RIP Rudy Van Gelder

Posted by: Richard D on 25 August 2016

Analog Planet has reported the passing of the highly renowned recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder at the age of 91. His legacy will live for ever!

Posted on: 26 August 2016 by Bert Schurink

Yes he has done great work in the critical years of jazz recording.....

Posted on: 26 August 2016 by GraemeH

Iconic name in Jazz. May he rest in peace.

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Posted on: 26 August 2016 by Brilliant

What a legend. How often I looked for 'RVG' or VAN GELDER in the dead wax of jazz LPs, and how happy when I found one! RIP Mr Van Gelder and thank you for a great legacy.

Posted on: 27 August 2016 by bishopla

Rudy Van Gelder in 1988 at the home studio that he designed himself in Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

 

RIP...RVG

Posted on: 27 August 2016 by DrMark

Been to Englewood Cliffs many times - had a good friend who left crummy Staten Island and moved there in high school so I would go visit  - many wealthy and famous people live/lived there (or at least had homes there - Gloria Swanson, Diana Ross, Sun Myung Moon), but I never knew he was there.

I am told my maternal grandfather had a fair bit of land in that area in the 1920s, but lost it all in the Great Depression - had he not my life might be a bit different than it is now! (Could afford better Naim - lol!)

Posted on: 27 August 2016 by Acoustics Guy

My mother-in-law used to work for Rudy in the 1950s. Lots of stories about the jazz greats she met and attended to. At 89 she still plays a mean sax.