Frank London

Trumpeter and a founding member of the Klezmatics, the band that took klezmer out of the wedding hall and the revival circuit and into an openly political, openly queer-affirming register — the first klezmer band to win a Grammy, in 2006.

⭐ FILED WITH KRAKAUER AS LINEAGE AND REVIVAL, TAKEN SOMEWHERE THE ORIGINAL PLAYERS DID NOT GO. London studied the older repertoire the way Krakauer and Statman did, then used the band to make explicitly political and religious material — a setting of the Passover Haggadah, a queer klezmer wedding record — arguing the tradition was always adaptable rather than fixed in amber.