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#3001 2016-09-16 02:23:20
- SanchoPanza
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I just made the connection that Rudy only worked with Blue Note. + Grant never played an L-5.
I found the photo, here's what it says about it:
"L to R: Ira Gitler, unidentified, Red Rodney, Robert Levin, Ira Sullivan.
From a Red Rodney recording session for the Signal label at Rudy Van Gelder’s Hackensack, NJ studio. The photo is by Don Schlitten."
#3002 2016-09-16 03:12:18
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Those Hackensack photos are always cool because you can see the domestic set-up of what was basically Rudy's Parent's front room. There's shots where you can spy a lamp or the arm of a sofa behind some hot-wired hard-bopper. The Englewood Cliffs room in the Wes and Creed shot was built to spec. Basically a jazz 'church' that Rudy built in the back garden. What a room!
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#3003 2016-09-16 03:16:47
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Yeah, there is one picture where you can see MIles Davis and Rudys parents TV in the background, must find that one.
#3004 2016-09-16 03:18:58
#3005 2016-09-16 03:25:41
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#3006 2016-09-16 03:42:46
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Glimpse of lace...
'Bill Murden becomes the hero of the day as he rescues a confused duck.'
#3007 2016-09-16 03:44:35
#3008 2016-09-16 07:39:02
- Berkeley_Breathes
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Anyone interested in Rudy should check out the Blue Note biography by Richard Cook and the RVG interview by Ben Sidran from the 80s... The best-sounding RVG dates besides Blue Note are definitely the Impulse! recordings from the 60s... he built his studio in Englewood around that time... his "studio" prior to that was his parents' living room (although it did have a glass booth built in!)... As far as the Prestige vs. BN sound, RVG has said that it was mainly the producers, not so much rehearsals or anything like that... Alfred Lion was always in the studio and had very specific ideas about what he wanted the sound to be, and RVG found ways to get that sound... Prestige didn't care at all, they just wanted to make money...
A common thought, and one I agree with, is that RVG's piano sound, at least for BN, is sh*t... always sounds so dead... I love Riverside for a piano sound... but damn could the man mic drums!
RIP RVG
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#3009 2016-09-16 07:51:16
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some sort of banal legitimacy
#3010 2016-09-16 09:36:10
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some sort of banal legitimacy
#3011 2016-09-16 10:16:56
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#3013 2016-09-16 19:49:04
- Berkeley_Breathes
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I agree about the RVG remasters... And imo you don't notice the RVG piano unless it's up against something more vibrant... but even the guys recording with him commented on it...
Interestingly, a recent interview with George Coleman includes him saying there wasn't much rehearsal for the "Maiden Voyage" sessions, which meant the band couldn't really absorb the Hancock compositions as much as GC would have liked... But then GC has some old beef with that rhythm section, so who knows if that's the whole truth...
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#3015 2016-09-21 06:09:13
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#3016 2016-09-21 20:04:26
- Pennies_and_Oxfords
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It reminds me of a particular photo of Paul in a blue button-down lounging around. Really captured the magic of it all.
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#3017 2016-09-21 21:16:22
- Berkeley_Breathes
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"The only comment a gentleman’s outfit should generate is that he is properly dressed for the occasion" - Calvin Trillin
#3018 2016-09-22 12:47:24
#3019 2016-09-22 15:10:27
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Thats one of the most swinging collars ive seen..look where the second button is!!! INSANITY
#3020 2016-09-22 20:02:04
- Pennies_and_Oxfords
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Spot on, Berk.
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#3021 2016-09-28 12:02:06
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"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"
