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Frank London in da house! And sporting this ultra-dope lineup! LunÀtico has SOOOO much been looking forward to tonite. Prepare for some serious adventure.

Frank London - trumpet
Greg Wall - sax
Marilyn Lerner - piano
Hilliard Green - bass
Reggie Nicholson - drums

SPIRIT STRONGER THAN BLOOD pays homage to some of the recordings that shaped Frank's musical-spiritual aesthetic: Charles Mingus’ Changes 1&2, Booker Little’s Strength and Sanity, Pharaoh Sanders’ Peace and Love, Clifford Thornton’s Gardens of Harlem, Alice Coltrane’s Ptah el Daoud. The music is spiritual, political, romantic, at turns angry and peaceful, and inspires us to transcend and challenge the inequities of quotidian existence in order to make the world a better place, to heal the broken world. The recording, Spirit Stronger Than Blood, was on the New York TImes’ Top Ten Jazz recordings list for 2024.

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, Brass Conspiracy and his Shekhinah Big Band. He has 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, Itzhak Perlman and is featured on over 500 albums.  

Other recordings include: the spiritual song cycle, In The City of God; Ghetto Songs; Salomé Woman of Valor (with poet Adeena Karasick); Invocations (cantorial music); the Klezmer Brass Allstars’ Chronika, Carnival Conspiracy, Di Shikere Kapelye and Brotherhood of Brass; Nigunim and the Zmiros Project (Jewish mystical songs, with Klezmatics vocalist Lorin Sklamberg); the folk opera A Night in the Old Marketplace (based on Y.L. Peretz’s 1907 play); and four releases with the Hasidic New Wave. His first symphony, 1001 Voices: A Symphony for a New America (with text by Judith Sloan and video by Warren Lehrer), premiered in 2012. His Yiddish-Cuban opera, Hatuey Memory of Fire (libretto by Elise Thoron), premiered in Cuba and New York in 2018.