Share some under appreciated jazz album titles

A can’t miss by the late great Les McCann circa 1983. Album Title is The Longer You Wait. It’s on YouTube.  Album and CD can be found in used record stores. Yes, they’re still around in my neck of the woods. 

@tyray 

"I always thought the fifties and sixties were the the best of times of putting jazz music on wax? Even the mono recordings were killer. With all those ooey gooey vacuum tube recordings with the best engineers, studios and producers on the planet."

I hate to break it to you but those early recording were produced by independents and were recorded in living rooms and broom closets! In the case of Blue Note, Prestige, Savoy, and others were for the most part engineered regardless of the label by Rudy Van Gelder in the same locations only the producers were different and since Rudy was quite the "yes man" he tailored the sound to what they wanted.

Atlantic was mostly engineered by Tom Dowd under the supervision of Ahmet Ertegun (who founded Atlantic) and his brother Nesuhi who went on later to sign such class acts as Led Zeppelin and Bad Company to name a few. 

Candid founded by Archie Bleyer and Nat Hentoff and Riverside by Orrin Keepnews who along with other labels, were also tiny operations but yet brought to the forefront all of the burgeoning talent of the time that we revere today. You could also consider them cutting edge with all of the stereo recording technology being introduced and the technological hurdles that were overcome to produce the stunning jazz recordings we still enjoy today.

@faustuss,

Thanks for the info. I pulled this off of google ai. 

Rudy Van Gelder started recording professionally around 1952-1953 in his parents’ living room at 25 Prospect Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey, which served as his first studio before he built a dedicated facility in Englewood Cliffs in 1959. His first Blue Note session, with Gil Melle, brought him to Alfred Lion’s attention, launching his legendary career capturing iconic jazz records in that home setup. 

Key Details:

• When: Early 1950s (around 1952-1953).
• Where: His parents’ house in Hackensack, NJ.
• Significance: This humble living room became the birthplace for countless classic jazz albums for labels like Blue Note, Prestige, and Savoy, notes Wikipedia and uDiscover Music. 

           The 1959 Rudy Van Gelder Studio  

           Rudy Van Gelder in his first studio in Hackensack, NJ ~mid-1950s

That's one heck of a 'closet' two track recording system in his parents remodeled living room. It would make sense to have the principle artist in a makeshift recording booth or closet and have the band members mic'd up in the living room.

@faustuss 

You neglect to mention Roy DuNaan, whose records tend to sound better than Van Gelder’s (to some of us, at least). 

Link to his discogs page:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/407308-Roy-DuNann?srsltid=AfmBOoqqF_934HvYhwBfnlhQjV-Ouyk1438NqiTd6OA8d23LJXbmOVUU