# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudy-van-gelder
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:52:29.402Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudy-van-gelder"
name: "Rudy Van Gelder"
slug: "rudy-van-gelder"
description: "Rudolph Van Gelder was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz. Over more than half a century, he recorded several thousand sessions, with musicians including Booker Ervin, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Smith, Art Blakey, Bud Powell, Lee Morgan, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green, and George Benson. Van Gelder worked with many different record companies, and recorded almost every session on Blue Note Records from 1953 to 1967."
tagline: "American recording engineer (1924-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RogerDawsonSeptet_(cropped_-_Rudy_Van_Gelder).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1924-11-02"
deathDate: "2016-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.240468363845766
  historical:           19.46812266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0886915/"
    handle:    "nm0886915"
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    title: "Ван Гелдер, Руди"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump