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Deep Groove Mono: Major Update: RVG Discography Is Now “Complete”. “For many years the discography was completely missing Verve, CTI, and all the latter-day independent jazz labels [Rudy] Van Gelder recorded for. It brings me great joy to say that everything is now included, and the total number of session dates has ballooned from 1,891 to 3,370.”

Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins On Impulse!, 1965 on Impulse

https://goatless.org/2026/06/10/sonny-rollins-sonny-rollins-on-impulse-1965-on-impulse

Bill Evans and Jim Hall, Intermodulation, 1966 on Verve

https://goatless.org/2026/05/31/bill-evans-and-jim-hall-intermodulation-1966-on-verve

Mose Allison, Back Country Suite, 1957 on Prestige

https://goatless.org/2026/05/18/mose-allison-back-country-suite-1957-on-prestige

Horace Silver Quintet, Silver’s Serenade, 1963 on Blue Note

https://goatless.org/2026/04/25/horace-silver-quintet-silvers-serenade-1963-on-blue-note

Freddie Roach, Good Move!, 1964 on Blue Note

Freddie Roach’s third album as a leader, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliff with Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Eddie Wright (guitar), and Clarence Johnston (drums).

Tunes include “It Ain’t Necessarily So” (Gerswhin) and Pastel (Garner) as well as “T’Ain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That You Do It).” Great soul-jazz organ here.

My copy—via Amazon—is the Tone Poet Series reissue from 2024, with lacquer cut by Kevin Gray and pressing at RTI. As you can expect from this series it’s a great sounding pressing with lovely packaging.

Big John Patton, Let ‘Em Roll, 1966 on Blue Note

Patton joined by Otis Finch (drums), Grant Green (guitar), and Bobby Hutcherson (vibes), and recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Fantastic Hammond B3 driven mid-sixties Blue Note jazz – can’t go wrong.

My copy—direct from Amazon, which often has deals on these—is the Blue Note Tone Poet series reissue from 2023, with lacquer cut by Kevin Grey and Joe Harley and pressing at RTI.

Lou Donaldson, Midnight Creeper, 1968 on Blue Note

Donaldson joined here by Leo Morris (drums), George Benson (guitar), Lonnie Smith (organ) and Blue Mitchell (trumpet). Very groovy soul-jazz LP from late sixties Blue Note.

Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliffs and produced by Francis Wolff.

My copy—via Amazon—is the Blue Note Tone Poet reissue from 2024, mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed at RTI.

Booker Ervin, The Freedom Book, 1964 on Prestige

Sixth full-length with Ervin as leader, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1963, for Prestige. Ervin is joined here by Jaki Byard (piano), Richard Davis (bass), and Alan Dawson (who was a drum instructor at Berklee in Boston) (drums).

My copy—via a private sale—is the 2023 Analogue Productions / Craft Recordings reissue, in the Prestige Stereo Series. It was mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed at QRP on 180g vinyl.

Zum Ausklang des Arbeitstages etwas #Jazz mit #TheHoraceSilverQuintet erschienen 1959 bei #BlueNote als #Mono Pressung.
#nowplaying #vinyl #vinylrecords #Bop #HardBop #RudyVanGelder #RVG #EugeneTaylor #LouisHayes #HoraceSilver #JuniorCook #BlueMitchell

Blue Mitchell, Down With It, 1966 on Blue Note

Another fantastic Blue Note jazz LP, this came out originally in 1966. It features Mitchell (trumpet) with Junior Cook (tenor sax), Chick Corea (piano), Gene Taylor (bass), and Aloysius Foster (drums), and was recorded at Van Gelder Studios in New Jersey.

My copy- via a private sale – is the Blue Note Tone Poet reissue from 2024, cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and pressed at RTI. Great sound and packaging.

Herbie Hancock, Inventions and Dimensions, 1964 on Blue Note

Hancock is joined by Paul Chambers, Willie Bobo and Chihuahua Martinez—though it’s not really what you’d call a Latin jazz album so much as post-bop or modal.

Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at his Englewood Cliffs studio.

My copy—direct from Blue Note—is the 2019 Blue Note 80 Vinyl Series reissue mastered for vinyl by Kevin Gray and pressed at Optimal Media GmbH – sounds great.

