Frank London is a Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, composer, and bandleader whose restless musical curiosity has placed him at the intersection of klezmer, jazz, avant-garde, and world music traditions for over forty years. As a co-founder of the Klezmatics—the pioneering ensemble that brought Yiddish music into conversation with rock, jazz, and global sounds—London helped ignite a worldwide klezmer revival while refusing to let tradition become a museum piece.

His trumpet has graced over 100 recordings and shared stages with an improbable constellation of collaborators: John Zorn and LL Cool J, Mel Tormé and They Might Be Giants, David Byrne and LaMonte Young. This range isn't eclecticism for its own sake—it reflects London's conviction that Jewish musical traditions are living, breathing forms that gain vitality through dialogue with other cultures.

Beyond performance, London has composed for film (John Sayles' The Brother from Another Planet and Men with Guns), theater (David Byrne and Robert Wilson's The Knee Plays), and dance (Pilobolus). His folk-opera A Night in the Old Marketplace, based on Y.L. Peretz's Yiddish masterwork, exemplifies his commitment to bringing Jewish artistic heritage into contemporary creative practice.

As leader of Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars and the Hasidic New Wave, he continues to push boundaries—whether collaborating with Palestinian violinist Simon Shaheen, producing albums for Romani legend Esma Redžepova, or teaching Jewish music from the Catskills to Crimea. His work embodies a radical proposition: that the deepest engagement with tradition requires the courage to transform it.