Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars

country:
USA
region:
North America
style(s):
Brass Klezmer
label:
Piranha Musik
type:
Band, Composer/Songwriter
gender:
male
instrumentation:
instrumental
artist submitted by:
Piranha Musik

"He (Frank London) has a relationship to the avant garde, to jazz, to ethnic music and he's participating in a late 20th century investigation of Jewish music that I think has a knowledge of all the different aspects of our situation as Jews."
- Jenny Romaine

Trumpeter, band leader, composer and human dynamo, Frank London is a member of the Klezmatics and Hasidic New Wave and leader of Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars. The list of artists he has performed with includes 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. He has appeared on over 100 albums. 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 theatre 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.
He is a prolific composer of music for theatre and film. He has collaborated with Palestinian violinist Simon 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 even appeared on "Sex and the City". What more do you want?