Legends of Acid Jazz Bernard "Pretty" Purdie

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  • Release Date: 12/03/1996
  • Original Release: 1971
  • Sales Rank: 107,426
  • Label: PRESTIGE
  • UPC: 025218517621

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Legends of Acid Jazz

1LISTENCold Sweat 5:38
2LISTENMontego Bay 5:40
3LISTENPurdie Good 6:29
4LISTENWasteland 6:10
5LISTENEverybody's Talkin' 5:14
6LISTENYou Turn Me On 6:25
7LISTENTheme from Shaft 5:52
8LISTENWay Back Home 5:30
9LISTENAttica 4:12
10LISTENChanges 4:52
11LISTENSummer Melody 6:27
12LISTENButterfingers 4:12

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Legends of Acid Jazz: The Best of Bernard Purdie is a pounding demonstration of why Bernard "Pretty" Purdie was considered one of the premier "funky drummers" of the late 1960s and early 1970s. A compilation of his two 1971 solo albums Shaft and Purdie Good!, Legends opens with a cracklin' cover of James Brown's standard "Cold Sweat" and includes other pop covers such as "Everybody's Talkin' at Me" and a thumping, purely instrumental version of Isaac Hayes' "Theme From Shaft," with a dash of reggae sun splashed in from "Montego Bay." According to the liner notes (the originals from Purdie Good), Purdie patterned the bands on this release (which included pianists Harold Wheeler and Neal Creque, guitarists Billy Nichols, Ted Dunbar and Lloyd Davis, bassist Norman Edwards and Norman Pride on congas) after the soul/rock stylings of Blood Sweat & Tears. If that's truly the case, Legends of Acid Jazz: The Best of Bernard Purdie pulsates and burns with soul/rock fire that thoroughly and absolutely eclipses Purdie's original inspiration. This is the sound of funky jazz from the end of the 1960s, so funky and swinging it just about dares you to stand still and not dance. Chris Slawecki, All Music Guide

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