Frank London

• Name — Frank London • Born — 3 June 1958 • Birthplace — Bronx, New York, United States • Genre — klezmer, jazz, world • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — trumpet

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.

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 original member of 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.

• 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)