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NEWS: The Swedish Songbook – new album out NOW. With some of the most exciting new voices on the Swedish music scene and with the album The Swedish Songbook, Fredrik Kronkvist carries on the legacy of our own musical heroes and brings these legendary songs into our modern times. Here, Kronkvist offers his favourites from folk music, songs, hymns and other songs from the Swedish music treasure in an adventurous musical experience. Musicians: Fredrik Kronkvist alto saxophone, Olle Wullt – electric guitar, Sven-Erik Lundeqvist piano & rhodes, Simon Petersson – bass, Adam Ross – drums

Click here for a free score of Fredrik’s arrangement on Emigrantvisa

Upcoming dates:

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Upcomning dates:

9 nov Malmö – JuJu Jazz – Fredrik Kronkvist Afro Cuban Supreme

12 nov Copenhagen – w Kjeld Lauritsen

20 nov Lund – Mejeriet Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

21 nov Sundsvall Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

22 nov Östersund Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

23 nov Härnösand Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

24 nov Umeå Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

25 nov Övik Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

26 nov Skellefteå Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

27 nov Piteå Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

2 dec Köpenhamn – International Jazz Collective

7 dec Malmö – JuJu Jazz – Fredrik Kronkvist Fonksters

28 jan Karlshamn – Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

31 jan Västerås – Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

1 feb Växjö – Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

2 feb Älmhult – Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

14 mars Hässleholm – Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

16 mars Malmö – JuJu Jazz – Fredrik Kronkvist Quartet w Vindla String Quartet

27 april – Karlskrona – Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – The Swedish Songbook

16 mars Malmö – JuJu Jazz – Fredrik Kronkvist Quartet w Vindla String Quartet

11 maj Malmö – JuJu Jazz – Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – albumrelease

19 maj Göteborg/Unity- Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – albumrelease

20 maj Göteborg/Unity- Fredrik Kronkvist 5 – albumrelease

March: As a follow up to his ballad hit Theme for Ernie with almost 9 million streams on Spotify, alto saxophone star Fredrik Kronkvist released a new ballad album in the beginning of 2022 with ten original compositions with different tranquil moods and slow music for your heart and soul. Stay tuned!

Here’s the chart for my song Likely, from the album Reflecting Time w Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers & Gregory Hutchinson

Here’s a free chart for my song DEVOTION for all of you who’s been asking for it! Thanks, appreciate you all!

Fredrik Kronkvist – KRONICLES – album out now!
Fredrik Kronkvist releases his 15th album with the stellar musicians Orrin Evans on piano, Martin Sjöstedt on bass and Jeff “Tain” Watts on drums.
Available on Double-Vinyl, CD, iTunes and all Digital Platforms.
KRONOLOGY:100 Compositions by Fredrik Kronkvist – new book out now!
Click HERE to order. See album and book below.

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Click HERE for High-Resolution photo, cover for Kronicles
Click HERE for very High-Resolution photo, org. photo Kronicles.
Click HERE for very High-Resolution alt. photo 2, Kronicles

Fredrik Kronkvist KRONOLOGY:100 Compositions by Fredrik Kronkvist.
Lead sheets including lyrics, quartet, quintet and sextet arrangements from the albums:Kronicles, Afro-Cuban Supreme, On the Move, Monk Vibes,
Reflecting Time, Brooklyn Playground, Atlantic Bridges, New York Elements, Improvised Action, Constant Continuum, Urban Elements, In the Raw, Ignition, Maintain!, Altitude and more…Click HERE to order.

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Tour dates Fredrik Kronkvist Quartet feat. Orrin Evans, Martin Sjöstedt and Jeff “Tain” Watts in November and December :
November:
26 Victoriateatern/Malmö, Sweden, Tickets at Victoria.se
27 Jazzclub Fasching/Stockholm, Sweden, Tickets at Fasching.se
28 Montmartre/Copenhagen, Denmark
29 Montmartre/Copenhagen, Denmark Tickets at Jazzhusmontmartre.dk
30 Unity Jazz/Gothenburg, Sweden
December:
1 Unity Jazz/Gothenburg, Sweden Tickets at Unityjazz.se

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Two albums released in 2017!!!
ON THE MOVE feat. Martin Sjöstedt, Ameen Saleem and Gregory Hutchinson &
AFRO CUBAN SUPREME feat. Miriam Aïda, Eliel Lazo & Jason Marsalis.

