- Source: Shaft (Bernard Purdie album)
Shaft is an album led by jazz drummer Bernard Purdie, which was recorded for the Prestige label in 1971.
Reception
Stewart Mason of Allmusic states, "these limp retreads, apparently aimed at a middle-of-the-road audience that was reaching for hipness but didn't want to be confronted with anything too out there, are utterly unnecessary. There are a handful of good tunes here; although it's unclear what the genial funk groove "Attica" has to do with the 1971 prison riot of the same name, it's got some hot tenor sax solos and a rollicking electric piano solo by composer Neal Creque. Similarly, the mellow and soulful "Summer Melody" has some exquisite electric piano and trumpet over its gentle conga-led groove. An album' s worth of variations on these two themes would have been a minor soul-jazz classic, but unfortunately, Bernard Purdie's overreaching ends up giving him the, um, Shaft".
Track listing
"Shaft" (Isaac Hayes) - 5:52
"Way Back Home" (Wilton Felder) - 5:30
"Attica" (Neal Creque) - 4:12
"Changes" (Buddy Miles) - 4:52
"Summer Melody" (Harold Ousley) - 6:35
"Butterfingers" (Willie Bridges) - 4:12
Personnel
Bernard Purdie - drums
Danny Moore, Gerry Thomas - trumpet
Willie Bridges, Charlie Brown, Houston Person - tenor saxophone
Neal Creque - electric piano
Billy Nichols, Lloyd Davis - guitar
Gordon Edwards - electric bass
Norman Pride - congas
= Production
=Bob Porter - producer
Rudy Van Gelder - engineer
Sample use
"Changes" has been sampled in "Block Rockin' Beats" by The Chemical Brothers, from its 1997 album Dig Your Own Hole, and in "Chiron" by Four Tet, from his first album Dialogue (1999).
References
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- Shaft (Bernard Purdie album)
- Shaft
- Bernard Purdie
- Summer Melody
- Soul Is... Pretty Purdie
- Stand by Me (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get)
- Neal Creque
- Houston Person
- 1971 in music
- List of Equinox episodes
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