Shaft (Bernard Purdie album)
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| Studio album by Bernard Purdie | ||||
| Released | 1973 | |||
| Recorded | October 11, 1971 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs |
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| Genre | Jazz | |||
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Prestige PR 10038 |
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| Producer | Bob Porter | |||
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| Allmusic |    |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |
Shaft is an album led by jazz drummer Bernard Purdie which was recorded for the Prestige label in 1971.
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".
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