Artist: Bernard Pretty Purdie
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Discography:
Super Funk Blaxploitation Lialeh
Year: 1974
Tracks: 7
An all-time peachy soul, R&B, funk, and pop out drummer, Bernard Purdie's impeccable time and mastery of backbeats and grooves are famous. He stirred to New York from Maryland in 1960, and recorded with James Brown, King Curtis, and many others. He was CTI's business firm drummer in the late '60s and early '70s, and worked with Grover Washington, Jr. and George Benson among various others. Purdie toured with Curtis and Aretha Franklin in 1970, and was Franklin's music film director until 1975. During his studio apartment days in the early '70s, Purdie recorded with Louis Armstrong and Gato Barbieri along with numerous rock-and-roll, pop, and individual roger Sessions. He recorded with Dizzy Gillespie in 1980 at the Montreux Jazz Festival and toured with him in 1983. Purdie recorded with Hank Crawford during the early '80s, and has continued working steady into the '90s. He generated a firestorm of reaction in 1993 when he aerated it was his uncredited drumming instead than Ringo Starr's on some Beatles tracks. Purdie claimed proof was forthcoming, but none was presented. He made a rare engagement as a drawing card for Flying Dutchman in 1972, Pretty Purdie, that has prospicient since disappeared. But Purdie can be heard on multitudinous discs by Brown, Franklin, Curtis, Gillespie, and Crawford among many others.