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Fredrik Kronkvist AFRO CUBAN SUPREME feat. Jason Marsalis, Eliel Lazo & Miriam Aïda, release October 6 2017

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Fredrik Kronkvist – On the Move feat. Martin Sjöstedt, Ameen Saleem and Gregory Hutchinson, released March 31, 2017.

Fredrik Kronkvist was Nominated for a Swedish Grammy 2016 for the album MONK VIBES feat. Jason Marsalis, Reuben Rogers & Gregory Hutchinson!

Check out my bands available for booking under the band tab:
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Fredrik Kronkvist Quartet feat. Orrin Evans, Martin Sjöstedt & Jeff “Tain” Watts
Fredrik Kronkvist MONK VIBES feat. Jason Marsalis
Fredrik Kronkvist AFRO CUBAN SUPREME feat. Jason Marsalis, Eliel Lazo & Miriam Aïda

Fredrik Kronkvist MONK VIBES feat. Jason Marsalis, Reuben Rogers & Gregory Hutchinson.

Alto saxophonist Fredrik Kronkvist releases album with Thelonious Monk’s music along with three American superstars.

When Kronkvist releases his new album MONK VIBES he continues cooperate with some of the hottest names on the jazz scene with Jason Marsalis on vibraphone, Reuben Rogers on bass and Gregory Hutchinson on drums. This time they dedicate themselves to interpret the genius composer Thelonious Monk’s music and spirit. The unusual constellation with alto saxophone, vibraphone, bass and drums create a different, challenging sound without the piano and gives the group wide open spaces for colorful improvisations. MONK VIBES reflects Thelonious multidimensional universe where simplicity and complexity come together in a beautiful, danceable and contrasting music.The album contains wild conversations, humor, calypso beat, odd time signatures, blues, beautiful ballads and a tonal language that sounds as skewed as obvious.

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REFLECTING TIME

feat. Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers & Gregory Hutchinson
DOWNBEAT:
“Kronkvist’s soloing is informed by drive and clarity of focus, and a settled-in technical facility that impresses without getting caught up in showboating for its own sake. And the group-think seems perfectly in tune…Reflecting Time is a fine piece of straightahead jazz-making, tasteful, historicist and fiery in the right degrees.”

Fredrik Kronkvist feat. Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers & Gregory Hutchinson

A strong and persuasive Scandi-Gotham pact is made on this second release by the command- ing, mainstreaming Swedish alto saxist Fredrik Kronkvist featuring the taut American rhythm section of pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gregory Hutchison (known, among other things, for their rapport as bandmates for Joshua Redman). Kronkvist is well studied and honestly expressive in the ways of American jazz, as a versatile horn player and sturdy penner of tunes in acknowledged jazz idioms from the New York side of the Atlantic.
He pays tribute to Mulgrew Miller with the neo-hard-bopping energy of the opener, “Meltdown Blues (Grew’s Blues),” and bows in the respectful direction of one of his heroes, Stanley Turrentine, on the medium-heat “Likely.” Attention is paid to the importance of vary- ing the set, album-wise: The bluesy swing swag- ger of the Adderley-esque “Cannonbalism” seg- ues into the uptempo intensity and rollercoaster head on “Straight To The Point,” in contrast to the following track, a luminously reharmonized take on “In A Sentimental Mood.” He channels the Turrentine/Adderley joie de vivre factor on the soft-edged closer, “Right Here Right Now.”
Throughout, Kronkvist’s soloing is informed by drive and clarity of focus, and a settled-in technical facility that impresses without getting caught up in showboating for its own sake. And the group-think seems perfectly in tune, perhaps partly because the recording was made in Copenhagen, after touring around Sweden and Denmark and honing the ensemble mesh. Whereabouts and heritages aside, Reflecting Time is a fine piece of straightahead jazz-making, tasteful, historicist and fiery in the right degrees.
—Josef Woodard DOWNBEAT
5/5 ***** DIG JAZZ, 5/5 ***** HallandsPosten, 5/5 ***** Ljusnan, 5/5 ***** Hudiksvalls Tidning, 5/5 ***** Ljusdals Posten, 5/5 ***** Söderhamns Kuriren.