Hot Stamper Pressings of Recordings by Rudy Van Gelder Available Now
God Bless the Child is one of our favorite orchestra-backed jazz records here at Better Records. A few others off the top of my head would be Wes Montgomery’s California Dreaming (1966, and also Sebesky-arranged), Grover Washington’s All the King’s Horses (1973) and Deodato’s Prelude (also 1973, with brilliant arrangements by the man himself).
On a killer copy the sound is out of this world. Rich and full, open and transparent, we love the sound of many of Rudy’s recordings from the 70s. This kind of warm, rich, Tubey Magical analog sound is gone forever. You have to go back to 1971 to find it!
Just don’t make the mistake of buying one with VAN GELDER in the dead wax and these stampers.
The sound will more than likely be bright on side one and opaque on side two, or some combination thereof.
