Rudy Van Gelder, a New Jersey optometrist who in the late 1940s extended his passion for ocular precision to professional recording and wound up becoming one of jazz's finest and most enigmatic studio engineers, died on Aug. 25. He was 91. [Photo of Rudy Van Gelder by Hank O'Neal]
When Rudy started recording at his parents' Hackensack, N.J., home (above)…
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