Don Van Gordon


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American audio engineer, known to have worked for Kapp Records during the 1960s, becoming mastering and chief engineer at Soundwave by the early 1970s. In the late eighties worked at Executive Recording Ltd., which eventually became D & G Mastering.

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James Williams (2) With Slide Hampton
Flying Colors
1978, LP, Album, Zim Records, ,
Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Bop
Howard McGhee Orchestra*
Cookin' Time
1977
The Red Onion Jazz Band With Natalie Lamb
Manassas 1973
1976, LP, Album, Fat Cat's Jazz
Thee Prophets
Playgirl
1969, Vinyl, ,
Pop Rock/Soul
Silver Apples
Contact
2019
Various
Holy Smoke (Don't Let Love Fool You!)
2018, CD, Comp, Koko Mojo Records, ,
Rhythm & Blues
Wadada Leo Smith
Kabell Years: 1971-1979
2004, 4xCD, Comp, RM, Tzadik, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, Wallingford Riegger, Ruth Crawford Seeger, John J. Becker
Quartet Romantic
1998, CD, Comp, RM, New World Records, ,
Modern/Chamber Music/Percussion Ensemble/String Ensemble
Leslie Bassett, Ralph Shapey, William O. Smith, Harvey Sollberger, Robert Erickson, Andrew Imbrie, Robert Hall Lewis, Robert Morris
New Music For Virtuosos
1998, CD, Album, New World Records
The Rondelles
Safety In Numbers
1998
Joe Henderson
In Pursuit Of Blackness / Black Is The Color
1998, ,
Jazz-Rock/Latin Jazz
Bradford Gowen, Henry Cowell, George Perle, Samuel Adler, Robert Evett, Frederic Goossen, Wendell Keeney
Exultation
1998,
2 Direct
Ready, Set, Go
1997
Flu Thirteen
Edgar's Airwaves b/w Glorious Hair
1996, 7", Generic Recordings, ,
Alternative Rock/Indie Rock
Tzant Featuring Verna Francis
Hot & Wet (Believe It)
1996, ,
House
Blast Off Country Style
In My Arms
1996
Rapination & Kym Mazelle
Love Me The Right Way '96
1996, ,
House/Garage House
Cosmo & Dibs
Star Eyes
1996
Eniac
In Your Face
1996
The Bomb Squad
Pressure
1996
The Olympic Death Squad
Blue
1996
Versus
Secret Swingers
1996
Frankie Bones
My Peak
1996
Various
Education
1995, LP, Comp, The Mountain Collective For Independent Artists, Ltd.
Air Miami
Me. Me. Me.
1995, ,
Indie Rock
Conniption
Conniption
1994, 7", EP, Frame Work
Terminal Confusion
Terminal Confusion
1994, 7", Mangler Records
Unrest
Animal Park
1994
95 North Featuring Sabrynaah Pope
Hold On
1994, ,
House/Garage House
Absolutely Boxspring
Absolutely Boxspring
1993, 7", Single, Not On Label
Stanley
Love Feast / Goner
1993
Nu Phonic Featuring Charvoni
I Wanna Be Your Lover (Remixes)
1993, Vinyl, ,
House/Garage House
Phallacy
Against It E.P.
1993
Scapegrace
Plead
1992
Duke Ellington
The 1949 Band Salutes Ellington '90
1990, LP, Duke Ellington Society
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
The 1949 Band Salutes Ellington '90
1990, LP, Album, Not On Label
Grandmaster Mele Mel* & Van Silk
What's The Matter With Your World?
