(1) Bernard Purdie Amazing Drum Solo at the Green Mill, Chicago 4/11/15

April 11, 2015
@ the Green Mill. Chicago, IL
Bernard was playing with the George Freeman Quartet at Georges 88th birthday celebration
George Freeman - guitar
Bernard “Pretty” Purdie - drums
Mike Allemana - guitar
Pete Benson - Hammond B-3 organ
Please check my channel for more Bernard Purdie solos and videos from this same evening

[@PelagoA]

This is the Sound of Paradise as far as I am concerned !!!

[@noelhaddad5673]

Very musical and artistic

[@rayszymarek2920]

Woke up this morning and was treated to this fabulous drumstick composition of the one and only Bernard Purdie. Wow and Wow and Drum Wow Wow. Bernard here is playing a drum solo and he is happy and more happy. His exuberance is passed on to the audience. We Love Bernard Purdie and anyone who listens to this man is given a super opportunity to be happy and love life more than ever. Bernard Purdie is that man sent down from heaven above to please people who love music. Bernard we Love you and your drums. Bernard Purdie the man the legend,. thank you for being sent down from heaven above to play your drums.

[@graciegolden2290]

Bernard Purdie. Just so sweet. Thanks Kenyatta. I just love the rendition of Tighten it Up.

[@thecustomer1782]

Smooth as honey!

[@fleetwoodbrawm]

I don't think ive ever see Bernard play the same kit twice..hahahaha even in old magazines, he must have endorsed everybody plus he seems to just show up and play whatever is there... amazing! God Bless him!

[@bllnel8494]

He's a player by god.

[@erickouniakis5722]

True legend !!!

[@fredvonbreuer6998]

I love him!

[@Butch3727]

Dropped sticks. Still in pocket! Thanks for post!

[@charlescainv5722]

This dude is so clean and is so human at the same time its magic. Seeing someone of this caliber drop a stick can give hope to us all

[@426Hemiroadrunner]

That man is bad ass on the drums. He is good real good

[@loilt5091]

Bernard Purdie’s the man‼️ Recollection: The Green Mill’s a deco era speakeasy in Chicago. It was once Al Capone’s right hand man’s nightclub, “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn. Al’s table was right beside the exit, a quick getaway & vantage point where he could see things. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_McGurn

[@shropsiberian]

That beat though at 3.26 just before he loses the stick 😵😵👏🏻👏🏻

[@koomky]

Great

[@user-rh5yf2wz8l]

Ballroom Blitz uses some of this beat

[@clearlyhazed11]

Bad to the bone !!! Keep kicking 😁

[@JesseP.Watson]

For Purdy, looked like he was having some difficulty feeling it that night. The crowd doesn't seem to hear it but he actually lost it at 1:28... And his groove wavers, just a touch, at other moments. Can't have slept the night before or something... Still, he is actually human! Thanks for giving us mere mortals hope Mr Purdy. :-)

[@funklover24]

May be you are a good mathematician, but are you a good musician? Searching for something that might be a mistake - I am not sure if it is one, may be Bernard wanted it like this, may be he just wanted to have fun with the audience. But I dislike your way of over-analyzing a master, who is 75 years old in this video and still giving more fun and groove than 99 % of all drummers in the world. Would you play better or are you just a narcist presenting his "excellent ears" and writing BS about "can't have slept"? And how will you be drumming this age? Will you still be able to transmit the positivity, Bernard is giving here? Are you able to do so now?

[@JesseP.Watson]

@@funklover24 I play the drums and am in awe of Purdy's playing, I adore the man and have spent countless hours trying to do just a little of what this amazing (75 year old) man does. This is a master worthy of study and study him I have, along with coutless others. He's an educator too, you see. I'm not a mathematician but I do have a grasp of time signatures. I am very aware of timing, it goes with the territory - Bernard's territory, every drummer worth his salt's territory. Listening to this gig I felt Purdy's pulse wobble - just for a split second but that kind of thing jumps out to a drummer - we don't have to be 'searching for mistakes'... my point was this: that's the only time I've felt Purdy's groove wobble and I've listened to an awful lot of Purdy playing and teaching the drums. Purdy's music makes me dance, his passion makes me smile, his jive makes me laugh too, I hope to God I get the chance to see him while he still plays! ...I've considered travelling the Atlantic to say thanks to the man in person - there's few people I'd rather meet. ...So, hearing a tiny timing error from this idol of mine was, at that moment, inspirational... when you're practicing to try to master an instrument it's important to know that your idols are not an alien species that are perfect and flawless (just damn close!). ...It gives those of us yet to get there a hope. If you believe that disrespectful you're missing my point entirely. So, perhaps it is you old bean who are yet to realise how amazing Purdy's music really is... and what super-human skill his (otherwise) flawless timing and groove requires... how difficult it is to attain that kind of mastery of this instrument. ...Because if Purdy's playing and you're not listening with yoir full attention... dude... who's missing a trip here?

[@funklover24]

@@JesseP.Watson I think you're missing Bernard's trip of positivity. You are such a phantastic musician, that you need to tell the world you found a mistake. Cheers on this pulse wobble bubble! You can be really proud! :D

[@JesseP.Watson]

@@funklover24 Been listening to an incredible Joe Rogan pod cast over the last few days with Brian Cox, mind blowing stuff, Brian's a physicist ...And bloody clever. Their conversation takes the mind on a glittering journey through the cosmos, spanning in titanic leaps from the birth of our universe, through the course of that matter's route to solidifying and, ebentually spawning single celled organisms... over three billion years life was noight but slime... and then, remarably, through a freak occurence, two of these incredibly basic life forms collided and somehow coexisted in the same cell... and that miracle saw the beginning of the evolution of complex living organisms on this planet leading to our eventual arrival on the scene... the point Brian was making there was that, though there are likely to be many planets supporting extremely basic life in our universe the chances of it developing into complex, intelligent organisms is extremely rare and therefore it is possible we may be the only intelligent life in our galaxy.

[@michaelcaplin8969]

@@funklover24 Dude, you've got it all wrong. Don't be such a bullshitting kiss ass. Bernard freaking messed up to hell and back, there's no debating that for anyone who has working ears and a grasp on good time, but Watson's Bubble doesn't think any less of Bernard for that matter. As he said, he has studied Purdie's drumming and how he does it. Another thing he understands, which I think more people should understand, is that these guys aren't some sort of super heroes. They are just like you, just having practiced a lot more (most likely) AND (and this is a big one) were at the right place at the right time. If you were his age and started drumming back at the same time Bernard started, you could yourself have been in the position Purdie is in now. These are normal people who did two things. 1: commited like FUCK to practicing and getting good. 2: were EXTREMELY lucky and were at the right place at the right time with the right talent for things to start snowballing into a career. There are way too many Purdies, Porcaro's and Gadd's out there who never got their break, but have the same genius and talent.

[@thomasdebiase1460]

Good playing. Amazing?

[@gabrielmorton7030]

One of - if not the most - recorded drummers ever