RVG - RIP

[Chuck Nessa]

Nothing more to add.

Edited August 25, 2016 by Chuck Nessa

[JSngry]

End of more than an era.

RIP

[Mark Stryker]

I don't think any non-musician has ever had a bigger influence on the literal sound of jazz than Rudy. When we think of "jazz," for so many of us the sound in our heads, the Platonic ideal of the art form, is a Blue Note LP engineered by RVG.

Edited August 25, 2016 by Mark Stryker

[sidewinder]

Very sorry to hear this. It has been a truly dreadful couple of weeks with regard to fatalities amongst the jazz greats.

I will spin a couple of his fantastic recordings tonight. RIP RVG.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Aw hell... I knew this was coming soon but it still sucks.

Thanks for all those great recordings Rudy.

[jazzbo]

RIP Rudy. Thanks.

[Justin V]

I think that most jazz fans would kill to have been a fly on the wall at Rudy Van Gelder's studio.  Thank you for your contributions, Mr. Van Gelder, and rest in peace.

[soulpope]

Rudy Van Gelder - thank you for the music and R.I.P ....

[JSngry]

Now can the secret to that piano sound be revealed?

[felser]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Now can the secret to that piano sound be revealed?

91 years old, quite an an amazing life.  Not just another dentist.  Much thanks for his work and passion.

[Tom 1960]

Sad news to all jazz lovers. Thanks Rudy with providing us will all this great music. Your memory lives on.

[Chuck Nessa]

Here is a shot of the ceiling in Englewood Cliffs.

[Dan Gould]

1 hour ago, felser said:

91 years old, quite an an amazing life.  Not just another dentist.  Much thanks for his work and passion.

I think it was optometrist.

RIP Rudy and thanks for all the great-sounding recordings.

[Mark Stryker]

Ben Sidran's essential 1985 "Sidran on Record" radio interview with the late Rudy Van Gelder.

"What we were doing was important at the time. We knew we were making good records.The music was important. It was important to the producers that I worked for at the time. It was important to me, and I felt that it was more important than the poitics of the day or anything else that that was going on. What we were doing would really have a lasting significance. I really had that impression at the time."

http://bensidran.com/conversation/talking-jazz-rudy-van-gelder

 

[Joe]

I hate 2016.

[Cyril]

Rest in Peace, Rudy Van Gelder.

And thanks for all the great music !!!

[Rooster_Ties]

Can somebody remind me of all the various labels he recorded for the most regularly back in the 50's, 60's, and early 70's??  Blue Note and Impulse, of course, but I know there were others -- some of which I could half-remember right (and as many that I would probably get wrong).

Could anyone hazard a guess at a list of said labels, in some rough order based of the number of albums he did for each (over his first 20-odd years in the business)?  Trying to get my head re-wrapped around his total involvement in all that he did, especially back in the day.  And maybe, then, (roughly) the years he was associated with each?

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

RIP

[Cyril]

1 hour ago, Rooster_Ties said:

Can somebody remind me of all the various labels he recorded for the most regularly back in the 50's, 60's, and early 70's??  Blue Note and Impulse, of course, but I know there were others -- some of which I could half-remember right (and as many that I would probably get wrong).

He also worked with Prestige Records and Savoy Records

[sidewinder]

and in later years - Mosaic..

[Mark Stryker]

1 hour ago, Cyril said:

He also worked with Prestige Records and Savoy Records

He also created the CTI studio sound --  and he recorded for Verve and A&M too.   

Edited August 25, 2016 by Mark Stryker

[JSngry]

Muse, High Note, etc.

[alankin]

[soulpope]

Uptown ....

[Cyril]

+ Reservoir, Sharp Nine, N2K.