Bernard Purdie & Friends at Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center

About

BERNARD PURDIE was born June 11, 1939 in Elkton, Maryland. Purdie moved to New York and played with Lonnie Youngblood before landing his first hit with King Curtis. This led to his engagement with Aretha Franklin in 1970. Purdie has been a regular guest in the studio with Steely Dan, Paul Butterfield, Larry Coryell, Miles Davis, Hall & Oates, Al Kooper, Herbie Mann, Todd Rundgren, Cat Stevens, Isaac Hayes, Donny Hathaway, B.B. King, "Sweet" Lou Donaldson, Joe Cocker and Hank Crawford as well as regularly producing his own solo albums under his own name. Bernard "Pretty" Purdie laid down the beat on over 3000 albums to date.