Jazzwax rudy van gelder biography
In Part 1 of my five-part conversation with Rudy, the year-old engineer who on Saturday was honored with a Trustees Award Grammy for his lifetime....
Rudy Van Gelder, a New Jersey optometrist who in the late s extended his passion for ocular precision to professional recording and wound up becoming one.
Rudy Van Gelder
American recording engineer (1924–2016)
Musical artist
Rudolph Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz.
Over more than half a century, he recorded several thousand sessions, with musicians including Booker Ervin, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green and George Benson.
He worked with many different record companies, and recorded almost every session on Blue Note Records from 1953 to 1967.[1]
He worked on albums including John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, Miles Davis's Walkin', Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage, Sonny Rollins's Saxophone Colossus, and Horace Silver's Song for My Father.[2] He is regarded as one of the most influential engineers in jazz.[3]
Early life
Van Gelder was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
His pare
