Frank London (Tzadik Records) to RIO/Avant

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   I checked PA and if no mistake, I didn't find even offer to include great klezmer avant-jazz trumpeter Frank London. He played with John Zorn on some albums (for example on Kristallnacht, 1993), and recorded 3 solo albums and two callaboration albums on Tzadik records. I've seen him for a first time this summer in Vilnius Klezmer Fest, and he was really great playing kind of kletzmer based free jazz with domestic free jazz musicians. 

He is better known by his musicianship with The Klezmatics and many collaborations with different world fusion artists , as Boban Markovic (great Serbian Balkan/Gypsy folk musician),or Andralamoussia. But he plays not only kletzmer world fusion, but plenty of avant-jazz, free-jazz and experimetal kletzmer music. 

As session musician, he played with some wellknown bands as well. Even if sometime sounding as jazz fusion or even jazz-rock musician, in total he is figure in musical field near to John Zorn (especially Masada). I believe he should be placed in PA, I think under RIO/avant label.
Some Frank London music examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L8D5WBxYBQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lm9UBJmU1M&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cta5AKCAzs4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXXNVrkUfJ4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6XVP3DUlGY&feature=related

Frank London bio:

Trumpeter/composer FRANK LONDON is a member of the Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave, has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, Lester Bowie¹s Brass Fantasy, LaMonte Young, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, Jane Siberry, Ben Folds 5, Mark Ribot, Maurice El Medioni and Gal Costa, and is featured on over 100 cds. His own recordings include INVOCATIONS (cantorial music); Frank London¹s Klezmer Brass Allstars¹ DI SHIKERE KAPELYE and BROTHERHOOD OF BRASS; NIGUNIM and THE ZMIROS PROJECT (Jewish mystical songs, with Klezmatics vocalist Lorin Sklamberg); THE DEBT (film and theater 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. 

His projects include the folk-opera A NIGHT IN THE OLD MARKETPLACE (based on Y.L. Peretz's Bay nakht oyfn altn mark), DAVENEN for Pilobolus and the Klezmatics, Great Small Works' THE MEMOIRS OF GLUCKEL OF HAMELN and Min Tanaka's ROMANCE. He composed music for John Sayles' THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET and MEN WITH GUNS, Yvonne Rainer's MURDER AND MURDER, the Czech-American Marionette Theater¹s GOLEM and Tamar Rogoff's IVYE PROJECT. 
He was music director for David Byrne and Robert Wilson¹s THE KNEE PLAYS, collaborated with Palestinian violinist Simon Shaheen, taught Jewish music in Canada, Crimea and the Catskills, and produced CD's for Gypsy Ledgend Esma Redzepova, and Algerian Pianist Maurice el Medioni. 
He has been featured on HBO¹s SEX AND THE CITY, at the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Lincoln Center Summer Festival, and was a co-founder of Les Miserables Brass Band and the Klezmer Conservatory Band.

If Frank London will be approved for PA, I am ready to prepare bio and discog as well.

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	I checked PA and if no mistake, I didn't find even offer to include great klezmer avant-jazz trumpeter Frank London. He played with John Zorn on some albums (for example on Kristallnacht, 1993), and recorded 3 solo albums and two callaboration albums on Tzadik records. I've seen him for a first time this summer in Vilnius Klezmer Fest, and he was really great playing kind of kletzmer based free jazz with domestic free jazz musicians. He is better known by his musicianship with The Klezmatics and many collaborations with different world fusion artists , as Boban Markovic (great Serbian Balkan/Gypsy folk musician),or Andralamoussia. But he plays not only kletzmer world fusion, but plenty of avant-jazz, free-jazz and experimetal kletzmer music. As session musician, he played with some wellknown bands as well. Even if sometime sounding as jazz fusion or even jazz-rock musician, in total he is figure in musical field near to John Zorn (especially Masada). I believe he should be placed in PA, I think under RIO/avant label. Some Frank London music examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L8D5WBxYBQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lm9UBJmU1M&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cta5AKCAzs4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXXNVrkUfJ4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6XVP3DUlGY&feature=related Frank London bio: Trumpeter/composer FRANK LONDON is a member of the Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave, has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, Lester Bowie¹s Brass Fantasy, LaMonte Young, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, Jane Siberry, Ben Folds 5, Mark Ribot, Maurice El Medioni and Gal Costa, and is featured on over 100 cds. His own recordings include INVOCATIONS (cantorial music); Frank London¹s Klezmer Brass Allstars¹ DI SHIKERE KAPELYE and BROTHERHOOD OF BRASS; NIGUNIM and THE ZMIROS PROJECT (Jewish mystical songs, with Klezmatics vocalist Lorin Sklamberg); THE DEBT (film and theater 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. His projects include the folk-opera A NIGHT IN THE OLD MARKETPLACE (based on Y.L. Peretz's Bay nakht oyfn altn mark), DAVENEN for Pilobolus and the Klezmatics, Great Small Works' THE MEMOIRS OF GLUCKEL OF HAMELN and Min Tanaka's ROMANCE. He composed music for John Sayles' THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET and MEN WITH GUNS, Yvonne Rainer's MURDER AND MURDER, the Czech-American Marionette Theater¹s GOLEM and Tamar Rogoff's IVYE PROJECT. He was music director for David Byrne and Robert Wilson¹s THE KNEE PLAYS, collaborated with Palestinian violinist Simon Shaheen, taught Jewish music in Canada, Crimea and the Catskills, and produced CD's for Gypsy Ledgend Esma Redzepova, and Algerian Pianist Maurice el Medioni. He has been featured on HBO¹s SEX AND THE CITY, at the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Lincoln Center Summer Festival, and was a co-founder of Les Miserables Brass Band and the Klezmer Conservatory Band. If Frank London will be approved for PA, I am ready to prepare bio and discog as well.