West (May 19, 1971) and King Curtis's Live At Fillmore West (1971). His best known track with Franklin was "Rock Steady", on which he played what he described as "a funky and low down beat". Of his time with Franklin he once commented that "backing her was like floating in seventh heaven". Purdie was credited on the soundtrack album for the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) and later he was the drummer for the 2009 Broadway revival of Hair and appeared on the associated Broadway cast recording. In 2016, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in music by Five Towns College. Purdie has been a resident of New Jersey, living in Edison, Teaneck and Springfield Township. Encounter Records Purdie founded Encounter Records in 1973 and released five albums: EN 3000: Seldon Powell – Messin' With Seldon Powell (with Jimmy Owens, Garnett Brown) EN 3001: Sands of Time – Profile (with Jimmy Owens, Garnett Brown, Seldon Powell) EN 3002: East Coast – East Coast (with Larry Blackmon, Gwen Guthrie, Haras Fyre) EN 3003: Frank Owens – Brown 'N' Serve (with Hugh McCracken) EN 3004: Harold Vick as "Sir Edward" – The Power of Feeling (with Victor Gaskin) Drumming style Purdie is known as a groove drummer with immaculate timing who makes use of precision half note, backbeats, and grooves. Purdie's signature sixteenth note hi-hat lick pish-ship, pish-ship, pish-ship is distinct. He often employs a straight eight groove sometimes fusing several influences such as swing, blues and funk. He created the now well-known drum pattern Purdie Half-Time Shuffle that is a blues shuffle variation with the addition of syncopated ghost notes on the snare drum. Variations on this shuffle can be heard on songs such as Led Zeppelin's "Fool in the Rain", the Police's "Walking on the Moon", and Toto's "Rosanna" (Rosanna shuffle). Purdie plays the shuffle on Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters" and "Home At Last". Discography As leader/co-leader Soul Drums (Date/Columbia, 1967) Purdie Good! (Prestige, 1971) [note: reissued as Legends of Acid Jazz: Bernard Purdie in 1996] Stand by Me (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get) (Mega Records [in the 'Flying Dutchman Series'], 1972) with The Playboys Soul Is... Pretty Purdie (Flying Dutchman, 1972; reissued on BGP/Ace in 2014) Shaft (Prestige, 1973) recorded 1971 [note: reissued as Legends of Acid Jazz: Bernard Purdie in 1996] Lialeh (Original Movie Soundtrack) (Bryan, 1974) Delights of the Garden (Douglas/Celluloid, 1975) with The