Erling is Erling, what more can one say? Here with his very special Dark Side Orchestra book, inspired by Mingus' Blues and Roots band/instrumentation. It has been a dream of his to get the Nonet back into the limelight after too many years on the back-burner. With its six horns and three rhythm it sounds like a large band and mooooves like a small band. Kroner Formula Two. Audacity bar none.

Also plays with the Erling Kroner New Music Orchestra and Erling Kroner Folk Dance Organization/TENTET. A regular sub also with Niels Jørgen Steen's Monday Night Big Band, plays with The Orchestra and many other agroupations. Yet another one of the young, upcoming generation showing much more than just promise. Plays great lead and is a burningly creative soloist who can hold his own with the best - as he does in this band.

Also is in charge of The Orchestra.

Educated from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory, prolific sideman and band leader. A main-stay in Kroner groups since 1996 (Erling Kroner Dream Quintet and Beijbom Kroner Big Band). Also with Niels Jørgen Steen's Monday Night Big Band, ToneArt Ensemble, Almost Big Band, singer Helga Søsted's group a.m.o. Currently co-leading the quartet Play Ground with pianist Marie Louise Schmidt. Also runs the octet Bévort's Special Edition, providing music, arrangements and lyrics.
Awards: the Ben Webster Price (2001) and the JASA Price (2003).
Pernille is a very original jazz soloist with a composer's mind. Her work on the soprano sax stands out with a sound and command rarely equalled.
Read more about Pernille here: www.pbevort.dk

Born April 13 1975 in Aarhus, Denmark. Grew up in Aalborg where he graduated in 1998 on saxophone from the Academy of Music in Northern Jutland. Moved to Copenhagen in 1999 after having studied one semester at The New School in New York. Has studied with Johan Borgström, Christian Vuust, Eric Alexander and George Garzone. Plays with his own quartet, HAVL, Niels Jørgen Steen's Monday Night Big Band and Ib Glindemann Big Band.
Selected CD releases: Harbeck /Agesen/Johnsen/Landors: Harbeck/Agesen/Johnsen/Landors, Cope Records, Beijbom Kroner Big Band: Tango for Bad People, Sweet Silence Records, Ib Glindemann Big Band: 50 Years on Stage, Mega Records, Swinging Link: Swing is our Privilege, Music Mecca and Birgitte Laugesen: Birgitte Laugesen and Friends, Intermusic

'Big Ed' moved from USA to Sweden in the early seventies, settling first in Stockholm, where he played with Lars Beijbom's Small Potatoes (including Erling Kroner and Bertil Löfgren a/o). Later moved to Lund. Was a main-stay with Beijbom Kroner Big Band (3 cd's), co-leads Epstein-Kroner Bari-Bone Connection, subs occasionally with Niels Jørgen Steen's Monday Night Big Band. This quiet, bespectacled little giant plays some ferrocious baritone and is a master balladeer. His cd Art of Survival from the early nineties features his son, Peter Epstein, on saxes and has a guest-appearance by Erling Kroner. Also plays with the Erling Kroner New Music Orchestra. Plays all the saxes, however concentrates all his energies on the bari in this band. He is carrying on the legacy of baritone greats of yester-year like Harry Carney, Pepper Adams and Serge Chaloff.

Kjeld was part of the original EKDSO alongside Morten Højring and when he had eyes to do it, there was no question about his participation in this new edition of the EKDSO. Pairing the two distinctly different trombone-styles of Kroner and Ipsen is a rare treat. Kjeld and Erling go way back to the early sixties, friends and compinches ever since, playing together back then with a.o. Finn von Eyben's Jazz Workshop. Ipsen lived for many years in the States, playing with a multitude of New Yorker groups from Eddie Palmieri to Gloria Gaynor to Buddy Morrow. Has been back in Denmark since the late eighties and played with the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra under the baton of Bob Brookmeyer and more in the nineties. Presently works with Niklas Campagnol, recording with Mike Stern and Bob Mintzer and is heavily involved in some very interesting experimentations with rock-guitar-composer-whizz Peter Peter.

Morten joined the EKNMO for the Mariposa Tango Project in October 2006. He has played with various Kroner groups throughout the years, from the EKQ to the Dark Side Orchestra and the Tentet. He has been a main-stay with Niels Jørgen Steen's A-Team since its inception. He is a very original guitarist who has developed a unique fingering technique on the guitar and also tunes his guitar differently from the norm, using heavy gauge strings for sake of sound. The 'little' giant colors the band, comps, pushes and urges the band ahead and plays some amazingly original solos.

Mr. Space Bass played with the Erling Kroner Folk Dance Organization/TENTET for 10 years (1979-1989) and the Erling Kroner Quintets of the same period. Like Morten Højring a main-stay/first call of Kroner's musical universe in the eighties. But he never played with the EKDSO before this new edition. Klavs and Dennis simply love playing together, so the burn is on.

Any Kroner band's beat, heart, anchor, has never gotten the acclaim due him. He was awarded the Fuen Jazz Musician of the Year in 1994, eventually moved to Copenhagen where he had a hard time breaking through, basically because he doesn't play like your average European drummer. Much more Africa and New York in his playing. Doesn't ride on the bass player but sets the groove, is the time, and poly-rhythms the band like a propeller. Think Elvin, Richmond. Loves playing latin, is getting his tango-chops together and plays jazz drums deep into the pans. Wood, skin, metal. Also plays with Epstein-Kroner Bari-Bone Connection and with the Erling Kroner New Music Orchestra. Late nineties he had a quintet with Bent Jædig and Erling Kroner as the front-line. Short-lived but very good. He also reads extremely well. Was part of Niels Jørgen Steen's band performing the very demanding ballet-music of Wynton Marsalis at the Royal Theatre some years back, alongside Erling Kroner, Mårten Lundgren and Bob Rockwell a/o.