Blood, Sweat & Tears 3

Performer: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Blood, Sweat & Tears: Steve Katz (vocals, guitar); David Clayton-Thomas (vocals); Dick Halligan (Fred Lipsius (saxophone, piano); Lew Soloff, Chuck Winfield (trumpet, flugelhorn); Jerry Hyman (trombone); Jim Fielder (bass). This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players. Blood, Sweat & Tears: Dick Halligan (vocals, various instruments); Steve Katz (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Fred Lipsius (vocals, alto saxophone, piano, electric piano, music box); Bobby Colomby (vocals, drums, percussion); David Clayton-Thomas (vocals); Jerry Hyman (recorder, trombone, bass trombone); Lew Soloff, Chuck Winfield (piccolo trumpet, trumpet, flugelhorn); Jim Fielder (bass). Includes liner notes by Neil Tesser. Commercially, this was a disappointment after Blood Sweat And Tears' previous eponymous album, which spawned hit singles galore; here, only a sprightly cover of Goffin-King's "Hi-De-Ho" and lead singer David Clayton-Thomas' own "Lucretia Mac Evil" achieved singles chart success. On the other hand, this is probably the most musically ambitious of the band's post-Al Kooper albums, and though it occasionally overreaches--the lengthy jazz suite based on the Stones' "Sympathy For the Devil" is an awkward collision of styles--there are some memorable moments. Clayton-Thomas works a little too hard sometimes (the aforementioned "Lucretia Mac Evil" is a tad overwrought), but he also turns in sensitive readings of some fine cover songs, particularly Laura Nyro's "He's a Runner" and Richard Manuel's "Lonesome Suzie." Meanwhile, the band's instrumental work is at its customary expert level throughout, in particular in a protracted solo section in Joe Cocker's "Something Comin' On."

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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