Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen ("NHØP") was a Danish jazz double bassist, born 27 May 1946 in Osted out of Roskilde, 30 minutes west of Copenhagen, Denmark. He debuted, aged 15, at the legendary Jazzhus Montmartre, (Jazzhouse Montmartre, commonly known as just "Montmartre"), in central Copenhagen on New Year's Eve, 1961. And the rest is, as they say, history. He died in the Copenhagen western suburb Ishøj from heart failure, aged 58, on April 19, 2005.
