Jazz Articles about Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen

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Michel Petrucciani - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen: Petrucciani NHOP 10th Anniversary

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 19, 2009

Di Michel Petrucciani, scomparso prematuramente nel 1999, se ne parla ormai poco o nulla. La pubblicazione di questo doppio disco è l'occasione giusta per ricordarne l'immenso talento, fatto di poesia, lirismo, incisività ritmica. Una stella del firmamento jazzistico europeo, che nelle incisioni francesi ha lasciato forse il più significativo testamento musicale. Un gigante del pianismo jazz, in grado di rivaleggiare - insieme a Solal - con i colleghi d'oltreoceano. Ha fatto benissimo la Dreyfus a tirar fuori dagli archivi una ...

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Sahib Shihab: Sahib Shihab and the Danish Radio Jazz Group

by Douglas Payne
November 5, 2008

Sahib Shihab (1925-1989) played alongside such greats as Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Tadd Dameron, and Art Blakey in the 1940s and 50s. But in order to escape the racial problems in the United States and take advantage of the increased appreciation and opportunities for jazz abroad, he left for Europe and settled in Copenhagen in 1962. He became one of the featured soloists in the Clarke-Boland Big Band and joined the relatively young Danish Radio Jazz Group around the same ...

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Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen: The Unforgettable NHOP Trio Live

by Chris May
August 24, 2007

Like the British pianist Stan Tracey, the Danish bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen served a lengthy apprenticeship accompanying US stars playing the European club circuit. In the 1960s in London, Tracey was the pianist in the Ronnie Scott Jazz Club's house band, while Pedersen held down a similar gig at Copenhagen's Montmartre Jazzhus. Tracey and Pedersen benefited greatly from the experiences--as did the US tourists, most of whom were quick to recognize both men's world-class talents.

Tracey abandoned back-up ...

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Didier Lockwood: Tribute To Stephane Grappelli

by Mike Neely
September 1, 2000

French violinist Didier Lockwood’s new CD brings together three of Europe’s outstanding jazz musicians in a lively Tribute To Stephane Grappelli. The classically trained Lockwood is accompanied by the Danish bass master Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen and noted French guitarist Bireli LaGrene in a set that would do Grappelli proud.

Lockwood is the recipient of the Waldrop violin, first presented to Grappelli in 1937. The famed French violinist Michel Waldrop initially presented the violin to Grappelli in recognition of him ...

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Didier Lockwood: Tribute To Stephane Grappelli

by AAJ Staff
August 1, 2000

After his excursions into modal jazz, rock, fusion and bop, Didier Lockwood has come home again to revel in the music of jazz violin great Stéphane Grappelli with whom Lockwood performed early in his career.In the process, Lockwood is exposing his astounding talent on a difficult instrument seldom heard in jazz to a broader audience. That audience can't help but sit up and take notice.With the aid of just-as-astounding Biréli Lagrène on guitar (assuming the Django ...