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Performer: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Engineer: Ed Barton
Producer: Jerry Goldstein
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Blood, Sweat & Tears: David Clayton-Thomas (vocals); Rob Piltch (guitar); Vern Dorge (flute, clarinet, saxophone); Earl Seymour (soprano & baritone saxophone); Bruce Cassidy (trumpet); Richard Martinez (keyboards); Dave Piltch (bass); Bobby Economou (drums). Recorded live at The Street Scene, Los Angeles, California on October 12, 1980. If it has horns and David Clayton Thomas is the lead singer, does that make it Blood, Sweat & Tears? That's the question posed on this 1980 concert set, in which Thomas fronts a set of young musicians, none of whom played on any of the band's hit albums. Whatever you call them, though, there's been a major change in direction. This edition of BS&T is for all intents a fusion jazz band; in fact, the bulk of the album, the "Spanish Wine" suite, is an extended piece that inhabits a musical neighborhood somewhere near Weather Report. Old fans will be pleased to learn that there's also an enthusiastic medley of the band's best known songs, and later Thomas makes a return to his blues roots on an impassioned reading of "I'll Drown in My Own Tears."

As initially conceived by Al Kooper, Blood, Sweat & Tears was the first and best of the jazz-rock horn bands. Though Kooper departed after the debut album, new singer David Clayton-Thomas led the band to huge commercial success with a more pop-oriented approach. BST--in both its Kooper and Clayton-Thomas incarnations--epitomized post-'60s eclecticism, crafting Top 40 hits out of musical influences as disparate as Billie Holiday, Tim Buckley, and Erik Satie.

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