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Bernard Purdie & Friends at The Falcon

Courtesy of Sally Lynch | Posted on February 18, 2015

Where

The Falcon
1348 Rte 9w
Marlboro, NY
Map
845-236-7970

When

Sat, March 14, 2015
8:00 pm

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Musicians

About

www.bernardpurdie.com Which musician did Aretha Franklin definitely NOT want missing from the line-up when she recorded her most inspired albums at the beginning of the seventies. Who provided the back-beat for Steely Dan's "Aja", and for whom have Isaac Hayes, Donny Hathaway, B.B. King, "Sweet" Lou Donaldson, Joe Cocker and Hank Crawford reserved that stool behind the drum kit? The list is incomplete; it must be, because no other drummer in the last three decades has seen the interior of a recording studio as often as Bernard "Pretty" Purdie. The 57 year-old native of Elkton, Maryland has laid down the beat on over 3000 albums to date....

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