{"product_id":"nature-boy","title":"Nature Boy","description":"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. \nGuess if I said yes!\nSince then I have walked winding musical paths and I still do. \nAs the pandemic started to spread, I got stranded at home in Skillinge Sweden from 13 March 2020. \nMany 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. \nI 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. \nI 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”.\nThe 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. \nI 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. \nAll 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. \nThey present a side of me that is always there, but not always to be seen. I hope you like it. \nLove, \nNils","brand":"Act","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47969517601049,"sku":"ACT9938","price":189.0,"currency_code":"SEK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0848\/8694\/6073\/products\/ACT9938.jpg?v=1738272993","url":"https:\/\/www.arken.se\/products\/nature-boy","provider":"Bokhandeln Arken","version":"1.0","type":"link"}