This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. I've got a whole bunch of Blue Note RVG remasters, and the quality varies all over the place. Van Gelder supposedly was talked into taking another listen to this music and remastering it using 24-bit technology as part of the label's 60th anniversary celebration. I'm not touching abother Rudy Van Gelder remaster ever. Parkertown The Art of Drumming. and with his parents' permission he sent away for the $2.98 "Home Re- Your IP was not banned by a person; it was banned by a firewall that uses an automated algorithm. Add to My Collection. Following the successful Rudy Van Gelder Remasters series, USM courtesy of Prestige Records will release a 20CD box set of classic recordings that represent some of the most essential listening for music fans and Jazz collectors. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Unable to add item to List. (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) Charles Earland 44.1. Rudy Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz. It's so subtle yet so significant and I feel these types of techniques are lost on today's recordings. Point of Departure was reissued on CD by Blue Note in 1988 and again in 1999 when recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder remastered the album, adding alternate takes of "New Monastery", "Flight 19", and "Dedication". The Rudy Van Gelder Editions-The Complete Collection. Listen to the drums on "Kashmir": he put Bonzo in an enormous room of the chateau where the sessions where recorded and, with only the drum kit and mikes, let Bonham create the most unique drum line ever recorded). Complete Catalog of the Rudy Van Gelder Editions, Click here for a complete list of recordings included in the Rudy Van Gelder Collection, Jazz Classics for Every Collection from the RVG Series. You might have the Hola VPN extension installed. Included are the best Blue Note sessions by legendary jazz masters--Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Grant Green, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter and many more. To make matters even worse, many of the titles in this series are remastered poorly, resulting in harshness and glare. You might have a buggy browser extension installed. If you don't think that you've done anything to warrant a ban, this is most likely the case. Rudy Van Gelder was, quite simply, the greatest recording engineer in jazz history. Pricing on the Blue Note RVGs is quite good though - $12 list, and most can be had online for $10 or less. Bless their hearts for that. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. For me, the engineering plays a huge part in the impact these albums have on me. Location: Hampton, VA. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The RVG Editions contain bonus tracks as well as rare session photographs and expert liner notes. This company sells your internet traffic to other people, meaning that other people can use your IP address and can break some of the above rules, causing you to be banned from this site. List of Rudy Van Gelder remasters? It is updated whenever I find new information. There's not much we can do about this right now; you'll have to turn off your VPN in order to continue using the site. Did you install a browser extension (such as Realplayer/Realdownloader) that helps you download YouTube videos or other content? Step 2 (optional): Enter any other comments/feedback here, Step 3: Enter your email address. Based on the below link I re-listened to my copy of “Walking” by Leroy Vinnegar. Regarded as the most important recording engineer of jazz by some observers, Van Gelder recorded several thousand jazz sessions, including many recognized as classics, in a career which spanned more than half a century. The complete series of Rudy Van Gelder Remasters has rewritten the rules, by the man who wrote them! Housed in gatefold cardboard sleeve. I don't want to hurt anyones feelings or make anyone mad, but...I am constantly amazed by the hype surrounding Rudy Van Gelder's recordings. Help me get that Rudy Van Gelder sound! There's a problem loading this menu right now. And does anyone know how many of these will be Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Prestige will release 10 remastered CDs next Tuesday as part of its Rudy Van Gelder Remasters series. This collection contains the most-important sessions ever recorded for Alfred Lion's Blue Note imprint and, arguably, the finest jazz ever recorded. You requested a very large number of pages in a very short time, causing problems for our server (this can happen if you hit 'refresh' over and over). Prestige Rudy Van Gelder Remasters [20 CD]. Hi people, I'm recording a jazz quartet (trumpet, piano, bass, drums) this evening in a large studio with a reasonable sounding live acoustic. Please try again. This is forbidden by our terms of service. It’s preposterous that one person can have played a part in so many of the best records of all time, yet, here it is, a list so long and so stuffed full of iconic names that it’s too much to take in all at once. Rudy Van Gelder was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on November 2, 1924. 