Wayne Shorter, Schizophrenia, 1969 on Blue Note

Eleventh Wayne Shorter album, with Herbie Hancock, Curtis Fuller, Ron Carter, James Spaulding, and Joe Chambers. Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, with Francis Wolff producing.

This is transitional between post-bop and free jazz – looser and closer to the edge than my normal taste, but worth a listen for anyone interested in post-bop or Shorter and Hancock.

My copy as part of the Story of Blue Note Records VMP Anthology, 2024 reissue.

Lou Donaldson, The Natural Soul, 1963 on Blue Note

Another album from the excellent Story of Blue Note Records VMP Anthology, this came five years after Blues Walk, and features Grant Green, John Patton, Ben Dixon, and Tommy Turrentine (brother of Stanley).

Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in his Englewood Cliffs NJ studio and produced by Alfred Lion.

My copy is part of the 2024 reissue of the 2019 Vinyl Me Please Anthology.

Dexter Gordon, Dexter Calling, 1962 on Blue Note

Released in mono in 1961 and in stereo in 1962, this was Gordon’s second album on Blue Note, following quickly after Doin’ Allright and five years after Daddy Plays the Horn.

Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at his studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Gordon is joined by Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, and Kenny Drew. Liner notes by Leonard Feather, produced by Alfred Lion.

My copy is from the VMP Anthology The Story of Blue Note Records, which was first issued in 2019 and then reissued in 2024 – my copy is from that second edition.

Momente des Müßiggangs beherrscht kein anderer so gut auf der Gitarre wie Grant Green. Anspieltip: Idle Moments
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idle_Moments
#jazz #BlueNote #RudyVanGelder

Was kommt dabei heraus wenn Stanley Turrentine sein Saxophon Vibrato erklingen lässt und seine Ehefrau Shirley Scott auf der Hammond B3 antwortet? Eines der besten Alben der Jazzgeschichte in Sachen Saxophon und Hammond Orgel. Anspieltip: God Bless the Child
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(Stanley_Turrentine_album) #jazz #BlueNote #RudyVanGelder

Stan Getz & Bill Evans, Previously Unreleased Recordings, 1974 on Verve

Sometimes just referred to as Stan Getz & Bill Evans, this was recorded in 1964 but not released until 1974. Ron Carter (A side) and Richard Davis (B side) on bass, with Elvin Jones on drums. Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Englewood Cliffs NJ and produced by Creed Taylor.

There’s a whole series of “Previously Unreleased Recordings” advertised on the rear jacket. Beautiful sounding LP well packaged.

My copy—via Worcester Record Riot—is of the 2024 UMG/UMe reissue, overseen by Chad Kassem from Acoustic Sounds.

#1960s #1974 #BillEvans #ChadKassem #CreedTaylor #ElvinJones #EnglewoodCliffsNJ #Reissue #RichardDavis #RonCarter #RudyVanGelder #StanGetz #UMe #UMG #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WorcesterRecordRiot

John Coltrane, A Love Supreme, 1965 on Impulse!

Accompanying Coltrane here are McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums. Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack in December 1964 but not released until 1965.

Arguably Coltrane’s masterpiece (perhaps second to Giant Steps?) and still one of his best selling albums (and platinum certified by RIAA). The chant of “a love supreme” during the opening phase “Acknowledgement” is Coltrane himself, apparently overdubbed 19 times – atypical for the kind of recordings Van Gelder was doing in the mid-sixties.

My copy is a 2021 reissue in orange vinyl – Impulse! orange – that was sold in multiple retailers (I got it via the uDiscover music online store owned by UMG).

#1960s #1965 #ElvinJones #Impulse #jazz #JimmyGarrison #JohnColtrane #McCoyTyner #RudyVanGelder #uDiscoverMusic #UMG #vinyl #vinylcollection

Thelonious Monk, The Unique Thelonious Monk, 1956 on Riverside

Monk recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, with Oscar Pettiford on bass and Art Blakey on drums, produced by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer – originally Riverside RLP 12-209 with a different cover.

My copy, via Academy Records in NYC, is the 1983 reissue in the Original Jazz Classics series, issued by Fantasy which acquired the Riverside catalog in 1972. These are wonderful reissues across Riverside, Prestige, Contemporary and other labels – and well worth picking up whenever you see them in good condition.

