Chords for NHØP | Jaco before Jaco...The GREATEST Bass Player You've NEVER Heard Of

A lot of you that are bass players watching my channel know the names of Victor Wooten and
Jaco Pastorius and John Myung and Billy Sheehan and all these all these really great great great
bass players.
But when I was growing up my dad used to listen to these records when he was home
on the weekends that had this monstrous bass player on it and I used to look at the records
and see this name was a really long name four names actually and the name was Niels Henning
Ørsted Pedersen or Knee Hop.
He's one of the greatest bass players to ever live.
He was
Danish, born in 1946 and he died in 2005.
And I wanted to make a video about him because
I was watching some stuff on YouTube live performances of him the other day and it just
blows my mind.
I heard him on record but [Bbm] because of YouTube you can see videos of him playing
and it's honestly mind-boggling.
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Listen again.
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He knows how smoking it [Em] is.
Check it out again.
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so grooving but that is so hard to do on an upright bass too.
You don't even
think you're not even thinking about it.
It's so effortless.
It's so flowing all those lines
of triplet. _ _ _ _
Man that is burning.
This next clip is of Niels playing with Sonny Rollins when he was
19 years old in 1965.
Let's [Eb] check it out.
_ They're playing Oleo by Sonny Rollins. _
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There's Sonny
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_ _ That's what I love [N] about jazz.
That right there.
The feel.
Those lines.
The swing of it.
It's just
bass and drums there.
Sonny Rollins is _ there saying yeah this is grooving.
People that don't
like jazz always say they just don't listen to the right jazz.
When you hear that if you don't feel
that groove that's as heavy as any groove right there.
For those of you wondering how he gets this
kind of speed and feel with his lines it's not just his left hand it's his right hand.
Check out this
next clip.
Look at his right hand.
He uses three fingers on the right hand to achieve this.
This is
he and Joe Pass playing Donna Lee.
You remember Donna Lee from my Jocko video and if you don't
you should watch my Jocko video but watch his right [Db] hand here.
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[Ab] _ _ [N] Here's a clip of Oscar Peterson talking about Niels after he [Bb] passed away.
_ [G] _ [Abm] Niels had a [N] natural _ _ affinity with the bass as opposed to some other players around the world
I'm calling names _ that you can say well he's playing the bass.
Niels didn't play the bass.
Niels was the bass.
Niels wasn't just a great accompanist and soloist.
Check out this piece
where he's actually playing an unaccompanied bass part.
It's beautiful. _ _ _ _
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[N] You know the crazy thing is
I'm 58 years old _ all these guys are gone.
All the guys that my dad loved to listen to. _
Niels, Ray Brown,
other bass player, Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass.
I mean literally every jazz musician that my dad loved.
Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, _ Charlie Christian.
_ _ I mean _ every player from Miles's group
in the 50s they're all gone.
Jimmy Cobb now.
_ _ Still the guys from the 60s group.
Wayne Shorter and
Ron Carter, Herbie and then the guys in the later 70s are still with us but _
you know there's not a lot of that history remaining of the great jazz musicians and
this music really reminds me of my dad. _ _
That's one of the reasons why I want to make this video on
Niels Henning or Stead Pettersen.
It reminds me of my dad and I listening to records together.
My favorite thing that we did my dad would get a new record he'd open it up put it on the turntable
and then he'd sit down in a chair across the room.
I'd sit down in another chair.
We had a very small
house small living room but he would sit there and he'd twirl his hair and listen.
One side would
we'd never say a word about it we just listen.
Side A would be over I'd get up I'd go flip it
over put on side B _ and that would get done and we wouldn't say a word then and then maybe we'd
talk about the record but maybe we wouldn't we just listen and my dad was constantly going out
and finding new records buying new jazz records _ and _ that was the thing that he and I did together.
That's what we shared we shared music and _ _ _ this really reminds me of him.
My dad would be 101
if he was with us today.
My dad passed away in 2004 and _ this is music that he made me really
appreciate and you know with all these players now that not being alive I want to do something
like make videos like this on my channel to at least keep it alive a little bit longer
to the people that watch here.
That's all for now.
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