1956 Preview Editors’ Notes After some great side work with Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and The Modern Jazz Quartet, as well as few excellent albums as a band leader, Sonny Rollins became a jazz giant with 1956’s Saxophone Colossus. If so, you'll need to disable it when using this site, as it spams the websites you visit with fake requests. Description provided by Wikipedia under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 4.0. Others are not so good. The Rudy Van Gelder Edition and Remasters Series This list is compiled from different sources. References are only from official sources i.e. The first time you look at the list of albums engineered and recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, the effect is almost overwhelming. The Van Gelder Studio is a recording studio at 445 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. His family lived in nearby Hackensack, where he grew up and went to school. Riverside's recordings are especially impressive for their three dimensional soundstages and natural sound. I have bought, and still buy, many of the titles in this series because I must have some of these treasured performances, regardless of sound quality, but much better jazz recordings from this period can be found on the Riverside, Verve, and Columbia labels (in that order). robertawillisjr, Jul 21, 2005 #4. You might be using a VPN. Overview ↓ Biography ↓ Songs ↓ Credits ↓ It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. A Newb--loving discoveries made & ones that await, Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2008. The Freedom Book (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) Booker Ervin 44.1. By the ’90s Van Gelder was in demand again to effect transfers to CD of many of the great sessions he had originally recorded – the Rudy Van Gelder (RVG) Series for Blue Note CD, and more recently, Concord’s Rudy Van Gelder Remasters selections from the original Prestige catalogue. :thumbsdn: I use my Eric Dolphy RVG remaster as an example of bad remastering when friends come along. Following the use of his parents' home at 25 Prospect Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey, for the original studio, Rudy Van Gelder (1924–2016) established the new location for his recording studio in 1959. You could have been banned by mistake. Idle Moments (Rudy Van Gelder Edition / Remastered 1999) Fans of ultra-pristine sound—the kind of guys who can spend an afternoon ranking matrix numbers on Steely Dan LPs—have been known to gripe about Van Gelder’s work. List of Rudy Van Gelder remasters? Rudy Van Gelder versus Roy DuNann 03-01-2020, 09:23 PM. Rudy Van Gelder. Having only recently begun to dig into the treasures of Jazz, I can't really offer and* opinion the way I can about Led Zeppelin or Rush or many other artists. When Alfred Lion and Francis Wolf, a pair of German-Jewish immigrants, founded a small record company in the late 30's, primarily to record their favorite musician, Sidney Bechet, little did they, let alone the public, suspect that they would eventually be associated with the best recordings by the best musicians--East Coast black players--and with the hippest of all jazz labels. (Speaking of the former, Jimmy Page is generally considered the greatest "miking" engineer ever. Blue Note introduced the highly-successful Rudy Van Gelder (RVG) Series in 1999, giving Van Gelder the opportunity to lend his precise hand and ears to the process of re-mastering in 24-bit many of the great Blue Note sessions that he himself had originally engineered. Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2007. Track 1 from "The Amazing Bud Powell" Track 2 from "Genius of Modern Music Volume One" The drummer sounded like Art Blakey, and I like Art so much—but, man, I don’t think you machine makes it because everything sounds blurry—the tenor player, Hank Mobley, sounds as if he’s trying to play like Sonny Rollins. At this moment, I'm listening to Grant Green's Solid, which sounds quite good. You can list to a Rudy Van Gelder from the 1950s that sounds like it was recorded today." At Ease With Coleman Hawkins (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) Coleman Hawkins 44.1. The legendary recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder is as integral a part of Jazz history as any of the musicians who created the music. (Required), You can request being unbanned by clicking. For the very first time, the Rudy Van Gelder Remasters 20CD box set brings a selection of these titles together for retrospective look at some of Rudy Van Gelders' finest output for Prestige, including legendary dates with jazz titans John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, and Thelonious Monk. When he was about twelve years of age, Van Gelder spotted an ad on the back of a comic book ("Make Your Own Records At Home!") In 2006 Concord launched the Rudy Van Gelder Remasters series - a collection of reissues of some of the most iconic albums in the Prestige catalogue, carefully remastered from the original analogue master tapes with 24-bit digital technology by the legendary and original recording engineer, Rudy Van Gelder. