Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright Instagram – Not me jumping down the Rudy Van Gelder rabbit hole. Van Gelder, a trained optometrist, was the sound engineer who, in 1955, recorded the Cannonball Adderley/Miles Davis Autumn Leaves‼️in a studio squeezed into his parents’ living room 😮in Hackensack, NJ. The house had been built in 1946 and Van Gelder asked that his parents’ architect dial in the acoustics and also place ‘a control room with a double-glass window next to the living room.’ His parents understood his serousness. He was 22. Then, in 1959, he moved to a purpose-built studio (with an apartment above) in Englewood, designed by David Henken, a protege of Frank Lloyd Wright. The building (second pic), which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2022, is just north of the GW Bridge, high in the cliffs there, if you’re driving the Palisades Parkway. I’ve passed it many times and had no idear. Thousands of albums were recorded there, including, among other flames, *gulp* Coltrane’s A Love Supreme. That album’s iconic cover photo was captured at the studio. The original studio was bulldozed at some point, ‘cause, y’know, America. Rudy Van Gelder died in 2016. Me? Mind-blown. | Posted on 27/Feb/2024 20:52:03