Frank London
Frank London (* 1958 ) is an American-Jewish trumpeter and composer . In 2007 he received the Grammy Award for contemporary world music with his band The Klezmatics .
life and work
London grew up with rock and roll as a child . After high school, he studied for a year at Boston University and later at the New England Conservatory and Brown University . He played with The Klezmatics , Hasidic New Wave (Neo-Klezmer-Punk Band), Nigunim and leads his band Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars , a pure brass formation . At the largest German world music festival, the TFF Rudolstadt , he presented a joint project with the Serbian Roma formation Boban Marković Orkestar in 2004 under the name Brotherhood of Brass . He also co-founded the Les Miserables Brass Band and the Klezmer Conservatory Band .
London also played a major role in the Radical Jewish Culture movement and made recordings for the Tzadik record label . He has worked with musicians as diverse 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 or Iggy Pop worked together. He also worked with the Palestinian violinist and oud player Simon Shaheen . He has also written film scores , for example for Jonathan Berman's The Shvitz (also released as a soundtrack album) and Bruno de Almeida's The Debt (1993). He also worked as a theater musician.
Frank London is married to the German singer Tine Kindermann and lives in New York and Berlin.
Recordings
Frank London :
- Invocations
- Hazonos
- "Scientist at Work"
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
Web links
- Literature by and about Frank London in the catalog of the German National Library
- Frank London in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
- Portrait (Yiddish Cultural Autumn)
- Frank London at Allmusic (English)
- Frank London at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.klezmer.de/Platten/P_Neu/N_Klezmatics/n_klezmatics.html accessed on December 15, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | London, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Jewish trumpeter and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |