Frank London's Shekhina Big Band

The efforts of trumpeter and keyboardist Frank London extend to klezmer music, film music, avant-garde jazz, contemporary classical music, pop and rock, and more; he has performed with musicians ranging from vocalist Mel Tormé to avant-garde composer John Zorn. Much of his music has some connection with Jewish themes. London was born into a Reform Jewish family in 1958 in New York. He took up the trumpet when he was four. London attended the New England Conservatory of Music, graduating in 1980 with a degree in what was then called Afro-American music. That year, he made his ...