Jazz, the only truly American art form, is first and foremost an improvisational medium. The very idea of producing a jazz recording with any agenda beyond taking an accurate audio snapshot might seem ...

Rudy Van Gelder, legendary jazz engineer and operator of the Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey studio where classic LPs by John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy and Wayne Shorter were recorded, died Thursday at his ...

Walking into Rudy Van Gelder’s studio is akin to setting foot inside a magnificent cathedral from the world of jazz. There is this “wow” moment as you glance up at the peaked wooden ceiling towering ...

I had the good fortune, while still a teen-ager, in the nineteen-seventies, to catch some of the leading lights of modern jazz—including Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, ...

Audio engineer, who helped Blue Note Records become a major force in jazz music, worked with John Coltrane, Lee Morgan and Herbie Hancock Rudy Van Gelder, the audio engineer who helped shape the sound ...