1989, Vinyl,
Spoonie Gee
The Godfather Of Rap
1987
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
A Stereo Excursion With Duke Ellington - Live Performances By Duke Ellington And His Orchestra 1953-1973
1986, LP, Album, S/Edition, Ellington '86, ,
Big Band/Swing
Various
Swing Jackpot Unissued Big Band Treasures 1941-1944
1986, LP, Comp, Jazz Archives
Duke Ellington And His Famous Cotton Club Orchestra*
Reflections In Ellington
1985, LP, Everybodys, ,
Big Band/Swing
Various
1940 (The Bands Of Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Andy Kirk, And Jimmie Lunceford)
1985, LP, Album, Comp, Everybodys, ,
Big Band/Swing
Vincent Persichetti, The Mendelssohn Club Of Philadelphia*, Tamara Brooks
Choral Works: Love / Mass / Winter Cantata
1984
Monyaka
Classical Roots
1983, LP, Album, Hevyaka Records, ,
Roots Reggae
Jean-Luc Barbier
Tokonoma Solo Sax
1983, LP, ReEntry Records
The Equitables
None Stop Party
1983
Marty Grosz And His Blue Angels
I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
1982, LP, Album, Aviva Records
Larry Gelb
The Language Of Blue
1982, LP, Album, Cadence Jazz Records
Morris Moshe Cotel
The Fire And The Mountains / Piano Sonata, Four Hands
1981, LP, Album, Grenadilla Records
Fats Waller
Oh Mercy! Looka' Here
1981, ,
Swing
Gregory Fulkerson
Cadenzas & Variations
1981
William Parker
William Parker Performs Vocal Works By Ernst Bacon, Robert Evett, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Lee Hoiby, John Jacob Niles, Ned Rorem
1980, LP, New World Records
Parnassus (2), Stefan Wolpe / Mario Davidovsky / Charles Wuorinen / Erik Lundborg / David Olan
Parnassus Plays Works By Stefan Wolpe / Mario Davidovsky / Charles Wuorinen / Erik Lundborg / David Olan
1980, LP, New World Records, ,
Contemporary
Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Wardell Gray, Paul Quinichette
Tenors Anyone?
1980
Chick Corea & Lionel Hampton
Chick & Lionel Live At MIDEM
1980
Nat Pierce Orchestra*
The Ballad Of Jazz Street
1980, ,
Big Band
Harold Mabern
Pisces Calling
1980
Tory Wynter
I See The Coming ...
1980, ,
Reggae/Soul
Lytle* / Cartwright*
Bright Bank Elewhale
1979, LP, Cornpride
Tony Purrone, Jeff Fuller, Frank Bennett
Expansion
1979, LP, Quadrangle Music
Howard McGhee Sextet
Live At Emerson's
1979, LP, Album, Zim Records, ,
Bop
Larry Gelb
New Souls
1979, LP, Album, Essene
Joan Morris, William Bolcom
The Girl On The Magazine Cover
1979
Andrew Imbrie, Gunther Schuller / The Emerson String Quartet*
String Quartet No. 4 / String Quartet No. 2
1978, LP, Gat, New World Records
William Parker (3) • Dalton Baldwin • Ani Kavafian*
Nine Songs By Charles Ives / Songs By Theodore Chanler, Norman Dello Joio, Irving Fine, Robert Ward
1978, LP, New World Records, ,
Modern
Georgie Auld And His Orchestra
Big Band Jazz 1945-1946 Volume One
1978, LP, Comp, Musicraft, ,
Big Band/Swing
Count Basie
Count Basie At The Famous Door 1938-1939
1978, LP, Mono, Jazz Archives
Henry Cowell, Wallingford Riegger, John J. Becker, Ruth Crawford Seeger
Works By: Henry Cowell / Wallingford Riegger / John J. Becker / Ruth Crawford Seeger
1978, LP, Album, New World Records, ,
Modern
Lester Young & Charlie Christian
1939-1940
1978, LP, Comp, Mono, Gat, Jazz Archives, Jazz Archives
Benjamin Carr, Oliver Shaw, George K. Jackson*
The Flowering Of Vocal Music In America / Vol. 2
1978, LP, New World Records
Cincinnati's University Singers* And Theater Orchestra*
I Want's To Be A Actor Lady: And Other Hits From Early Musical Comedies
1978, LP, New World Records
Various
Legendary Black Jazz Stars In Their First Films
1978
Various
Come And Trip It (Instrumental Dance Music, 1780s-1920s)
1978,
Max Morath • Danny Barker • Clifford Jackson • Dick Hyman
