Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars
Biography
"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?
Clarino.print
"Every player with this group has devoted a lifetime to klezmer. The repertoire is not merely the bulgars, doynes, freylekhs, and horas, but a rare rhythm known as "the Oriental," a reflection of the musical influence from Odessa and the Carpathians."
Barbara Flaska, PopMatters
"Given London's range, this could have been anything. Instead, it is something that I have missed for years, and now that it's here, I now realize how much I've missed it, and how grateful I am that it's back. It's village music. It's a klezmer brass band. And if, like me, you spend time enjoying gypsy brass bands, or even the US equivalent in bands such as Zlatne Uste, you'll begin to appreciate how wonderful it is to hear the klezmer equivalent. Yeah, think of this as Zlatne Uste playing klezmer."
Klezmershack
Frank London
eMail: frank@klezmatics.com
Europe
Engelhardt Promotion GmbH
Lutz Engelhardt
eMail:Engelhardt_Promotions@t-online.de
web: www.engelhardt-promotions.de
Italy
Ballkan World Music Management
eMail: info@musicballkan.com
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?
Press Quotes
"Frank London, the King of Klezmer-Trumpet"Clarino.print
"Every player with this group has devoted a lifetime to klezmer. The repertoire is not merely the bulgars, doynes, freylekhs, and horas, but a rare rhythm known as "the Oriental," a reflection of the musical influence from Odessa and the Carpathians."
Barbara Flaska, PopMatters
"Given London's range, this could have been anything. Instead, it is something that I have missed for years, and now that it's here, I now realize how much I've missed it, and how grateful I am that it's back. It's village music. It's a klezmer brass band. And if, like me, you spend time enjoying gypsy brass bands, or even the US equivalent in bands such as Zlatne Uste, you'll begin to appreciate how wonderful it is to hear the klezmer equivalent. Yeah, think of this as Zlatne Uste playing klezmer."
Klezmershack
Booking
Main BookingFrank London
eMail: frank@klezmatics.com
Europe
Engelhardt Promotion GmbH
Lutz Engelhardt
eMail:Engelhardt_Promotions@t-online.de
web: www.engelhardt-promotions.de
Italy
Ballkan World Music Management
eMail: info@musicballkan.com
Photos
Line up
- Aaron Alexander (drums)
- Alex Kontorovich (clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone)
- Curtis Hasselbring (trombone, skronk guitar)
- Frank London (trumpet, peck horn)
- Jacob Garchik (baritone horn, trombone)
- Mark Rubin (tuba, baritone horn, tex-mex guitar)
- Matt Darriau (clarinet, alto saxophone)
- Merlin Shepherd (clarinets)
- Ron Caswell (tuba)
- Susan Hoffman Watts (trumpet)
