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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: The Godfathers of Groove featuring Bernard Purdie\,
  Ruben Wilson & Grant Green Jr.\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/even
 t/detail/440824867/The_Godfathers_of_Groove_featuring_Bernard_Purdie_Ruben
 _Wilson_Grant_Green_Jr\nEvent Date Begin: 2010-07-29\nEvent Date End: 2010
 -07-29\n\nThe Godfathers of Groove are an All-Star group comprised of Reub
 en Wilson on the Hammond B3\, Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie on drums\, and Grant
  Green Jr. on guitar.  In the late 60s\, organist Reuben Wilson began asce
 nding to his current status as a 'godfather' of acid-jazz with 'On Broadwa
 y'\, the first in a string of albums for Blue Note Records. With these rec
 ordings Wilson revealed a command of funk that helped redefine the soul ja
 zz movement created by the likes of Jimmy Smith\, Jimmy McGriff and Richar
 d 'Groove' Holmes.  Bernard Purdie was born June 11\, 1939 in Elkton\, Mar
 yland as the eleventh of fifteen children. At 14 years of age he purchased
  his first real drum set and became the most important provider for the fa
 mily - earning his pay with country and carnival bands. Purdie moved to Ne
 w York in 1960 and played with (among others)\, Lonnie Youngblood before l
 anding his first hit with King Curtis. This led to his engagement with Are
 tha Franklin in 1970 - the beginning of an unparalleled career. Since then
 \, Purdie has been a regular guest in the studios of the stars of Jazz\, S
 oul\, and Rock\, working together with Paul Butterfield\, Larry Coryell\, 
 Miles Davis\, Hall & Oates\, Al Kooper\, Herbie Mann\, Todd Rundgren and C
 at Stevens\, Steely Dan's 'Aja'\, Isaac Hayes\, Donny Hathaway\, B.B. King
 \, 'Sweet' Lou Donaldson\, Joe Cocker and Hank Crawford to name a just a f
 ew. No other drummer in the last three decades has seen the interior of a 
 recording studio as often as Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie. Purdie has laid down
  the beat on over 3000 albums to date.  As the son of legendary jazz guita
 rist Grant Green (1931-1979)\, Grant Green Jr. was exposed to exceptional 
 musicianship and superb guitar playing right from the start. Growing up in
  the Palmer Woods section of Detroit\, Grant enjoyed a constant parade of 
 jazz greats streaming through his living room and at the tender age of fiv
 e\, with his hands barely big enough to grasp the guitar\, Grant Jr. playe
 d his first chords. Grant eventually settled in New York City where he fin
 e-tuned his craft in the many blues and jazz clubs throughout Manhattan. H
 is ability to blend funky grooves with the melodic soul-jazz and blues mad
 e him a popular session player and musician's musician.\n\nStart time: 8pm
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SUMMARY:The Godfathers of Groove featuring Bernard Purdie\, Ruben Wilson & 
 Grant Green Jr.
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