On August 2, 1959, Rudy Van Gelder opened his newly built Englewood Cliffs, N.J., recording studio. It was an imposing, almost church-like space far different from where he had begun making records years earlier. Between 1952 and August 1959, Rudy recorded jazz albums for Blue Note, Savoy and other labels in a soundproofed room at his parents modernist …
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