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Rudy Van Gelder (born November 2, 1924, Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American recording engineer who specializes in jazz. Regarded as the most important recording engineer of jazz by some observers,〔("Rudy Van Gelder" ) by Steve Huey for AllMusic.com; accessed 31 July 2007〕 Van Gelder has recorded several thousand jazz sessions, including many widely recognized as classics, in a career spanning more than half a century. Van Gelder has recorded many of the great names in the genre, including Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Grant Green, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver, Donald Byrd, Kenny Burrell and many others. He worked with many record companies, but he is most closely associated with Blue Note Records. ==Early career== Van Gelder's interest in microphones and electronics can be traced to a youthful enthusiasm for amateur radio. A longtime jazz fan (his uncle, for whom Rudy was named, had been drummer for Ted Lewis's band in the mid-1930s), Van Gelder himself had lessons on trumpet.〔Dan Skea ("Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack: Defining the Jazz Sound in the 1950s" ), ''Musicological Studies'', 71/72, Spring 2001-Spring 2002, p.54-76, 56, 57〕 In 1946, Van Gelder recorded friends in his parents' Hackensack, New Jersey house, in which his parents had a special control room designed and built.〔〔 Davis, Miles, (with Quincy Troupe), (''Miles, the autobiography'' ), New York : Simon and Schuster, 1989. ISBN 0-671-63504-2. Cf. pp.176-177 on Rudy Van Gelder's recording studio in Hackensack.〕 "When I first started, I was interested in improving the quality of the playback equipment I had", Van Gelder commented in 2005. "I never was really happy with what I heard. I always assumed the records made by the big companies sounded better than what I could reproduce. So that's how I got interested in the process. I acquired everything I could to play back audio: speakers, turntables, amplifiers".〔Jeff Forlenza ("Who Cares About Quality? Rudy Van Gelder!" ) ''Mix'', 1 May 2005〕 One of Van Gelder's friends, baritone saxophonist Gil Mellé, introduced him to Blue Note Records producer Alfred Lion around 1952. Within a few years Van Gelder was in demand by many other independent labels based around New York, including Prestige Records and Savoy Records. Bob Weinstock, owner of Prestige, recalled in 1999, "Rudy was very much an asset. His rates were fair and he didn’t waste time. When you arrived at his studio he was prepared. His equipment was always ahead of its time and he was a genius when it came to recording."〔In "The Prestige Story" liner notes quoted by Ira Gitler ("Vangelder’s Studio" ), ''Jazz Times'', April 2001〕 The 1950s also saw Van Gelder do engineering and mastering work for the classical label Vox Records.〔Vox LP liner notes and dead wax (matrix) stamps and etchings, LPs STPL 58.520, STPL 514.070, STPL 512.730, STPL 510.330, STPL 511.110〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rudy Van Gelder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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