1. Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars, Carnival Conspiracy, Piranha

 

On this staggering side project -- featuring unrealistically multicultural Gypsy brass played by wandering klezmorim -- Klezmatics trumpeter London shows his mad-genius side. A freelance cultural theorist who believes in carnival as a revolutionary concept, London is also a bandleader with a knack for mixing the raw and the cooked. His guys, gals and guests can play. But just for fun, sometimes they make like they can't.