Bernard Purdie – Purdie Good

Bernard Purdie – Purdie Good

Tracklist:
Side A

Cold Sweat
Montego Bay
Purdie Good

Side B

Wasteland
Everybody’s Talkin’
You Turn Me On

In between being one of the most recorded studio drummers of all time, the beat-maestro extraordinaire Bernard Purdie squeezed in a few sessions of his own. Purdie Good! was recorded early in 1971 by legendary engineer and audio obsessive Rudy Van Gelder, at his bespoke studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and has all the quality hallmarks of that esteemed locale. Three Purdie-penned originals are balanced by three covers of hits-du-jour, utmost among them a blazing romp through James Brown’s “Cold Sweat.”

Credits:
Bass [Fender] – Gordon Edwards
Congas – Norman Pride
Design – Don Schlitten
Drums – Bernard Purdie
Electric Piano – Harold Wheeler
Guitar – Billy Nichols, Ted Dunbar
Lacquer Cut By – Van Gelder*
Photography By – Al Johnson
Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder
Supervised By, Liner Notes [April, 1971] – Bob Porter
Tenor Saxophone – Charlie Brown, Warren Daniels
Trumpet – Tippy Larkin