When talking about drummer Bernard “Pretty” Purdie’s impact on music, it’s tempting to merely list the sheer number of legendary artists he has performed with over the last 60 years including Aretha ...

Bernard Purdie, Questlove, Mike Clark and Greg Errico talk about their lives behind the drums in Red Bull Radio's new four-part series, Give The Drummer Some. Drum lessons don’t any more exciting than ...

I’ve got some good people working with me. You’ve got to get folks that you trust. That’s been the biggest thing. That’s been the biggest part of this whole career. Bernard Purdie: That's what it was ...

*Bernard “Pretty” Purdie is the only musician who can rightfully claim to have played for legendary artists that, in a short list, includes Nina Simone, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, Mongo Santamaria, ...

Musicians have called Bernard Purdie one of the most recorded drummers in history and his style is described as “the funkiest soul beat in the business.” From Nina Simone to Steely Dan, Joe Cocker to ...

As session drummers go, few are able to get close to the prolific output and phenomenal feel of Bernard Purdie. With over 4,000 credits to his name, even Purdie admits that an examination of the ...

Bernard "Pretty" Purdie is on the shortlist of the hardest-working drummers in the history of recorded music. The list of artists he's worked with, on the other hand, is quite long: Duke Ellington, ...

Bernard Purdie is called “The Most Recorded Drummer In History”, and his style is described by fellow musicians as “the funkiest soul beat in the business”. From Nina Simone to Steely Dan, Bob Marley ...

About two and a half minutes into the 1972 recording of funk missile “Rock Steady,” Aretha Franklin’s sheet music fell from her piano onto the floor. The horns and rhythm instruments dropped out, but ...

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, ...

Bernard Purdie, Questlove, Mike Clark and Greg Errico talk about their lives behind the drums in Red Bull Radio's new four-part series, Give The Drummer Some. Written by Chris ParkinPublished on 14.02 ...