Bernard Purdie Purdie Good / Shaft

• 1. Cold Sweat
• 2. Montego Bay
• 3. Purdie Good
• 4. Wasteland
• 5. Everybody's Talkin'
• 6. You Turn Me On
• 7. Theme From Shaft
• 8. Way Back Home
• 9. Attica
• 10. Them Changes
• 11. Summer Melody
• 12. Butterfingers

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 (his love of her music comes over in the heartfelt Soul Sister Number One from his Flying Dutchman album Soul Is...Pretty Purdie.

Shaft and Purdie Good come from 1971 - the latter features one of Network News' favourite guitarists Ted Dunbar, the former (on the title track) none other than Houston Person!