Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

The Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey albums, compilations, singles and EPs, and live albums catalog with cataloged releases, editions, and label credits

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Recording Studio operated by engineer Rudy Van Gelder at this location from 1947 to mid-July 1959, when he moved his operations to Englewood Cliffs: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey and ceased his day job as an optometrist. The original studio doubled as his parent's living room, but the house (built 1945-46) had been designed with the intention RVG would be able to use it as a recording space. The room's ceiling was higher than usual to improve acoustics and a control room was built behind a double-glazed window. Initially the facility was used to record family and friends, but Van Gelder's activities soon spread to recording local musicians. Eventually, in 1952 tenor saxophonist Gil Mellé played a recording of his session engineered by Van Gelder to Alfred Lion of Blue Note who soon switched his label's recording needs to the Hackensack studio. RVG was among the first American engineers to use a Neumann condenser microphone and the Ampex 300 tape recorder, both introduced in 1949. From 1953, RVG was able to undertake his own mastering for commercial clients. NOTE: Many liner notes on 1950s albums engineered by Van Gelder falsely indicate "New York" as the recording location.

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Blue Train

John Coltrane · 1958

Studio Album

Somethin’ Else

Cannonball Adderley = キャノンボール・アダレイ · 1958

Studio Album

Moanin'

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers · 1958

Studio Album

Saxophone Colossus

Sonny Rollins · 1957

Studio Album

Wave

Antonio Carlos Jobim · 1967

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Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane · 1963

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Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet

The Miles Davis Quintet · 1957

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Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet

The Miles Davis Quintet · 1958

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Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk With Sonny Rollins, Ernie Henry And Clark Terry · 1957

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Cool Struttin'

Sonny Clark · 1958

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Soultrane

John Coltrane · 1958

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Walkin'

Miles Davis All Stars · 1957

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Lush Life

John Coltrane · 1961

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Bags Groove

Miles Davis · 1957

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Takin' Off +3 = テイキン・オフ+3

Herbie Hancock = ハービー・ハンコック · 1962

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Steamin' With The Miles Davis Quintet

The Miles Davis Quintet · 1961

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Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet

The Miles Davis Quintet · 1959

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Genius Of Modern Music Volume 1

Thelonious Monk · 1951

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Django

The Modern Jazz Quartet · 1956

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Tenor Madness

Sonny Rollins Quartet · 1956

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Coltrane = コルトレーン

John Coltrane · 1957

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Concorde

The Modern Jazz Quartet · 1955

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The Astrud Gilberto Album

Astrud Gilberto · 1965

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3 Giants!

Sonny Rollins, Clifford Brown And Max Roach · 1956

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The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 1

Bud Powell · 1955

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Volume Two

Sonny Rollins · 1957

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Concierto

Jim Hall · 1975

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Miles

The New Miles Davis Quintet · 1956

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The Sermon!

Jimmy Smith · 1959

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Astrud Gilberto With Turrentine

Astrud Gilberto With Turrentine · 1971

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Diggin' With The Miles Davis Sextet

Miles Davis · 1956

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Newk's Time

Sonny Rollins · 1959

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Quiet Kenny

Kenny Dorham · 1960

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Tide

Antonio Carlos Jobim · 1970

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Fontessa

The Modern Jazz Quartet · 1956

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The Scene Changes, Vol. 5

The Amazing Bud Powell · 1958

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Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane

Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane · 1963

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Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington

Thelonious Monk · 1956

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Down Here On The Ground

Wes Montgomery · 1967

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Quintet / Sextet

Miles Davis and Milt Jackson · 1955

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Outward Bound

Eric Dolphy Quintet · 1960

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Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants

Miles Davis · 1959

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Night Dreamer

Wayne Shorter · 1964

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Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers

Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers · 1955

Studio Album

Vol. 1

Sonny Rollins · 1957

Studio Album

The Musings Of Miles

Miles Davis Quartet · 1955

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Groovy

The Red Garland Trio · 1957

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Blues Walk

Lou Donaldson · 1958

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