Rudy Van Gelder has passed away, RIP

Verve, ABC-Paramount, Impulse, Turnabout/Vox are a few others.

 

Thank you, Mr. RVG. Jazz owes you an enormous debt. Roll the tapes...

 

RIP

 

My appreciation of jazz increased exponentially after I learned his name. If I see VAN GELDER in the dead wax, it's a done deal. So long, Rudy!

 

RIP Mr. Van Gelder

Sincere condolences to his family and his friends. His name will certainly live on.

 

RIP RVG. A favourite producer.

 

RIP Rudy; jazz wouldn't have been the same without you.

 

RIP and big thanks!

 

Did not know, thanks! Chamber-music? Or any symphonic stuff? - i.e. with a full size orchestra?

 

A GIANT represnting the best of American culture!!!

 

He was a gift to jazz and recorded music. RIP, Rudy.

 

I'm not familiar enough with classical to comment with authority, but I have seen some '50s Vox LPs with RVG in the deadwax.

 

Oh my gosh...what a drag !

Over the last 3 years say...I've acquired too many RVG recordings to list. Those old 'living room' jazz sessions just can't be beat !

 

RIP, jazz giant.

 

RIP. I'm fairly certain that 90% of the CDs I bought in the late 1990s and early 2000s as my first, tentative steps into the world of jazz were his editions.

 

No. So much of the jazz I love was recorded by him.

 

When a jazz series has your name on it along with Miles, Coltrane and Monk, you know you hit it big

 

My sentiments.

 

As a self-made man, taking on the recording studio giants of New York City single-handedly in the 1950s in David-versus-Goliath fashion and showing them they had a thing or two to learn about recording from a Hackensack optometrist, Rudy Van Gelder stands to inspire us all as someone who grabbed life by the horns and lived it exactly the way he wanted to live it. He will never be forgotten.

Rudolph Van Gelder, recipient of the 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award, November 2, 1924 - August 25, 2016

This is the only footage I know of of Van Gelder at work in his heyday (clips with Van Gelder last about three minutes and start around 1:20:00):

 

We are blessed to always have this wonderful interview with Van Gelder, conducted by the eminent Michael Cuscuna:

 

RIP Mr. Gelder.

 

RIP RVG
Thanks for all the wonderful work you gave us.

 

A legend. Go easy bro.

 

Just last night I listened to Life Time, Spring and Out To Lunch. RIP

 

Rudy Van Gelder and Bobby Hutcherson in one week, RIP