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Black Talk! Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. antonkk, Jul 21, 2005 #3. robertawillisjr Music Lover. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Or a list that you would recommend? Only if you believe in index funds; stock pickers look elsewhere. Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2006. I think the best RVG remasters are those made from pre-1955 sessions, for which he did some good research/restoration work. Rudy has brought new life to some of the greatest jazz recordings committed to disk, with his own hands. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. He was responsible for just about every session on the Blue Note label from 1953 to 1967 (among thousands of others),… Read Full Biography. lists printed in the albums in my collection and Blue Note paper catalogs. Blue Note has put all of the CDs in this series together in one set exclusively for Amazon.com. Rudy Van Gelder, pioneer recording engineer, creator of "the Blue Note sound" (and the many sounds that imitated it through the years), died at the age of 91 this week. Yes, he recorded a large number of historic and truly great performances, but unfortunately the technique he employed was severely flawed, resulting in flat two dimensional recordings that give no hint of depth - even on stereo recordings (how did he do that?). Recorded by Rudy van Gelder in 1959. The legendary recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder is as integral a part of Jazz history as any of the musicians who created the music. Is there an essential list of Van Gelder recordings? Listen free to Gene Ammons – Boss Tenor (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) (Hittin' the Jug, Close Your Eyes and more). Recorded By [Original Recording], Engineer, Remastered By – Rudy Van Gelder; Notes Mastered at Railroad Tracks GmbH, Kerpen Compiled and produced for release for Capitol Music, a division of EMI Music Germany GmbH & Co. KG All transfers from analog to digital were made at 24-bit resolution. In between the two is a missing decade or two. I've got the following mic's to play with: 2 x Coles 4038 2 x B&K 4003 2 x AKG 414 BULS 2 x DPA 4011 7 tracks (35:49). As the "go-to" engineer for Blue Note, Prestige, and Impulse in the 1950s and '60s, Van Gelder made clean, crisp, and meticulously well-balanced recordings from his home studio in Hackensack and later in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, contributing to classic after classic. Come Fly With Me (Mono Version) Frank Sinatra, Billy May & His Orchestra 96 192. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. The later ones (post-2004 or so) don't sound very different from the earlier McMaster remasters, but many earlier ones have extreme mastering manipulations (EQ, stereo seperation, reduced dynamics). An example is an album where the back of the LP jacket says “Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder” … We are hoping to eventually work on a solution for this when we have the resources to do so. You (or someone with the same IP address as you) might be using a script or program to download pages from this site automatically. Painful to the ears. AllMusic Rating. Your computer may be infected with malware or spyware that is making automated requests to our server and causing problems. Van Gelder, the original engineer on the sessions, remastered the 10 discs and new booklet essays were commissioned for the packages and appear alongside the original liner notes. Now its all available with one-click. If you are using a VPN, and other users of the same VPN are abusing the service, then you'll be automatically banned as well. Our automated banning policies are not perfect and sometimes too strict, and some IP addresses are banned by accident. Thorleif S. Hoff: 12/31/98 12:00 AM: Is there a complete list somewhere of the Blue Note titles that Rudy Van Gelder has remastered? Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Remastered in 24-Bit by Rudy Van Gelder from original lacquer discs and analog tapes. The elevation of their optometrist-hobbyist, with his simple approach to miking and mixing, to guru status among all recording engineers was another serendipitous event, culminating in many teenagers scouting out Van Gelder-engineered sessions as late as the '90's for use in their sampling. Please try again. 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