Pictorically Speakin' ......the late sixties

Manager Niels Wenkens showing off 11 of his 12 major 'beat-groups' in B.T. Monday May 30, 1966

Peter Belli and Rivals, The Defenders, The Teenmakers, Stoke Sect, Beefeaters, Lions, Scarlets, Joe E. Carter And His Group, Beethovens, Melvis And His Gentlemen & Someones. (Hitmakers are missing)
Erling Kroner is seen in the back row, center, Melvis is 2nd from the right, front row and Jesper Bech Nielsen 2nd row to the right of Melvis
Melvis And His Gentlemen 1966 ©Jan Persson
Hans Pindborg, Carl Christian "Snus" Søndergaard, Ivan "Melvis" Haagensen, Lars Kofoed, Jesper Halberg, Poul Christian Nielsen, Jesper Bech Nielsen, Erling Kroner
Place Pigalle, Bakken, June 1966

DANSETTEN
Tivoli, summer 1966



(Ole Nezer-tp subbing)
Star Club, Copenhagen, fall 1966


Jesper Halberg, Lars Kofoed, Erling Kroner, Preben Uno Tschicaja

Erling Kroner & Teit Høvring, spring 1967
Melvis, April 27, 1967, Næstved
Erling Kroner as Batman & Hans Pindborg as Robin capture bad guy Melvis

Press stunt for new Batman movie, April 3, 1967
Melvis and his Gentlemen the touring band and the Jaguar Mark VII, 1967

Teit Høvring, Erling Kroner, Ken Gudman, Melvis, Lars Kofoed, Hans Pindborg


Melvis ©Jan Persson
Attending Magleås Summer Jazz Clinic last concert, August 1967

Jesper Bech Nielsen & Erling Kroner with company
Svend Baaring's Big Band
a.k.a Nærum Big Band
Repriseteatret, Holte, January 1968

Tp: Ole Vedfeldt, Lars Togeby, Erik Tschentscher, J.J. Gjedsted
Tb: Per Gade, Niels Neergaard, Erling Kroner, Peter Westh
Sx: Peter Vamberg, Knud Bjørnø, Michael Hove, Svend Baaring, Henry Marquardsen
Ole Matthiessen-p/cond, Anders Barfoed-p, Henrik Hove-b, ?-d
Erling Kroner Quintet
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Repriseteatret, Holte, October 12, 1968
ball-point sketch by ©Carl Weinoldt (World Champion)
Erling Kroner-tb, Michael Hove-as, Ole Matthiessen-p,
Henrik Hove-b, Bent Clausen-d
Erling Kroner & Michael Hove at Jazzhus Montmartre 1968
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Drawing ©Knud Agergaard

EKQ Brøndby Jazzclub, December 8, 1968 ©Kirsten Weinoldt

Erling Kroner & Ole Matthiessen - EKQ Repriseteatret, January 4, 1969
"Philly" Joe Jones All Stars
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Repriseteatret, Holte January 11, 1969 © Kirsten Weinoldt
George Russell Sextet - Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature
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Danish Radio Studio 3, January 29, 1969 ©Kirsten Weinoldt
Photo from the recording session at Ole Matthiessen's home for entering the
Down Beat Hall of Fame competition for studies at Berklee School of Music.
later 1969
with Jens Jørn Gjedsted, Repriseteatret
and newspaperclippings

Ole Matthiessen conducts the Svend Baaring Big Band at Repriseteatret

elsewhere with Bo Stieff (bass) 1969
Roffe Ericsson with the Danish Radio Big Band 1969

©Kirsten Weinoldt

Ole Kurt Jensen, Axel Windfeld, Torolf Mølgaard, Erling Kroner, Niels Henning Ørsted-Pedersen, DRBB 1969 ©Kirsten Weinoldt

Torolf Mølgaard ©Kirsten Weinoldt 1969
Booker Ervin with DRBB 1969

©Kirsten Weinoldt 1969
The Phil Wilson 10 Trombone Ensemble, Berklee Fall 1969

rehearsing in the basement of the Boylston Street building
?-b, ?-btb, Art Baron (partly hidden), ?, Erling Kroner, Tony Lada
Phil Wilson - cond.
Hal Crook, Jaxon Stock, ?,?,? and Keith Copeland-cga

Phil solos w/Erling and Tony Lada listening
at the Czerbinski residence, Southington, Connecticutt, X-Mas, December 1969: