Ed Kroeger

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Ed Kröger in the "Hafenbahnhof" club in Hamburg-Ottensen

Erhard "Ed" Kröger (born December 2, 1943 in Flensburg ) is a German jazz musician (trombone, piano).

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Kröger, who grew up in Cuxhaven , learned the piano as a child and learned the trombone from the age of 16, studied trombone in Bremen from 1965 . There he played in the sextet of Harald Eckstein , with whom he performed at festivals in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Vienna and Zurich. In 1967 he founded his own group with Sigi Busch and Heinrich Hock , which, expanded by Joe Viera , toured Austria, Hungary and Luxembourg in 1968. Kröger continued to work with Marion Brown , Steve McCall , Gerd Dudek and Albert Mangelsdorff and appeared in the free jazz groups of Fred Van Hove and Wolfgang Dauner at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1968 and 1969 . He also wrote the textbook “The Trombone in Jazz” before he began studying music as a music teacher after graduating as an orchestral musician. In 1972 he was sent to the jazz workshop of the European broadcasters as a German representative. In 1973 Kröger switched to the piano, played in his own trio, but also with Manfred Schoof , Wolfgang Engstfeld , Christof Lauer , Uli Beckerhoff and Wolfgang Lackerschmid . He continued to work as a lecturer at the music academies in Hanover and Hamburg. In 1984 he returned to the trombone and founded (with Detlev Beier, among others ) the group "Trombone Jazz". In the last few years he is with his bop-oriented quartet or quintet , u. a. performed with Matthias Bätzel , Romy Camerun or his son, Ignaz Dinné .

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SURNAME Kroger, Ed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kröger, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg