Rudy Van Gelder

[Dave James]

Here's a lengthly piece I came across on a website called Jazz Studies On Line. lt can get a bit technical at times but, overall, I found it interesting and informative.

http://jazzstudiesonline.org/files/RudyVanGelder.pdf

Up over and out.

[AllenLowe]

I actually prefer the early living room recordings to the ones in the place he built - the later ones are sonically more Rudy than the musicians, I always felt - piano too dark, too much stereo separation, too much coloration of the horns -