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This Week!
Grammy winner Frank London
meets the Jazz Rabbi
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| Thursday, Jan 5 — sets at 7:30 and 8:45PM
Jazz at the Post
465 Riverside Ave, Westport
(203)-227-6796
sets at 7:30 pm and 8:45 pm
$15 cover
Reservations strongly suggested
JazzatThePost@gmail.com
Featuring a new hot menu from
Chef Derek Furino
dinner from 7:00 PM |
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Frank London
Trumpet
Greg Wall
Tenor & Soprano Sax
Roberta Piket
Piano
Hilliard Greene
Bass
Billy Mintz
Drums |
Frank London is one of the most iconoclastic traditional musicians I have ever met.
Since meeting him at the New England Conservatory in 1979, I have seen and heard him tear down the walls of parochial practices of old and new Jazz, Swing, Bop, Klezmer, Gypsy, Baltic, Cuban, West African and many other musical genres, and create community across the globe while bringing joy to literally hundreds of thousands of concert goers.
I am blessed to have traveled around the world playing and sharing great music with him, and collaborating with him on some of the most memorable moments of music in my career. We were partners in Hasidic New Wave, the pioneering band combining traditional Jewish celebratory music with downtown jazz, funk and pure improvised mayhem, and currently play together in Zion80, a mixed marriage of Avant Jazz and Afro Beat.
Frank is the only Grammy winning trumpeter knighted by the government of Hungary!
This week Sir Frank will feature new compositions for jazz quintet, inspired by the classic spiritual Jazz of Pharaoh Sanders, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Azar Lawrence and others, with an ethnic twist.
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| FEATURED ARTIST SPOTLIGHT |
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Trumpeter/composer FRANK LONDON is a member of the Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave, has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, Lester Bowieπs 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 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 theater music); THE SHEKHINA BIG BAND; the soundtrack to THE SHVITZ; the soundtrack to Perl Gluck’s THE DIVAHN and five releases with 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 Theater’s GOLEM and Tamar Rogoff’s IVYE PROJECT.
He was music director for David Byrne and Robert Wilson’s 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 HBO’s 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.
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| Frank London- Trumpet master |
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| Frank’s composition “We Came to Play”, a tribute to Charles Mingus |
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| Frank, Greg and a mess o’ horns at Joe’s Pub with Zion80 |
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| Rare concert footage of Frank and Greg with the revolutionary Jewish Jazz band Hasidic New Wave in Toronto in 1999 |
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| Frank directing his 18 piece Shekhina Big Band at John Zorn’s The Stone theater in NYC |
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| Frank and Greg with Ethan Iverson of the Bad Plus, Kenny Davis, Yoron Israel and Josh Roseman |
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