Frank London
Frank London (born 1958 ) is a Jewish-American trumpeter and composer. In 2007 he received with his band The Klezmatics Grammy Award for contemporary world music.
Life and work
London grew up as a child with rock and roll. After high school he spent a year studying at Boston University and later at the New England Conservatory and Brown University. Played with The Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave ( neo- klezmer punk band ), Nigunim and directs his band Frank London 's Klezmer Brass Allstars, a pure wind formation. In the largest German World Music Festival, the TFF Rudolstadt, he presented in 2004 under the name Brotherhood of Brass, a joint project with the Serbian Roma Boban Marković Orkestar lineup. The Les Miserables Brass Band and the Klezmer Conservatory Band, he co-founded.
London also played a large role in the Radical Jewish Culture movement and played recordings for the record label Tzadik one. He has worked with such diverse musicians such as John Zorn, John Cale, Itzhak Perlman, Allen Ginsberg, LL Cool J, Mel Tormé, David Murray, Lester Bowie 's Brass Fantasy, La Monte Young, Natalie Merchant, They Might Be Giants, Chava Alberstein, Anne LeBaron and Iggy Pop collaborated. He also worked together with the Palestinian violinist and oud player Simon Shaheen. Next, he has written film scores, such as for Jonathan Berman's The Shvitz (also as a soundtrack album released ) and Bruno de Almeida's The Debt (1993). He also worked as a theater musician.
Frank London has been married to the German singer Tine Kindermann and lives in New York and Berlin.
Recordings
Frank London:
- Invocations
- Hazonos
Frank London with Lorin Sklamberg:
- Nigunim
- The Zmiros Project
- Tsuker - zis
Frank London 's Klezmer Brass Allstars:
- Di Shikere Kapelye
- Brotherhood of Brass
- Carnival Conspiracy
The Shekhina Big Band:
- The Shekhina Big Band
Soundtracks:
- The Shvitz
- Divan
Hasidic New Wave:
- Jews & The Abstract Truth
- Psycho - Semitic
- Kabalogy
- Live in Krakow
- From the Belly of Abraham