RVG - RIP

[Chuck Nessa]

Some early Riversides and a bunch of classical for Vox.

[mikeweil]

R.I.P. - if the average jazz fan knew the name of a jazz engineer, it was Rudy Van Gelder. The symbol of his trade. The name of a sound.

[rostasi]

RVG Obit at Fact

[BFrank]

Major jazz mover in the 2nd half of the 20th Century: RIP RVG.

[danasgoodstuff]

Thank you Rudy.

[CJ Shearn]

Damn, RIP...............  Knew it was coming too, horrible month, my mom, Bobby Hutcherson and RVG.  Will his studio be operated by Maureen Sickler now? since he passed on the trade of his work to her?

[mjzee]

OMG.  RIP.  And thanks for the music.

[Soulstation1]

RIP Mr. RVG

 

[paul secor]

The end of an era. Too many eras ending lately.

RIP, Mr. Van Gelder.

[bluesoul]

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/celebrities/index.ssf/2016/08/rudy_van_gelder_jazz_recording_engineer_obituary.html

http://www.northjersey.com/news/rudy-van-gelder-hackensack-native-and-influential-recording-engineer-dies-at-91-1.1650398

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/arts/music/rudy-van-gelder-audio-engineer-who-helped-define-sound-of-jazz-on-record-dies-at-91.html

Edited August 25, 2016 by bluesoul

[stephenrr]

What a career!  Thank you doesn't seem to come close.  We're losing giants at too great a rate to honor them properly.  Good night, RVG.

[Hardbopjazz]

It's a true end of the golden age of jazz with Rudy's passing. RIP Rudy. Thanks for the music you made sound so great.

[bluesoul]

WKCR Memorial Broadcast

"Beginning at 6:00 PM this evening, WKCR will dedicate thirty continuous hours to airing some of the thousands of jazz sessions recorded over more than half a century by one of the best recording engineers the world has ever known: Rudy Van Gelder."

[sonnyhill]

Rudy Van Gelder will live forever through some of the greatest, most influential, music that has ever been made.

[Steve Reynolds]

Didn't expect this loss to hit me so emotionally.

over the last few years, I find I don't listen to that much jazz of the era in which Rudy Van Gelder made his enormous mark.

BUT the memories of my discovery of that music and what has followed over the past few decades are priceless. Reading and absorbing the stories and the music - searching in the pre-Internet days for the tough to find OJCs & Blue Notes and looking for the RVG name and recording location - did they move to Englewood Cliffs yet? The discussions on all the jazz boards, the friends I've made and the music I've seen and heard since / all of that not possible without hearing those recordings first and thirsting to find the next one with that sound - oh that sound.

peace and blessings 

RIP, sir

Edited August 26, 2016 by Steve Reynolds

[Michael Weiss]

11 hours ago, JSngry said:

Now can the secret to that piano sound be revealed?

Posted about this on FB today, but from direct experience i can tell you that he had a mic (wrapped in felt? not sure) not stuffed inside, but directly over, maybe by an inch, one of  the center holes in the sound board plate. That close miking had a lot to do with it.

10 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Here is a shot of the ceiling in Englewood Cliffs.

I heard he put mics up there.

[six string]

R.I.P. Rudy.  You deserve the rest.  If I took out all the Van Gelder lps out of my collection, I wouldn't have much.  He was definitely there when it mattered.  His dedication is inspiring.

[brownie]

RVG can now take a  well deserved rest. Can't think of any non-musicIan who did so much (and so well! ) for the  music! 

[BFrank]

Just a VERY small sampling.

 

 

[tomatamot]

R.I.P.

[JohnS]

RIP Rudy.  Thanks for everything.

[fasstrack]

Memorial right now on WKCR FM...

https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Edited August 26, 2016 by fasstrack

[Eric]

21 hours ago, Mark Stryker said:

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

 

Love it.  And this was in 1985, before the rest of the world (well our world) was saying it.  A professional career very, very well done.

[imeanyou]

"Hey Rudy, put this on the record.....ALL of it"

Well perhaps he didn't quite get there but what he helped to give us, gave me and many others immeasurable pleasure.

Heartfelt thanks, Rudy.

[sidewinder]

Phil Shaap is playing some great RVG recordings on his show at the moment - not that he could go far wrong with the selection available. Enjoying this tribute..