Bernard Purdie's first album as a leader for Prestige - cut right after he'd hipped up plenty of other sessions for the label with his famous funky drums! The groove here is very much in the best Prestige jazz funk mode of the early 70s - tightly vamping rhythms that draw heavily from Purdie's monstrous drums - and which also offer solo showcase space for Harold Wheeler on electric piano, Ted Dunbar on guitar, Tippy Larkin on trumpet, and Charlie Brown and Warren Daniels on tenor. Rhythm is augmented by Gordon Edwards on Fender bass and Norman Pride on congas - and the grooves hit a variety of modes that show that Purdie could sometimes be a more open-thinking rhythmatist than his funky contemporary Idris Muhammad.
1. Cold Sweat
2. Montego Bay
3. Purdie Good
4. Wasteland
5. Everybody's Talkin'
6. You Turn Me On
