Legends of Acid Jazz

Bernard Purdie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 3, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Prestige
• ASIN: B000000ZFB
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #305,179 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cold Sweat

2. Montego Bay

3. Purdie Good

4. Wasteland

5. Everybody's Talkin'

6. You Turn Me On

7. Theme from Shaft

8. Way Back Home

9. Attica

10. Changes

11. Summer Melody

12. Butterfingers

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but..., November 20, 2000

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Matthias Mazzag (Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legends of Acid Jazz (Audio CD)

Good but lacks a little something. A little something called grit. It's there in 4-5 of the tracks, but the rest don't cut it. Best tracks are 'Butterfinger', 'Attica', 'Changes' and 'Purdie Good'. Some cool electric piano playing on these, and there are about 2 more tunes that you can like, the rest are cheesy fillers. Get Rusty Bryant's or Johnny Hammond's 'Legends...', they're much more satisfying, and come back for this later.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much better than I thought it would be..., August 19, 2005

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M. Conklin (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Legends of Acid Jazz (Audio CD)

although i like just about everything prestige put out in the early 70s, i figured the "this is acid jazz" title was just a marketing ploy to get some hip young kids to buy it, and that it was probably compiled with two of perdie's less than remarkable lps. i was right and i was wrong, but the bottom line is that i'm happy i picked it up. it's not really what i would consider acid jazz (i'm the first to admit you can't really classify the generic term though), but it sure sounds like the predecessor to the sound. it's instrumental beat n' funk jazz and blues with lots of electric keyboards and bass, distorted wah-wah guitar, jb horns-style trumpet and sax, and a groove that is thick throughout. perdie's drumming is tight, but he rarely solos - instead he lets his band take over those duties (but they really don't take over the spotlight). note: it is compiled from two of perdie's albums from 1971 - perdie good & shaft.