#1950s #1956 #ArtBlakey #BillGrauer #Fantasy #jazz #OriginalJazzClassics #OrrinKeepnews #OscarPettiford #Reissue #Riverside #RudyVanGelder #TheloniousMonk #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

Teo Macero with the Prestige Jazz Quartet, Teo, 1957 on Prestige

Macero is likely best known as the producer of both Bitches Brew and Time Out but he was also a great saxophone player and composer. He made multiple albums with Mingus and cofounded the Jazz Composers Workshop. Here he is joined by Addison Farmer (bass), Jerry Segal (drums), Mal Waldron (piano), and Teddy Charles (vibes). Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder.

My copy is a Vinyl Me, Please reissue from 2024 produced by Craft Recordings, with lacquers cut by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, and a listening notes book by Jason Diamond supplementing the original sleeve notes by Bob Altshuler. (Craft reproduces the Prestige labels but adds a catalog number CR00770; VMP adds the VMP Classics gold logo on the rear jacket).

#1950s #1957 #AddisonFarmer #BobAltshuler #craftRecordings #JasonDiamond #jazz #JerrySegal #MalWaldron #Prestige #PrestigeJazzQuartet #RudyVanGelder #TeddyCharles #TeoMacero #vinyl #vinylMePlease #VinylMePleaseClassics #vinylcollection

Ike Quebec, Easy Living, 1987 on Blue Note

Though this was first released / issued by Blue Note in 1987, it was actually recorded in 1962 at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in New Jersey, and represents that early 60s jazz era. It was originally going to be issued as BST-84103 – but the tracks on side one did ultimately make it on Blue Note LT-1089 (1981).

Quebec is joined here by fellow tenor sax master Stanley Turrentine and Bennie Green (on the first three tracks) plus Sonny Clark, Milt Hinton, and Art Blakey (on all six).

Unfortunately both Ike Quebec and Sonny Clark died in January of 1963, three days apart.

My copy via Joe’s Albums in Worcester MA.

#1960s #1962 #1987 #ArtBlakey #BennieGreen #BlueNote #IkeQuebec #jazz #JoeSAlbums #MiltHinton #RudyVanGelder #SonnyClark #StanleyTurrentine #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WorcesterMA

Sixty Years of A Love Supreme

On 9th December 1964 – exactly 60 years ago to the day – John Coltrane (ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (b) and Elvin Jones (d) got together to record at Rudy Van Gelder’s Studio in New Jersey. In a single session they created what is probably Coltrane’s masterpiece, A Love Supreme, an album that proved immediately popular and influential when it was released in 1965.

A Love Supreme represents a sort of musical culmination of everything this quartet had achieved and it’s not surprising that they abruptly changed direction soon after making this record. They had said everything they could say in this format. Coltrane’s next great album, Meditations, recorded in 1965, features the same musicians (with the addition of Pharaoh Sanders on tenor sax and a second drummer, Rashied Ali), but it’s much freer in style.

A Love Supreme consists of four sections: Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance and Psalm. As you might imagine from the titles, it’s a deeply spiritual piece. Acknowledgement is based on an 8-bar theme underpinned by a four-note phrase played on the bass that fits the phrase “a love supreme”. Coltrane impovises rather meditatively on this theme, then the group chants “a love supreme” in unison while Elvin Jones elaborates the rhythm in complex double-time. The second movement, Resolution, is based on a different 8-bar theme and Coltrane’s playing and interplay with Jones is much more agitated but it’s in Pursuance that he pulls out all the stops. Harmonically, Pursuance is a blues but it’s taken at a fast tempo and Coltrane plays with the harsh, strangulated tone he had developed by this time. After all this frantic activity he imbues the final section, Psalm, with a radiant solemnity, as he pours out an incredibly beautiful solo, with Elvin Jones providing a perfectly judged accompaniment, the rise and fall of his drum rolls showing wonderful control.

Anyway, these are just words. It’s much better just to listen to the music, as I have done twice already this evening. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll3CMgiUPuU

#ALoveSupreme #Acknowledgement #ElvinJones #JimmyGarrison #JohnColtrane #McCoyTyner #Psalm #Pursuance #Resolution #RudyVanGelder

Mose Allison, Down Home Piano, 1966 on Prestige

This 1966 release collects instrumental performances from six albums he released on Prestige in the late 50s and early 60s. There’s a similar Mose Allison Sings which collects “the vocal side of his talents.”

