Nils + Lindberg + Minick + ... Slide whistles...

[harrisonreed]

What's not to like? I never knew Nils played the bass, either! It might be a large tenor ... I can't really tell with the video quality, but certainly lower than I've heard him play.

[imsevimse]

Two of our best players in the same TV-show. I believe Nils is playing a large tenor here. I followed his carrer even before he got world famous and I have never seen him ever with a bass, so I do not think this is a bass either, but actually this was first time ever I've seen him with a large bore too. I do know he is classically trained but made a desicion early to choose to concentrate on a career of playing jazz and pop. I believe he subbed in the great orchestras when he first came to Stockholm in the 80ies before he got to busy. This clip must be very early in his carreer and his playing on the large bore is quite impressing so we can see he fits as a classical player anywhere. I know he do play classical music as I have heard him perform the Lars-Erik Larsson trombone concertino with strings on Swedish national TV and that was a great performance. This clip is from the 80ies when it still was rare that the music faculties excepted jazz musicians. It was at a time when jazz by some wasn't considered to be an equal artform to classical music. This is why they want Lindberg to play that jazz duo and Landgren to play classical in the Brandenburg Conerto duet. This was mindblowing to some old critics and considered strange. Classical musicians could not play jazz and vice versa, even though musicians themselves did not matter and switched between jazz and classical all the time. At music accademy though the classically trained still considered to be the "real" musicians and the jazzers where some strange odd goofballs with no future. As a teacher at the accademy could laugh and talk down at them and still be respectable. Not anymore. The change came in the middle 80ies about this time, and then jazz got the respect it deserves. The change was confirmed as they started to teach jazz at the Royal Accademy of Music in the early 80ies. Christian also changed the world as we know it (over here). Before him it was considered to be fair to state that the trombone wasn't a solo instrument, only good for a supporting role in an orchestra. That changed after the appearance of Christian Lindberg. I acctually never heard it said after he first entered the scene here, but prior to that I heard it more than once. People unprovoked very often felt the need to declare a trombone wasn't a good fit for a classical solo. Jazz, maybe but never to be an equal instrument to a violin or cello for example. That changed with Christian.

/Tom