Various Artists - Blue Note Perfect Takes

DVD includes a rare interview with Rudy Van Gelder.

In the late 1990s, Blue Note asked Rudy Van Gelder to remaster his original recordings in the CD era using his state-of-the-art 24-bit equipment. Van Gelder has since brought new life and dimension to 120 classic Blue Note albums of the '50s and '60s. Rudy's delight in rediscovering the musical treasures that he first put on tape 40 or 50 years ago inspired Blue Note to ask him to select 10 tracks that epitomized what moved him musically with what satisfied him sonically. The result is Perfect Takes, a compilation of great jazz performances chosen and mastered by Rudy with his own revealing liner notes.

Blue Note's Tom Evered and Michael Cuscuna went to Rudy's studio in Englewood Cliffs with video producer/director Chuck Fishbein. Over seven hours, the normally very private Van Gelder took them on a tour of the studio, recounted his professional life, offered anecdotes on famous sessions and expounded on his philosophy of sound. The revelatory and revealing footage was what every self-respecting jazz fanatic has been aching to see. This bonus 27-minute DVD is offered free with the purchase of Perfect Takes.