Rudy Van Gelder

[capnreverb]

I try to put my mind around all the the things this guy recorded, and it is allmost unfathonable. How can just one guy be behind the mics and boards for all these great recordings? From all those Blue Note's to "A Love Supreme". Is the dude just plain and simply God? I mean, what the fuck? It's like having one guy record the Beatles, Stones, Zep, Floyd, etc........ The guy needs his own postage stamp, washington monument, face on a twenty etc.... It really is allmost incomprehensable that one person was behind all these landmark recordings. They all sound so freakin' perfect. Man, no fuckin bullshit, just 100% spot on every 100% the fuckin time. The dude batted .999! No one, no one has his pedigree! Sorry for this ramble, but I'm just in awe. I got a feelin' this guy could of used any mics and gotten the same results.

[Paj]

Ditto that---my major hero when it comes to jazz recording. I have some friends and acquaintances who are regulars at ECS and the next trip up there, I'm there, to soak in everything (not like I haven't already pumped every piece of info out of them that I could). If my next group project pans out, we've got to do a session there, no matter what the hassle or cost.

Paj
8^)

P.S.: As I write, I'm listening to "Stolen Moments" from Oliver Nelson's "Blues And The Abstract Truth"---guess who did the session.

[boingoman]

The guy was amazing. I read he used to put up fake mics sometimes at sessions so nosy nates couldn't copy what he was doing.

[Big Kenny]

Put Thelonius Monk on the map, which put jazz in the hands of a lot of people. Cannonball and Freddie Hubbard were some of his best IMHO
The ranges of artists this guy captures (and still does, he remasters some stuff for Blue Note) is truly wonderful. We are blessed indeed