Bernard Purdie - Purdie Good! - import

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. Appearing on Purdie Good! are Tippy Larkin, Warren Daniels, Charlie Brown, Harold Wheeler, Ted Dunbar, Billy Nichols, Gordon Edwards, & Norman Pride.