Shaft (Bernard Purdie album)
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Shaft is an album led by jazz drummer Bernard Purdie which was recorded for the Prestige label in 1971.[1][2]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [3] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [4] |
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".[3]
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
Sample use
- "Changes" has been sampled in "Block Rockin' Beats" by The Chemical Brothers, from their 1997 album Dig Your Own Hole[5], and in "Chiron" by Four Tet, from his first album Dialogue (1999)[6].
References
- ^ Prestige Records discography accessed July 3, 2013
- ^ Bernard Purdie discography accessed July 3, 2013
- ^ a b Mason, S. Allmusic listing accessed July 1, 2013.
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 164. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ https://www.whosampled.com/sample/30264/The-Chemical-Brothers-Block-Rockin%27-Beats-Bernard-Purdie-Changes/
- ^ https://www.whosampled.com/sample/129890/Four-Tet-Chiron-Bernard-Purdie-Changes/