Rudy Van Gelder, Engineer of ‘That’ Jazz Sound, Is Dead
(Photo for The New York Times by James Estrin) Here’s one of those obituaries for someone you never heard of who turns out to be a giant: audio engineer Rudy Van Gelder, …..
Posts tagged: Miles Davis
Bill Evans Plays Jazz in a Living Room in Finland
The Bill Evans Trio did a little gig in Helsinki in 1970, with hip Scandanvians all around.
Happy Birthday, Dead Miles Davis
Miles Davis would have been 83 today, but he died in 1991.To honor the master trumpeter, we looked around and found this video of him playing that wild, ground-breaking piece “Bitches Brew”: