Rudy van Gelder

[MylesBAstor]

Nice piece from WSJ on Rudy!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...2802903306.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5

 

[Johnny Vinyl]

Thanks for that Myles! What about a potential successor? Is there anyone at all?

 

[NorthStar]

I don't know what it is Myles, but I simply cannot access your link!

 

[Wasatch]

Nice article.

 

[fas42]

The last paragraph is interesting:

Before departing, this writer tried once again to pry Mr. Van Gelder's techniques loose. "All I can tell you is that when I achieved what I thought the musicians were trying to do, the sound sort of bloomed. When it's right, everything is beautiful. I was always searching for that point."

The Mommas and Papas talked of the same thing in a doco about them: when their harmonies coalesced just right they said that Harvey, I think that was the name they used, had come into the room -- there was a quality in the overtones that made it sound like there was an extra person singing ...

Frank

 

[MylesBAstor]

I don't know what it is Myles, but I simply cannot access your link!

Weird, I tried it and it works

 

[NorthStar]

I finally got it but it took very close to 10 minutes to get there,
and still the scrolling was anything but smooth!

* Perhaps it has some' to do with the Wall Street Journal.
Or my PC on this Sunday afternoon here on Vancouver Island ...

Anyway, took a very long time, but finally Rudy has an excellent background experience in music recordings in the era of the 78 and 33 1/3 records.
The Jazz scene from the 40s, 50s, and 60s was surely addictive. ...And still is. :b

 

[MylesBAstor]

I finally got it but it took very close to 10 minutes to get there,
and still the scrolling was anything but smooth!

* Perhaps it has some' to do with the Wall Street Journal.
Or my PC on this Sunday afternoon here on Vancouver Island ...

Anyway, took a very long time, but finally Rudy has an excellent background experience in music recordings in the era of the 78 and 33 1/3 records.
The Jazz scene from the 40s, 50s, and 60s was surely addictive. ...And still is. :b

Think this sums up his philosophy (he's said this in different ways before) and maybe the difference between the recordings of the Golden Era and today:

"All I can tell you is that when I achieved what I thought the musicians were trying to do, the sound sort of bloomed.

For more info:

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

or this:

http://www.jazz.com/features-and-interviews/2009/4/11/in-conversation-with-rudy-van-gelder

or this:

http://www.preservationsound.com/

 

[NorthStar]

Thanks Myles for more links.

* Good music vibes is like a beautiful looking flower blooming right in front of you. :b

 

[slowGEEZR]

Thanks Myles. I've got so many albums recorded by Rudy van Gelder, it's nice to read a piece about how he started.

 

[MylesBAstor]

Thanks Myles. I've got so many albums recorded by Rudy van Gelder, it's nice to read a piece about how he started.

+1

At least as much as Rudy will reveal