Bernard Purdie - Purdie Good / Shaft

An innovator of the funk style of drumming in the 1970s, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie recorded for Prestige during the same years as Houston Person. Purdie had previously played a whole range of session work - he was the drummer on James Brown's It's A Man's Man's World and he'd also participated in several rock dates during the CBS Rock Machine Turns You On era.

He became musical director for Aretha Franklin from 1970-75 (his love of her music comes over in the heartfelt Soul Sister Number One from his Flying Dutchman album Soul Is. ..Pretty Purdie. Shaft and Purdie Good come from 1971 - the latter features guitarist Ted Dunbar, the former (on the title track) none other than Houston Person.

    1 Cold Sweat
    2 Montego Bay
    3 Purdie Good
    4 Wasteland
    5 Everybody's Talkin'
    6 You Turn Me on
    7 Theme from Shaft
    8 Way Back Home
    9 Attica
    10 Them Changes
    11 Summer Melody
    12 Butterfingers