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Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") is an American jazz rock music group founded in New York City in 1967, noted for combining a brass section with rock band 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 Canadian lead singer David Clayton-Thomas was added to the group in 1968 and stayed until 1972, marking their most successful period.

The group's second album, Blood, Sweat & Tears, spent seven weeks atop the U.S. charts in 1969, won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1970, and contained the hit recordings "And When I Die", "You've Made Me So Very Happy", and "Spinning Wheel". On the Hot 100, all three peaked at number 2 for a total of thirteen weeks. The follow-up album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3, also reached number 1 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" sound 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 (also produced by Guercio) and the Electric Flag, but by the mid-1970s the group's popularity began a decline.

Al Kooper era

Al 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. 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.

Fred Lipsius (alto sax, piano) joined the others a month later. A few more shows were played before Lipsius recruited horn players Dick Halligan, Randy Brecker and Jerry Weiss. The octet debuted as an opening act for Moby Grape at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village on November 17–19, 1967, and then played The Scene the following week. Columbia Records president Clive Davis later said:

"It was the Cafe Au Go Go in the Village. I do remember sitting there, watching and listening, and being very, very impressed that this was a new sound. I had never seen horns used this way. Truthfully, it floored me. I was knocked out, and I agreed to sign them on the spot."

At Columbia, the group quickly released the album Child Is Father to the Man in February 1968. Supported by the single "I Can't Quit Her" the album reached number 47 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart in the United States and number 1 on the Cashbox chart.

Artistic differences quickly developed, with Colomby and Katz wanting to hire a stronger lead vocalist. This led to the departure of Kooper in April 1968. Prior to leaving, Kooper had already arranged some songs that would be on the second BS&T album. He was soon hired as a record producer at Columbia. Trumpeters Randy Brecker and Jerry Weiss also left and were replaced by Lew Soloff and Chuck Winfield. Brecker joined Horace Silver's band. Jerry Weiss went on to start the similarly styled group Ambergris.