Rudy Van Gelder: Recording Coltrane, Miles, Monk, etc.
by Sasha Zand
" ... band. Wonderful. It was terrible, really. [laughing] I learned quick enough to record rather than to play music. [ image rudy2 type=right ] You were in the big band in the high school? No, no, the marching band. I ended up ... the later sessions were like ten-piece, and that was pushing it a little bit for Hackensack. I had gotten Gil Evans there, which I just wish I could have been able to do here. That was the pressure. And of course ... "