Manhattan Towers Hotel Ballroom. New York City
"The Manhattan Towers hotel had a ballroom which Rudy Van Gelder used as a recording studio for sessions in 1957-1958 (when he was still using his parents' Hackensack, N.J. home to record for Blue note). Van Gelder used the Manhattan Towers ballroom for larger ensembles that would not fit in his parent's living room or when it was simply more convenient to record the artists involved in NYC rather than Hackensack."