The performers include Allison, Addison Farmer (Art Farmer’s twin brother) on bass, and Ronnie Free / Nick Stabulas on drums. Liner notes by Jack McKinney, recordings by Rudy Van Gelder.

My copy, via La Fin Du Vinyle in Montreal QC, is an early 70s reissue “Remastered for Stereo.”

#1966 #AddisonFarmer #JackMcKinney #jazz #LaFinDuVinyle #MontrealQC #MoseAllison #NickStabulas #Prestige #RonnieFree #RudyVanGelder #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

Joe Henderson, Mode for Joe, 1966 on Blue Note

This was Henderson’s fifth studio album (as a band leader), joined by: Lee Morgan (trumpet), Chris Fuller (trombone), Bobby Hutcherson (vibes), Cedar Walton (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Joe Chambers (drums). Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder. Really wonderful Blue Note 60s jazz.

My copy is a 2024 reissue in the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series – all-analog 180g vinyl pressings mastered […]

#1960s #1966 #BlueNote #BlueNoteClassicVinylSeries #BobbyHutcherson #CedarWalton #ChrisFuller #jazz #JoeChambers #JoeHenderson #KevinGray #LeeMorgan #OptimalGmBH #RonCarter #RudyVanGelder #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

https://wp.me/p4tTZ-6Fw

#JohnColtrane – Trane's Comin 5 cd box on #NotNowMusicLimited 2010
Containing the albums:
With #RedGarland – Soultrane
http://youtu.be/OJTD8eSgOjw
Blue Train
http://youtu.be/VBBWqbPaJgs
Black Pearls
http://youtu.be/Pb7pIEsmdCU
Dakar
http://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k9e2tysB8qo2RyPn7PC8vhJoAX5qAu68M
With The Red Garland Trio – Traneing In
http://youtu.be/Xu2mQLwOMMw
#PaulChambers #ArtTaylor #CecilPayne #PepperAdams #DougWatkins #MalWaldron #DonaldByrd #PhillyJoeJones #KennyDrew #LeeMorgan #CurtisFuller #RudyVanGelder

Grant Green - Green Street

Grant Green is on so many LPs I’ve got, but I think I’ve only featured Club Mozambique, which was a relatively late recording.

So, back to near the start, April 1961, with a great bassist (Ben Tucker) and drummer (Dave Bailey), in RvG’s studio, laying down some great tracks.

He’s such a distinctive & great jazz artist…

#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #GrantGreen #DaveBailey #BenTucker #rudyvangelder #bluenote

Anthony Wilson - Hackensack West

Wilson, playing on his own and not as part of Diana Krall's band, cut these sides at Kevin Gray's studio (Hackensack West).

Great playing & sound, as you'd expect, mixed in an 'old' jazz style (guitar left, piano and bass center, drums right)…in fact, given it's supposed to sound like an RvG recording, it's weird to have a good sounding piano.

No doubt he'll ‘fix' that in later recordings. ;-)

#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #anthonywilson #kevingray #rudyvangelder

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower

A great album I didn't even know existed.

This is obviously well after Bossa Nova was passé here in the US, and yet Jobim got together in Rudy Van Gelder's studio (I find the fact that this was in that same space kind of amazing) with a number of amazing players (including Ron Carter) and laid this down…

Kinda wish Brazil had this Brazil…

Speaker's Corner re-release; good stuff.

#nowplaying #vinyl #bossanova #brazil #antoniocarlosjobim #rudyvangelder

Working on post to mark the day in 1962 when Creed Taylor and Rudy Van Gelder recorded Jack Teagarden.

Converting a bunch of old videos from laserdisc. Don't do this much these days, always forget which cables have to be plugged where... But off and running.

Anyone any idea who the drummer is in the second picture? #creedtaylor #rudyvangelder #Verve #jackteagarden

Eddie "Lockjaw" David + Johnny Griffin - The Tenor Scene

Two guys with very different tone playing up a storm with great backing. Another Rudy Van Gelder Prestige gem.

#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #rudyvangelder #prestige

Prestige All Stars - All Night Long

We're back in Rudy Van Gelder's living room with a gathering of young guns signed to Prestige, playing an inspired set of hard bop tunes.

Great performances and recording.

#nowplaying #jazz #prestige #rudyvangelder #vinyl