Bernard Purdie - Purdie Good!

Purdie Good! is an album led by jazz drummer Bernard Purdie which was recorded for the Prestige label in 1971

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.