67年、ヴォーカル/キーボードAL KOOPERを中心にNYで結成、ジャズ・ロックの垣根を超えてブラス・ロックというジャンルそのものを生み出した名バンド。バンド名はJOHNNY CASHの同名アルバムに由来するBLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS。
69年の名曲"YOU'VE MADE ME SO VERY HAPPY"に"SPINNING WHEEL"、LAURA NYROの"AND WHEN I DIE"など7枚のチャート・ヒット・シングルに加え、サイケ、ジャズ、クラシックのフュージョンを展開しAL KOOPERのプロデュースで時代を捉えた1ST『CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN』、「カナダのRAY CHARLES」ことDAVID CLAYTON-THOMASのブルー・アイド・ソウルフル・ヴォイスをフィーチャーしブラス・ロックを確立した傑作2ND『BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS』などアルバムからの曲も含めた95年リリースのベスト盤のリイシューです。
発売・販売元 提供資料(2025/04/01)
Blood, Sweat & Tears' 11-track Greatest Hits album, released in February 1972, contained all of the group's six Top 40 singles, plus notable tracks from its two best albums, Child Is Father to the Man and Blood, Sweat & Tears. Almost 24 years later came this 32-track, 138-plus-minute, double-CD expansion, much of it extraneous. Where Greatest Hits contained the single edits of songs like "You've Made Me So Very Happy" and "And When I Die," here "all titles are original album versions," as the back cover notes, which means the jazzy interludes, frequently having nothing to do with the rest of the song, remain. There are a couple of unreleased tracks. Legacy would have better served consumers by either expanding the original 41-minute Greatest Hits to proper CD length with a few bonus tracks, or reissuing the first two albums in a double-disc set, again with a few bonus tracks to fill up the time. ~ William Ruhlmann
Rovi