Erling Kroner

Kroner shortly after played avantgarde music, with saxophonist John Tchicai, and rock in Melvis & His Gentlemen. Beginning in 1967 Kroner played formed his own group, which remained in existence for the rest of his life, and which primarily was a quintet or tentet. During the 1970s Kroner played in NDR's Big Band in Hamburg. From 1973 to 1986, Kroner was also a member of the DR Big Band and played in Leif Johanssons orchestra and Lasse Beijboms band – White Orange. From mid-1990s he was bandleader of a big orchestra together with Lasse Beijbom – The Beijbom-Kroner Big Band. In 2004 Kroner and the American baritone saxophonist Ed Epstein formed the band Bari-Bone Connection, who recorded the album Bari My Heart. Kroner died at his home in Copenhagen on 2 March 2011 surrounded by family after suffering from cancer for an extended period.

• The Forgotten Art (1977) • Erling Kroner Tentet – Entre Dos Cielos (1982) • Erling Kroner en Buernos Aires (1991) • Erling Kroner Dark Side Orchestra (1992) • Beijbom / Kroner Big Band – Opposites Attract (1997) • Erling Kroner Dream Quintet – Ahi va el negro (1998) • Erling Kroner Dream Quintet – Trombomissimo (1999) • Beijbom / Kroner Big Band – Tango for Bad People (2004) • Erling Kroner New Music Orchestra – Tango Jalousie and all that Jazz (2005) • Erling Kroner New Music Orchestra – The Mariposa Project – Live on Jazzhouse (2007) • Erling Kroner New Music Orchestra – EKNMO B3 (2008) • The Epstein – Kroner Bari Bone Connection – Bari My Heart (2008)