Frank London & Eleanor Reissa with the Klezmer Brass Allstars

The JCC is bringing this event to New Orleans to celebrate Israel's 77th Independence Day (Yom Ha'atzmaut).

This event is made possible through a Yamim Grant

Sir Frank London is a Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composer, a member of the Klezmatics, and leader of the Astro-Hungarian Glass House Orchestra, the Klezmer Brass Allstars, and his Shekhinah Big Band. He’s performed and recorded with John Zorn, Pink Floyd, Mel Tormé, Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy, LaMonte Young, Gal Costa, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, and Itzhak Perlman, appearing on over 500 albums. Recent releases include Chronika (Klezmer Brass Allstars), Spirit Stronger Than Blood (The Elders, NY Times Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2024), Conspiracy Brass (Tzadik Records), and In The City of God.

Other recordings include Ghetto Songs; Salomé Woman of Valor (with Adeena Karasick); Invocations (cantorial music); Carnival Conspiracy, Di Shikere Kapelye, and Brotherhood of Brass (with the Klezmer Brass Allstars); Nigunim and The Zmiros Project (with Lorin Sklamberg); the folk opera A Night in the Old Marketplace; and four albums with Hasidic New Wave. His first symphony 1001 Voices: A Symphony for a New America (text by Judith Sloan, video by Warren Lehrer) premiered in 2012, and his Yiddish-Cuban opera Hatuey: Memory of Fire (libretto by Elise Thoron) debuted in Cuba and NYC in 2018.

His band Di Shikere Kapelye (aka the Klezmer Brass Allstars) brings high-energy klezmer (Eastern European Yiddish music) to concerts, festivals, parties, and parades worldwide. They’ve released five acclaimed recordings, the live Rooftop Concert film, and collaborated with artists like Eleanor Reissa, Lorin Sklamberg, Sarah Gordon, Michael Alpert, Joshua Nelson, Boban Marcoviç, Maracatú New York, Margot Leverett, and Cairo’s Hasabella Brass Band. Regulars at HONK NYC and international tours, their album Chronika (Borscht Beat), featuring DJ Joro-Boro, Yossi Piamenta z”l, and others, hit the World Music Charts Europe Top Ten and continues to receive global airplay.

Video Clips:

TOPZ (from Chronika)

GREEKZ (from Chronika)

The Rooftop Concert

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