 8th Last Minute Show - Frank London Band / Ljova and the...
October 15, 2007
Trumpeter Frank London Interviewed at AAJ
March 18, 2007
Frank London's CD Release Concert Monday, March 26th at the Barrow...
January 20, 2007
Frank London's CD Release Concert for "A Night in the Old Marketplace"...