Interview Film in English by Jon Welch & Son Nguyen (ca. 190 Minutes; Download Only – ca. 664 MB). Available in the Online Store at www.jonwelchmusic.com. Nils Landgren is one of the most successful and versatile solo trombone artists and bandleaders of our age. With 23 solo albums to date, he has traversed a musical landscape that reaches from Swedish folk music duos to jazz ballad recordings, from stone cold funk sets to lush symphony orchestra collaborations. He is a highly sought-after guest at many European jazz festivals such as Jazz Baltica and Montreux and has recorded and performed with such artists as Quincy Jones, Thad Jones, Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker, Al Jarreau, Herbie Hancock, Chaka Kahn, ABBA and Wyclef Jean. His steady projects include the Nils Landgren Funk Unit, the Crusaders with Joe Sample (he is the worthy successor of Wayne Henderson), the Swedish Bohulsan Big Band and he has a long-standing relationship with the North German NDR Big Band for whom he presently serves as artistic advisor. In this film Nils traces his musical journey from his childhood in a Swedish steel town to his breaking out of Scandanavia onto the wider European stage and then beyond to the US and Asia. He recounts his vast recording experiences and his ultimate attraction to groove-oriented music. Always in hand, Nils has been playing his signature red Yamaha trombone for over twenty years now (he’s the man with the “red horn”) and explains in detail why this dual bore special …