40 years ago my international career started for real when I got a call from the musical mastermind Thad Jones, asking me to join his new big band project ”Ball of Fire” in Milan, Italy. Guess if I said yes! Since then I have walked winding musical paths and I still do.

As the pandemic started to spread, I got stranded at home in Skillinge Sweden from 13 March 2020. Many many months later, I can present something I’ve never done before, a solo performance. Only me, myself and my trombone in a beautiful-sounding church not far away from where I live with my wife Beatrice, Ingelstorp Kyrka. I do not really know exactly when the idea got stuck in my head but I guess around Christmas 2020. Having spent a strange but personally wonderful year being at home, I suggested a solo recording to my wife, and she thought it was a great idea. I called the priest in the church, named Maria, and she immediately said ”Yes, go for it. I will see to it that the church is heated and ready for you”.

The first time was almost a shock. Such a beautiful sound, making the tone of my trombone just fly through time and space. Beatrice and I looked at each other in silence, knowing that this can become something special. I picked a wide range of songs and hymns for these occasions and it felt very special to be able to record it in a wonderful room with only one person in the audience, the one I love the most.

All the songs have a special meaning to me, whether they are songs I sang in church as a child or just picked them up on the way. One is even written by one of my ancestors, Israel Kolmodin. They present a side of me that is always there, but not always to be seen. I hope you like it.
Love,
Nils

1. Tänk Att Få Vakna/Morning Has Broken
2. Nature Boy
3. A Minor
4. In a Sentimental Mood
5. Solitude
6. Värmlandsvisan
7. Allt Under Himmelens Fäste
8. Der Mond Ist Aufgegangen
9. Nu Sjunker Bullret
10. Din Klara Sol Går Åter Opp
11. Som Stjärnor Små
12. Den Blomstertid Nu Kommer
13. Jag Lyfter Ögat Mot Himmelen
14. Sov På Min Arm