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Rudolph Van Gelder was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz. Over more than half a century, he recorded several thousand sessions, with musicians including Booker Ervin, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Smith, Art Blakey, Bud Powell, Lee Morgan, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green, and George Benson. Van Gelder worked with many different record companies, and recorded almost every session on Blue Note Records from 1953 to 1967. He worked on albums including Coltrane's A Love Supreme, Davis' Walkin', Hancock's Maiden Voyage, Rollins' Saxophone Colossus, and Silver's Song for My Father. Van Gelder is regarded as one of the most influential engineers in jazz. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Va...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
