Bernard Pretty Purdie & the Playboys - Stand by me (1971)

Stand By Me 4:55

Modern Jive 3:18

Spanish Harlem 3:29

Artificialness 3:05

Never Can Say Goodbye 3:00

Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get 5:13

It's Too Late 4:30

Funky Mozart 3:00

You've Got A Friend 3:51.

Bongos, Congas – Norman Pride

Drums – Pretty Purdie

Electric Bass – Chuck Rainey

Guitar – Billy Nichols, Cornell Dupree

Harpsichord, Tambourine – Neal Rosengarden*

Horns [Reeds] – Billy Mitchell, Don Ashworth, Lou Delgatto, Seldon Powell, Warren Daniels

Piano, Electric Piano, Arranged By, Conductor – Harold Wheeler

Trumpet – Snooky Young*, Gerry Thomas

Vocals – Carl Hall, Hilda Harris, Norma Jenkins, Tasha Thomas

Recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios, NYC, August 12 & 13, 1971.

Bernard Purdie - Purdie Good! (1971)

1.Cold Sweat 5:30
2.Montego Bay 5:40
3.Purdie Good 6:20
4.Wasteland 6:10
5.Everybody's Talkin' 5:14
6.You Turn Me On 6:20.

Bass Fender - Gordon Edwards

Congas - Norman Pride

Drums - Bernard Purdie

Electric Piano - Harold Wheeler

Guitar - Billy Nichols,Ted Dunbar

Saxophone Tenor - Charlie Brown,Warren Daniels

Trumpet - Tippy Larkin.

Bernard "Pretty" Purdie - Legends Of Acid Jazz (1996)

01.Cold Sweat

02.Montego Bay

03.Purdie Good

04.Wasteland

05.Everybody's Talkin'

06.You Turn Me On

07.Theme From Shaft

08.Way Back Home

09.Attica

10.Changes

11.Summer Melody

12.Butterfingers.

Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (drums)

Ted Dunbar, Billy Nichols (guitar)

Charlie Brown (tenor saxophone, trumpet)

Warren Daniels, Willie Bridges (tenor saxophone)

Danny Moore, Gerry Thomas, Houston Person (trumpet)

Harold Wheeler, Neal Creque (electric piano)

Norman Pride (congas).

Recorded in October 1972 and June 1973.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1971).

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.