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Frank London (born 1958 in New York) is an American klezmer trumpeter who also plays jazz and world music.
Early life
London was born to a Reform Jewish family and grew up in Plainview, New York and Connecticut. He started playing the trumpet in fourth grade.
Career
London received a B.A. in Afro-American music from the New England Conservatory in 1980. He is on the music faculty of the State University of New York at Purchase. He is a member of The Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave, and leads Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars. He was a co-founder of Les Misérables Brass Band and the Klezmer Conservatory Band. He served as conductor and music director for David Byrne and Robert Wilson's The Knee Plays and has collaborated with the Palestinian American violinist Simon Shaheen.
He has worked with Chava Alberstein, Lester Bowie, John Cale, Gal Costa, Ben Folds Five, Avraham Fried, Allen Ginsberg, Anne LeBaron, LL Cool J, Luna, Maurice El Mediouni, Natalie Merchant, David Murray, Itzhak Perlman, Iggy Pop, Jerome Rothenberg, Marc Ribot, Jane Siberry, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, They Might Be Giants, Mel Tormé, Reggie Workman, La Monte Young, Lev Zhurbin, and John Zorn.
Discography
= As leader
=Glass House Orchestra – Astro-Hungarian Jewish Music
Invocations (cantorial music)
Hazonos (cantorial music)
"Scientist at Work" (produced by John Zorn)
Frank London with Lorin Sklamberg (Klezmatics singer):
Nigunim (Jewish mystical songs)
The Zmiros Project (Shabbes songs)
tsuker-zis (holiday songs, featuring Knox Chandler, Ara Dinkjian & Deep Singh)
Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars:
Di Shikere Kapelye
Brotherhood of Brass
Carnival Conspiracy
Chronika
The Shekhina Big Band:
The Shekhina Big Band
Film and theater music:
The Debt (film and theater music)
Soundtracks:
The Shvitz
Divan (film by Pearl Gluck)
Hasidic New Wave:
"Jews & The Abstract Truth"
"Psycho-Semitic"
"Kabalogy"
"Live In Krakow" (on Not Two records)
"From The Belly of Abraham"
With Jon Madof's Zion80
Zion80 (Tzadik, 2013)
Adramelech: Book of Angels Volume 22 (Tzadik, 2014)
With Auktyon
Devushki payut (2007)
Compositions
London has composed numerous works for theater, dance, and film, and is the recipient of several Meet the Composer grants. Some of his major works include the folk opera A Night in the Old Marketplace (based on Y. L. Peretz's Bay nakht oyfn altn mark); Davenen, a dance for the Pilobolus Dance Theatre and the Klezmatics; Great Small Works' The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln, and Min Tanaka's Romance. In 2011, A Night in the Old Marketplace was workshopped and premiered at MassMOCA.
He has also composed music for films, including John Sayles' The Brother from Another Planet (1984) and Men With Guns (1997), Yvonne Rainer's Murder and Murder, the Czech-American Marionette Theater's Golem, and Tamar Rogoff's Ivye Project.
Other activities
He has been featured on HBO's Sex and the City soundtrack, at the North Sea Jazz Festival, and at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival. He attends various workshops throughout the year, including KlezKanada of Montreal, where he teaches aspiring musicians the art of klezmer music. He has taught Jewish music in Canada, Crimea, and the Catskills and is Artistic Director of KlezFest London in London, England.
Awards
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album (2007)
External links
Official website
Interview from Montreal Mirror
Short Biography and Interviews With Frank London
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Anne Frank
- Frank Lampard
- Frank Rhodes
- Andre Gunder Frank
- Frank Whittle
- Frank Zappa
- London Coliseum
- Frank Swettenham
- Britania Raya
- Frank Kermode
- Frank London
- Jason London
- Jeremy London
- Frank Auerbach
- Frank London Brown
- London
- Frank Kitson
- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Knight Frank
- Jonny Freeman
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