New Blood

Performer: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Producer: Bobby Colomby
Distributor: Bayside Record Dist.

Notes: Blood, Sweat & Tears: Steve Katz, Bobby Colomby. Personnel: Steve Katz (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica); George Wadenius (vocals, guitar, electric guitar, Spanish guitar); Lew Soloff (vocals, piccolo, trumpet, flugelhorn); Chuck Winfield (vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn, baritone horn); Dave Bargeron (vocals, trombone, tenor trombone, bass trombone, tuba, baritone horn, percussion); Bobby Colomby (vocals, drums, percussion); Jerry Fisher, Jerry Fischer, Jim Fielder (vocals); Larry Willis (keyboards); Lou Marini (wind). Arrangers: Dave Bargeron; Jim Fielder; Blood, Sweat & Tears; Bobby Doyle. The first Blood, Sweat & Tears disc following the departure of lead singer David Clayton-Thomas and chief arrangers Dick Halligan and Fred Lipsius has its moments. The band vocals on "Touch Me" and the arrangement of Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage" are among the highlights, but then there's Bob Dylan's "Down in the Flood" and Steve Katz's "Velvet" (about a horse, for Pete's sake!). Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "Snow Queen" almost makes up for it, with sensational solos from Dave Bargeron on trombone and Lou Marini on sax. ~ Ross Boissoneau

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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