State Department, without discussing the music.
Reviews sometimes focused solely upon the band's work with the U.S. The group recreated the formula with more arrangements by Lipsius. The album was another success, spawning hit singles with Carole King's "Hi-De-Ho" and another Clayton-Thomas composition, "Lucretia MacEvil". The tour and its aftermath is the focus of a 2023 feature length documentary titled "What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?" Īfter returning to the U.S., the group released Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 in June 1970, produced by Roy Halee and Colomby. residency permit to Clayton-Thomas, who had a criminal record in Canada, and had been deported from the U.S. It is now known that the State Department subtly pressured the group into the tour in exchange for a U.S. The band was criticized for allowing itself to be co-opted. government was highly unpopular with "underground" rock fans at the time, some of whom engaged in radical politics. The band went on a United States Department of State-sponsored tour of Eastern Europe in May/June 1970. A film crew caught a few songs, but the band's manager Bennett Glotzer ordered the crew to turn off the cameras and leave the stage since the band had not agreed nor been paid for filming.
The band enjoyed headliner status at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969. It included Nyro's "And When I Die", "You've Made Me So Very Happy" by Berry Gordy and Brenda Holloway, and Clayton-Thomas' "Spinning Wheel". It featured fewer original songs but greater chart success. The self-titled second album, Blood, Sweat & Tears, was produced by Guercio and much of the album was arranged by Lipsius. The new nine-member band debuted at New York's Cafe Au Go Go on June 18, 1968, beginning a two-week residency. Trombonist Halligan moved to organ and Jerry Hyman was added on trombone. Jerry Weiss went on to start the similarly-styled group Ambergris.Ĭolomby and Katz looked for a new vocalist and considered Alex Chilton, Stephen Stills, and Laura Nyro, before deciding on David Clayton-Thomas, a Canadian from Toronto. Trumpeters Randy Brecker and Jerry Weiss also left and were replaced by Lew Soloff and Chuck Winfield. He was soon hired as a record producer at Columbia. Prior to leaving Kooper had already arranged some songs that would be on the second BS&T album. This led to the departure of Kooper in April 1968. Colomby and Katz wanted to hire a stronger lead vocalist. After signing to Columbia Records, the group released Child Is Father to the Man which reached number 47 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart in the United States.Īrtistic differences quickly developed. Audiences were impressed with the innovative fusion of contemporary styles. The octet debuted at the Cafe Au Go Go on November 17–19, 1967, then played The Scene the following week. A few more shows were played before Lipsius recruited horn players Dick Halligan, Randy Brecker, and Jerry Weiss. įred Lipsius (alto sax, piano) joined the others a month later. Kooper was the initial singer and musical director, having insisted on that position based on his work with the Blues Project, his previous band with Katz. Al Kooper era Īl Kooper (keyboards, vocals), Bobby Colomby (drums), Steve Katz (guitar, vocals), and Jim Fielder (bass) played at the Village Theatre (later renamed Fillmore East) in New York City on September 16, 1967, with James Cotton Blues Band opening. BS&T's success paralleled that of similarly configured ensembles such as Chicago and the Electric Flag, but by the mid 1970s the group's popularity had declined. The group was inspired by the "brass-rock" of the Buckinghams and their producer, James William Guercio, as well as the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra. The group has also adapted music from Erik Satie, Thelonious Monk and Sergei Prokofiev into their arrangements. In addition to original music, the group is known for arrangements of popular songs by Laura Nyro, James Taylor, Carole King, the Band, the Rolling Stones, Billie Holiday and many others. The follow-up album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3, also reached number one in the U.S. All of these peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
It contained the hit recordings " And When I Die", " You've Made Me So Very Happy", and " Spinning Wheel".
charts in 1969 and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1970. The group's self-titled second album spent seven weeks atop the U.S. Their sound has merged rock, pop and R&B/ soul music with big band jazz. BS&T has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a wide range of musical styles. Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as " BS&T") is an American jazz rock music group founded in New York City in 1967, noted for a combination of brass with rock instrumentation.
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