Rudy Van Gelder has been played on NTS in shows including The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Zakia, featured first on 21 October 2012. Songs played include Part 1 • The Gods Of The Yoruba and African Ascension.

Rudy Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz.

Regarded as the most important recording engineer of jazz by some observers, Van Gelder recorded several thousand jazz sessions, including many recognized as classics, in a career which spanned more than half a century. Van Gelder recorded many of the great names in the genre, including John Coltrane, Miles Davis,…