Threefer Thursday: It’s Bernard Purdie’s Birthday! By Mike V

Bernard “Pretty” Purdie - one of the greatest drummers ever - was born on this day in 1939. He’s 87 today. Purdie played with everyone over his long career - Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, Vulfpeck, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, and many, many more.

He developed what is known popularly as the Purdie Shuffle, which has been copied, imitated, sampled, and extolled for decades....

#BernardPurdie #ThreeferThursday…

https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/threefer-thursday-its-bernard-purdies-birthday

I am tediously crafting a #BitwigStudio port of my old #Reason Drum Kits so I can have a particular 'sound'. The exercise is valid in that it is pushing me to concentrate on the mappings of samples, reading the NN-XT sampler settings in Reason and converting these to meaningful information for Bitwig.

There are 9.8k sample files. There are recordings for Room, Close, under the Snare, and Overhead.

I'm building a nifty spreadsheet on #kDrive as a first exercise of working outside of #Google.

And I am listening to #BernardPurdie and #ElvinJones while teasing out the various details.

I am very eager to start programming and making some sounds. #ElectronicMusicProduction

You Never Know Who Your Friends Are is the second solo album by American multi-instrumentalist Al Kooper, issued in 1969 on Columbia Records.

Kooper wasted no time recording this album, coming just seven months after his debut release. It is a continuation of sorts of his debut; the album contains another eclectic mix of rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, pop, and blues, though without the psychedelics that had somewhat permeated through I Stand Alone. Utilizing a large group of musicians under the direction of Charlie Calello, known collectively as "The Al Kooper Big Band", Kooper also strayed away from the heavy string orchestrations of his debut. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwTPJcCBOv4

#alkooper #chuckrainey #bernardpurdie #jimmyknepper #ericgale #1969inmusic