Don't Give The Name A Bad Place (Types And Stereotypes In American Musical Theater 1870-1900)
1978, ,
Ragtime/Novelty
Artie Shaw
Clarinet Magic With The Big Band And Strings (Volume 1)
1978, Vinyl Gatefold, ,
Big Band
George F. Root
The Haymakers (An Operatic Cantata, Part The Second)
1978
Members Of The Federal Music Society, Frederick R. Selch, John Baldon
Music Of The Federal Era
1978
Malcolm Frager
Malcolm Frager Plays Adolph Martin Foerster / Henry F. Gilbert / Henry Holden Huss / Ethelbert Nevin / Horatio Parker / Edward MacDowell / John Knowles Paine
1978, Vinyl, ,
Romantic/Neo-Romantic
New Dalta Ahkri
Song Of Humanity = Kanto Pri Homaro
1977, LP, Album, Kabell Records, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Paul Chihara / Chou Wen-Chung / Earl Kim / Roger Reynolds
Ceremony II (Incantations) / Suite For Harp And Wind Quintet / Earthlight / From Behind The Unreasoning Mask
1977, LP, Album, New World Records
Arthur Shepherd (2) / Henry Cowell / Roy Harris
Works By Arthur Shepherd, Henry Cowell, Roy Harris
1977, LP, Album, New World Records
Nat Pierce Orchestra* Featuring Charlie Mariano, Ralph Burns, Teddi King
1948 -1950
1977, LP, Comp, Mono, Zim Records, ,
Big Band
The Harmoneion Singers, Peter Basquin, Clifford Jackson, John Aler
Where Home Is: Life In Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati/Crossroads Of The East And West
1977, LP, New World Records
Doug Hammond With Karen Joseph
Ellipse
1977
Randall Thompson / Seymour Shifrin / Elliott Carter - The University Of Michigan Chamber Choir, Members Of The University Of Michigan Symphony Orchestra*, Thomas Hilbish
Americana / The Odes Of Shang / To Music
1977
Roger Sessions, The Boston Symphony Orchestra*, Seiji Ozawa
When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd
1977
Gene Mayl And The Dixieland Rhythm Kings*
On The Road Manassas 1976
1976, LP, Album, Fat Cat's Jazz
Various
Eighth Annual Manassas All Star Jazz Festival - Volume Three
1976, LP, Album, Fat Cat's Jazz
Dan Smith
Now Is The Time
1975, LP, Album, Biograph
"Wild Bill" Davison*, Dick Wellstood, Tommy Gwaltney, "Slide" Harris*, Van Perry, Jackie Connor* Featuring Vocalists Natalie Lamb And "Fat Cat" McRee*
Jazz Hayloft Style, Volume Two
1975, LP, Fat Cat's Jazz, ,
Dixieland
Tex Wyndham
He's A Rag Picker
1975, LP, Album, Fat Cat's Jazz
Jess Stacy
Stacy Still Swings
1975
Dollar Brand, Abdullah Ibrahim
Soweto
1975
Karl Herreshoff – Silvius Leopold Weiss* / Esias Reusner*
The Baroque Lute
1974, LP, Album, Harlequin (2)
Charles Davis (2) Featuring Louis Davis (2) With Louis Hayes & Company
Ingia!
1974
The Joe Venuti Blue Four*
The Joe Venuti Blue Four
1974, Vinyl,
Marva Josie With Earl "Fatha" Hines And His Orchestra*
This Is Marva Josie
1973, LP, Album, Thimble Records
The Piano Choir
Handscapes
1973, ,
Free Jazz/Space-Age
The North Carolina Ramblers*
The North Carolina Ramblers
1972, LP, Album, Comp, Biograph
Dmitri Kabalevsky*, Şahan Arzruni
Pieces For Children, Opp. 27 & 39
1972, LP, Musical Heritage Society
Gerard Schwarz, Kun Woo Paik
The French Influence (Music For The Trumpet)
1972, LP, Album, Harlequin (2), ,
Modern
Aram Khatchaturian, Şahan Arzruni
Children's Album Books I And II
1972, LP, Album, Musical Heritage Society
Blind Lemon Jefferson / Son House
Blind Lemon Jefferson / Son House
1972
Various
Pitchin' Boogie - A Second Collection Of Boogie Woogie Rarities
1972
Joseph Haydn, The Eidus Quartet
String Quartet In D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2 / String Quartet In B-flat Major, Op. 76 No. 4
1971, LP, Musical Heritage Society, ,
Classical
Jean Sibelius, David Rubenstein
Piano Music
1971, LP, Album, Musical Heritage Society, Inc.
