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Bernard Purdie Purdie Good Rar5/3/2021
The way he pounds the drums on this album is by turns ferocious, masterful, tender, syncopated, and sensual, almost as though he is intent on making love to the drum kit with his flailing arms and legs.Good dynamics, channel separation with wide soundstage, flat and with low surface noise.I will definitely will not categorize this as an audiophile grade towards the mastering but definitely a good pressing.The LP is heavy at 180 grams, perfectly flat, centered, and dead quiet.
Not a single click, pop, or static sound to be heard - just pure audio fidelity. Easily one of the best sounding LPs I own, and definitely the highlight of RSD 2019 for me. If you like Purdie, or any soulRBFunk music, then this is a must have. Pretty Purdie (1972) and the soundtrack for the blaxploitation film Lialeh (1973). He later took lessons from Heywood and played in Heywoods big band. Purdies other influences at that time were Papa Jo Jones, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Joe Marshall, Art Blakey, 6 as well as Cozy Cole, Sticks Evans, Panama Francis, Louis Bellson, and Herbie Lovelle. There he played sessions with Mickey and Sylvia and regularly visited the Turf Club on 50th and Broadway, where musicians, agents, and promoters met and touted for business. It was during this period that he played for the saxophonist Buddy Lucas, who nicknamed him Mississippi Bigfoot. Eventually Barney Richmond contracted him to play session work. In a 1978 interview, Purdie claimed to have added drum overdubs to several tracks of the Beatles Hamburg recording with Tony Sheridan, 8 including Aint She Sweet, Take Out Some Insurance On Me Baby and Sweet Georgia Brown, 9 to give them a punchier sound for the US market. ![]() Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) and more recently he was the drummer for the 2009 Broadway revival of Hair and appeared on the associated Broadway cast recording. He created the now well-known drum pattern Purdie Half-Time Shuffle that is a blues shuffle variation with the addition of syncopated ghost notes on the snare drum. Variations on this shuffle can be heard on songs such as Led Zeppelin s Fool in the Rain, the Police s Walking on the Moon, and Toto s Rosanna ( Rosanna shuffle ). ![]() Oxford University Press US. Cite uses deprecated parameter lastauthoramp ( help ). Get Locked. Alfred Publishing. Archived 2011-10-01 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 1 April 2013. The Beatles from Cavern to Star-Club: The Illustrated Chronicle, Discography Price Guide 19571962. Say It Loud-Im Black and Im Proud. ![]() Purdie eventually moved to Jersey Teaneck and Edison before settling in Springfield. JungleDrum n Bass for the Acoustic Drum Set: A Guide to Applying Todays Electronic Music to the Drum Set. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
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