Blood, Sweat & Tears - Discography (1968-2020) AAC

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. BS&T has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a wide range of musical styles. Their sound has merged rock, pop and R&B/soul music with big band jazz.

The group's self-titled second album spent seven weeks atop the U.S. charts in 1969 and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1970. It contained the hit recordings "And When I Die", "You've Made Me So Very Happy", and "Spinning Wheel". All of these peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The follow-up album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3, also reached number one in the U.S.

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 group has also adapted music from Erik Satie, Thelonious Monk and Sergei Prokofiev into their arrangements.

The group was inspired by the "brass-rock" of the Buckinghams and their producer, James William Guercio, as well as the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra. 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.

Studio (10:56:26)
1968 - Child Is Father To The Man (1997, Sony SRCS9274, Japan) (00:49:14)
1968 - Child Is Father To The Man (2014 RM, Hybrid SACD, Audio Fidelity AFZ195, US) (00:49:24)
1969 - Blood, Sweat & Tears (1993, Sony SRCS6311, Japan) (00:45:29)
1969 - Blood, Sweat & Tears (2015, 2014 RM, Hybrid SACD, Audio Fidelity AFZ5 198, US) (00:45:53)
1970 - Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 (2003 RM, SACD, MFSL UDSACD2013, US) (00:42:40)
1971 - B, S & T 4 (1998, Grammy JPCD9901105, RU) (00:40:35)
1971 - B, S & T 4 (2016 RM, Hybrid SACD, Columbia-Analogue Prod. CAPP088SA, Austria) (00:40:54)
1972 - New Blood (2005, Wounded Bird WOU1780, US) (00:40:26)
1973 - No Sweat (2005, Wounded Bird WOU2180, US) (00:41:20)
1974 - Mirror Image (2005, Wounded Bird WOU2929, US) (00:49:08)
1975 - New City (2003, Unofficial, Not On Label, RU) (00:59:43)
1976 - More Than Ever (2003, Wounded Bird WOU4233, US) (00:38:58)
1977 - Brand New Day (2000, Unofficial, JPCD2003147, RU) (01:09:48)
1980 - Nuclear Blues (1995, Avenue Rec. R2 71922, US) (00:42:54)

Lives (03:36:09)
1976 - In Concert (LP, CBS 22006, CBS 81156, Holland) (01:29:14)
1994 - Live 1980 (2002, Unofficial, BSTCD10020304, RU) (01:13:04)
2019 - Live At Woodstock 1969 (Unofficial, Columbia-Legacy) (00:53:51)

Compilations (13:53:54)
1972 - Greatest Hits (2016 RM, Hybrid SACD, Audio Fidelity AFZ241, US) (00:41:15)
1995 - Definitive Collection (RM, Columbia 480546 9, EU) - 2CD (01:39:07)
1995 - What Goes Up! The Best Of Blood, Sweat & Tears (Legacy-Columbia 481019 2, UK) - 2CD (02:17:42)
1998 - Super Hits (Columbia 4987922, Austria) (00:44:30)
2004 - Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 & 4 (Edsel Rec. DIAB 8056, EU) (01:19:21)
2004 - The Best Of Blood, Sweat & Tears (Some Wax SW351-2, RU) (01:01:46)
2012 - New Blood + No Sweat + More Than Ever (RM, BGO Rec. BGOCD1074, GB) - 2CD (02:00:42)
2013 - Rare, Rarer & Rarest (Wounded Bird WOU3040, US) (00:56:55)
2014 - The Complete Columbia Singles (Real Gone RGM-0211, USA) - 2CD (01:51:57)
2020 - Mirror Image + New City (RM Hybrid SACD, Vocalion CDSML8572, Austria) (01:20:39)

2009 - Original Album Classics (5CD Box Set, Sony Music 88697445532, EU) (04:17:41)
1968 - Child Is Father To The Man (01:03:59)
1969 - Blood, Sweat & Tears (01:09:30)
1970 - Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 (00:42:49)
1971 - Blood, Sweat & Tears 4 (00:41:00)
1972 - New Blood (00:40:23)

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