Nod to The Legend · The engineers · 1924–2016
Rudy Van Gelder
Jazz engineer
He started recording in his parents' living room in Hackensack, then built his own studio in Englewood Cliffs in 1959. Blue Note, Prestige and Impulse! sessions, including Coltrane's A Love Supreme, were cut there.
Still heard: The clear, close, present jazz sound is his.
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