Kryton's 'Jazzing' it up at Van Gelder Studio!
Rudolph Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz.
Over more than half a century, he recorded several thousand sessions, with musicians including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock and Grant Green.
In the evenings after work, Van Gelder recorded local musicians who wanted 78-rpm recordings of their work.
From 1946, Van Gelder recorded in his parents' house in Hackensack, New Jersey, in which a control room was built adjacent to the living room, which served as the musicians' performing area.
The dry acoustics of this working space were partly responsible for Van Gelder's inimitable recording aesthetic
He worked with many different record companies, and recorded almost every session on Blue Note Records from 1953 to 1967.
Van Gelder continued to reside in Englewood Cliffs, until his death on August 25, 2016.
