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Jazz Library: Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen

13/08/2011

Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Library, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen

Alyn Shipton celebrates the work of the bass virtuoso Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen.

In an archive interview, Alyn Shipton talks to bass virtuoso Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen about his finest recordings.

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen was one of the most technically brilliant jazz double bassists from the 1960s to the early 2000s, until his sudden death from a heart attack in April 2005. Most famous for his work with Oscar Peterson, Niels-Henning also played with Joe Pass, Count Basie and many of the great American visitors to Europe. In this archive interview, he joins Alyn Shipton to select examples of his finest recordings.

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