Happy Birthday Rudy van Gelder!

Myles B. Astor

Myles B. Astor

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Happy 90th birthday! A national treasure and one of a kind! What's your favorite van Gelder recording?

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OK some of my favorite RVG titles:

Midnight Blue with Kenny Burrell - Blue Note
Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else - Blue Note
Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage - Blue Note
Jackie McLean: New Soil - Blue Note
Joe Henderson: Inner Urge


Blues and the Abstract Truth - Impulse (Bill Evans, 'nuff said)
Gil Evans Out of the Cool- Impulse (a masterpiece)
Ben Webster See You at the Fair-Impulse
Roy Haynes Out of the Afternoon-Impulse
John Lee Hooker It Serve You Right to Suffer-Impulse
John Coltrane Ballads-Impulse

George Benson-The Other Side of Abbey Road - CTI

Kenny Burrell Guitar Forms Verve
The Individualism of Gil Evans Verve
Wynton Kelly Trio Smokin at the Half Note Verve

Lightnin' Hopkins Goin Away Prestige Bluesville
Shakey Jake Mouth Harp Blues Prestige Bluesville

Illinois Jacquet Desert Winds Argo
 
Bags Groove-Miles
Undercurrent-Kenny Drew
Cookin'-Miles
Doin' Allright-Dexter Gordon

To name just a few.
 
Myles B. Astor said:
OK some of my favorite RVG titles:

Midnight Blue with Kenny Burrell - Blue Note
Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else - Blue Note
Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage - Blue Note
Jackie McLean: New Soil - Blue Note
Joe Henderson: Inner Urge


Blues and the Abstract Truth - Impulse (Bill Evans, 'nuff said)
Gil Evans Out of the Cool- Impulse (a masterpiece)
Ben Webster See You at the Fair-Impulse
Roy Haynes Out of the Afternoon-Impulse
John Lee Hooker It Serve You Right to Suffer-Impulse
John Coltrane Ballads-Impulse

George Benson-The Other Side of Abbey Road - CTI

Kenny Burrell Guitar Forms Verve
The Individualism of Gil Evans Verve
Wynton Kelly Trio Smokin at the Half Note Verve

Lightnin' Hopkins Goin Away Prestige Bluesville
Shakey Jake Mouth Harp Blues Prestige Bluesville

Illinois Jacquet Desert Winds Argo
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I own my share of RVG recordings and some of them are on your list above. One that I have that I didn't realize was a RVG recording was Maiden Voyage which I'm quite fond of. Hasn't RVG flipped over to the digital side now?
 
mep said:
I own my share of RVG recordings and some of them are on your list above. One that I have that I didn't realize was a RVG recording was Maiden Voyage which I'm quite fond of. Hasn't RVG flipped over to the digital side now?
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Years ago.
 
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