Felix Mendelssohn*, Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky*, Sergei Rachmaninoff*, Alexander Glazounov*, Gabriel Faure*, Maurice Ravel, Isaac Albeniz*, Albert Catell, Edward Gold
Romantic Cello Encores
1971, LP, Musical Heritage Society
Lester Young / Charlie Parker / Dizzy Gillespie
Early Modern: 1946 Concert Recordings
1971
Jack DeJohnette
Have You Heard?
1971
Gary Bartz NTU Troop
Home!
1970
The Good Rats*
The Good Rats
1969
Joan Rivers
The Next To Last Joan Rivers Album
1969, Vinyl, ,
Comedy
Silver Apples
Silver Apples
1968, ,
Psychedelic Rock/Experimental
Just Us
I Can't Grow Peaches On A Cherry Tree
1966
Bill Dana
Bill Dana In Las Vegas With Special Guest Jose Jimenez
1964
Percussion Unlimited
My Fair Lady On Fire
1961
Percussion Unlimited
New Shows In Town - 1961
1961,
The John Parker Orchestra
The Sound Of Conversations In Music
1960
The Jack Elliott Orchestra*
The Sound Of Dynamic Woodwinds
1960
The Medallion Minstrel Men Under The Direction Of John Krance
Mr. Interlocutor (The Sound Of A Minstrel Show)
1960,
Frank Hunter And His Orchestra
The Sound Of Strings Volume 2
1960, Vinyl Gatefold, ,
Early
Michael Leighton & His Orchestra*
The Sound Of Strings
1960, ,
Easy Listening
The Medallion Marching Band Under The Direction Of David Terry
The Sound Of A Marching Band 120 Cadence
1960, ,
Marches
The Medallion Orchestra And Chorus* Directed By John Paul Krance*
The Sound Of Christmas – Deck The Halls
1960
The Peter London Orchestra
The Sound Of Top Brass, Volume 2
1960,
Ernie Williams
My Pretty Baby / Please Remember The Night
1957, 7", Web Records (12)
Bob Jones
Inferiority Complex
1957, 7", Web Records (12), ,
Rockabilly
Margot Miller-Grasmane
Latvian Music And Folk Songs Arranged For Harp
LP, Not On Label (Margot Miller-Grasmane Self-released), ,
Classical/Folk
Wild Bill Davison And The Colonial Boys
Wild Bill Meets The Colonial Boys
LP, Album, Fat Cat's Jazz
Clyde Bernhardt & Jay Cole Harlem Blues & Jazz Band
More Blues & Jazz From Harlem
LP, Album, 400 W. 150
Giovanni Gastoldi / Thomas Morley / Heinrich Ignaz Franz Von Biber* / Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Karen Phillips, Walter Trampler
Viola-Viola D'Amore Duos
LP, Musical Heritage Society
Olatunde Adetola
Yoruba Language & Culture (Vol. 1)
LP, Album, Gemini Enterprises Production, Gemini Enterprises Production, Gemini Enterprises Production
Bor
Bor
7", Not On Label (Bor (4) Self-released)
Various
Screaming Black (Early Rockin' Rhythm & Blues)
CD, Comp, Still Records (2)
Various
The World's Greatest Masterpieces - 31 Piano Masterpieces
LP, Hall Of Music, Inc., Hall Of Music, Inc.
Tommy Saunders
Manassas Musicale '73
LP, Fat Cat's Jazz
Max Kaminsky ,With The Happy Jazz Band
Max Kaminsky Meets The Happy Jazz Band
LP, GRT, Fat Cat's Jazz
The Medallion Marching Band Under The Direction Of David Terry
Marches Populaires Américaines - 120 Cadence
LP, Album, Mode Disques, ,
Marches
The Straight A's
The Straight A's
The Escorts
Make Me Over
The Medallion Strings Directed By Emanuel Vardi
The Sound Of Hollywood
Half Man
No Choice But To Learn
Anthony Philip Heinrich, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Keene / Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Anthony And Joseph Paratore*
The Ornithological Combat Of Kings / Night In The Tropics
The Good Rats*
The Good Rats
2017
Silver Apples
Silver Apples
2007, Vinyl, ,
Psychedelic Rock/Experimental