Results for "Bernard Purdie"

Bernard Purdie

Born: June 11, 1939

Bernard Purdie was born June 11, 1939 in Elkton, Maryland as the eleventh of fifteen children. Purdie began already as a six-year-old to bang out rhythms on improvised equipment. At 14 years of age he purchased his first real drum set and became the most important provider for the family - earning his pay with country and carnival bands. This "schooling" enabled Purdie to "feel my way into nearly every kind of music, 'cause I had to know all styles and was never afraid to try something new." Purdie moved to New York in 1960 after finishing high school and played with (among others), Lonnie Youngblood before landing his first hit with King Curtis

Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Version

By Charlie Rouse

Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Backwoods Echo; Disenchantment; A New Dawn; Quiet Pictures; Clove and Cinnamon; Roots; Waiting on the Corner.

Shuffle Demons: They Are for Real... Really

by Dean Nardi
October 13, 2025

On the Shuffle Demons' Are You Really Real (Alma Records 2025), the uncategorizable Toronto band knits together traditional jazz, modern funk playfulness, blues, rap and the sensuality of Prince. For an ensemble that has been a going concern for 40 years, they maintain an optimistic, let's-go-for-something-new outlook, reflected in their flamboyant retro clothing that resembles that ...

Take Five with Saxophonist Noah Peterson

by AAJ Staff
January 16, 2025

Meet Noah Peterson While his troubadour days are behind him, Noah continues to have musical adventures. From his many bands and explorations of different genres of music Noah always has his fingers in something. His latest adventure includes his brand new quartet recording of all original music Coming Home To You and the rebirth of The ...

Exotic Materials In Development

By David Haney

Label: Cadence Jazz Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Warning - Exotic Materials In Development In the Desert - with Cheryl Pyle, Kirk Knuffke, Dave Storrs; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development Track Five Folk Blues; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - No. 11 with Dave Sewelson and Dave Storrs; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - Musicians Wren with Cheryl Pyle, Dave Sewelson and Dave Storrs; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development with Dave Sewelson and Bernard Purdie; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - The Creation with Dave Sewelson and Dave Storrs; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - with Kirk Knuffke; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development Track 20 Trio; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - Pretty Prancing Hangup with Cheryl Pyle; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - with Cheryl Pyle; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - with Kirk Knuffke; Warning - Exotic Materials In Development - with Dave Sewelson.

Meet Drummer Danny Gottlieb

by Mike Brannon
March 16, 2024

This article was first published at All About Jazz in January 2001. If you don't know drummer Danny Gottlieb or you know him from only the earliest incarnations of the Pat Metheny Group, there's a lot you don't know about this talented, multi-faceted musician. Not complacent to rest on past laurels of any kind, ...

Les McCann: Never Say No Again

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 2, 2024

"Be who you are and not who you ain't. Because when you are who you ain't, you're not who you are." Keyboardist, vocalist, bandleader, songwriter and photographer Les McCann really talks like this. About his music, about musicians, about his career--about everything. I learned this during the following interview, scheduled to discuss Omnivore Records' ...

Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf: Bernard Purdie and David Axelrod

by C. Andrew Hovan
April 5, 2023

As part of Concord Music and Craft Recordings, the Jazz Dispensary line was developed in 2016 to mine some of the funkier and more soul-influenced music housed in the catalogs of Prestige, Milestone, and Fantasy. Their initial offerings were mix tape-style collections frequently tapping into the mystique of the '70s and often appearing on Record Store ...

José James: Why The Female Of The Species Is Groovier Than The Male

by Peter Jones
April 4, 2023

Jazz singer José James considers Erykah Badu to be the Joni Mitchell of his generation, a woman who has constructed a world of her own in order to tell her own alternative story. To prove the point, earlier this year he released On & On (Rainbow Blonde), a whole album of Badu songs, which he has ...

Larry Coryell's Souls Dirge

by Michael Ricci
March 23, 2023