Genres: Psychedelic, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Jazz-Rock, Album Rock, AM Pop Active: 60's, 70's Formed: 1967 in NY
The Buckinghams, The Blues Project, Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, Thad Jones, Don Ellis, Miles Davis, Traffic, Sly & the Family Stone, Otis Redding, Laura Nyro, Randy Newman, Carole King, The Isley Brothers, Tim Buckley, Gil Evans The Blues Project, Three Dog Night, David Clayton-Thomas, Al Kooper, Joe Cocker, Chicago, Chase, The Royal Teens, Lighthouse, Cold Blood, Pacific Gas & Electric, Don Ellis, Traffic, The Rascals, Bloodrock, Brooklyn Bridge, Zoo, Neil Diamond, The Ides of March |  |
No American rock group ever started with as much daring or musical promise as Blood, Sweat & Tears, or realized their potential more fully -- and then blew it all as quickly. From their origins as a jazz-rock experiment that wowed critics and listeners, they went on -- in a somewhat more pop vein -- to sell almost six million records in three years, but ended up being dropped by their record label four years after that. Blood, Sweat & Tears started as an idea conceived by Al Kooper in July of 1967. An ex-member of the Blues Project, Kooper had been toying with the notion, growing out of his admiration for jazz bandleader Maynard Ferguson, of forming an electric rock band that would include horns and use jazz as the basis for their work. He planned to pursue this in London, but a series of New York shows involving some big-name friends didn't raise enough money to get him there.
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Release: April 7, 2009
Label: Sony BMG
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Release: January 13, 2008
Label: Forever DVD
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