Jazz’s golden ears has died, at 91
mainRudy Van Gelder, engineer on most of the Blue Note Records catalogue, has passed away at a good age.
He built a control room in 1946 in his parents’ home in Hackensack, NJ, and never looked back.
Thelonious Monk duly paid tribute to Hackensack.
van Gelder also did work for VOX mastering classical recordings for that company.