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Frank London - Artist Page
Frank London
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Biography:
 
Trumpeter and composer Frank London is a member of the Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave, has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, Lester Bowie's 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 All Stars, Di Shikere Kapelye (the Inebriated Orchestra) 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 Divan 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), Davenenn 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 Theater's Golem; and Tamar Rogoff's Ivye Project, Live in Crackow, Poland, 2001.

He was music director for David Byrne and Robert Wilson's The Knee Plays, collaborated with Palestinian violinist SSimon Shaheen, taught Jewish music in Canada, Crimea and the Catskills, and produced CD's for Gypsy legend 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.

Official Web Site: http://www.franklondon.com


Interview:
 

Party Until You Are Beyond Rationality, An Interview with Klezmer Musician Frank London. World Music Central (2006)


Similar Music:
 
Klezmer, Trumpet

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