Category: Jazz

Blood, Sweat And Tears – The Complete Columbia Singles (2014) [2CD]
EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Image + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 662 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Real Gone Music | US | Cat#: RGM-0211 | Genre: Jazz-Rock

Blood, Sweat & Tears are no strangers to oldies radio but even so, they only have a handful singles in constant rotation: “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” “Spinning Wheel,” “And When I Die,” and maybe “Hi-De-Ho.” “You’re the One,” a Top 10 Adult Contemporary single from 1976, is rarely heard and that’s just one of many songs released on the A- and B-sides of singles released between 1968 and 1976, all of which are compiled on Real Gone’s 2014 double-disc set The Complete Columbia Singles. Continue reading “Blood, Sweat And Tears – The Complete Columbia Singles (2014) [2CD]”

Blood, Sweat & Tears – New Blood / No Sweat / More Than Ever (2012) [Remastered, 2CD]
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Total Size: 793 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: BGO Records | UK | Cat#: BGOCD1074 | Genre: Jazz-Rock

From their beginnings as an attempt at bold jazz-rock fusion in 1967 through a run as a high-powered R&B/soul-rock singles act with singer David Clayton-Thomas two years later, Blood, Sweat & Tears were always a kind of fascinating experiment, and a commercially successful one at that. The first album from the Clayton-Thomas-fronted band appeared in 1969, spawned four high chart hits, won a Grammy as Album of the Year, and went on to sell some three million units. Continue reading “Blood, Sweat & Tears – New Blood / No Sweat / More Than Ever (2012) [Remastered, 2CD]”

Blood, Sweat & Tears – 3 & 4 (2004)
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Total Size: 522 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Edsel Records | EU | Cat#: DIAB 8056 | Genre: Fusion, Jazz-Rock

From their beginnings as an attempt at bold jazz-rock fusion in 1967 through a run as a high-powered R&B/soul-rock singles act with singer David Clayton-Thomas two years later, Blood, Sweat & Tears were always a kind of fascinating experiment, and a commercially successful one at that. The first album from the Clayton-Thomas-fronted band appeared in 1969, spawned four high chart hits, won a Grammy as Album of the Year, and went on to sell some three million units. This set picks up the aftermath, combining the band’s next two albums, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 and 4, in a single package. Continue reading “Blood, Sweat & Tears – 3 & 4 (2004)”

Blood, Sweat & Tears – Nuclear Blues (1980)
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Total Size: 261 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Avenue Records | US | Cat#: R2 71922 | Genre: Jazz-Rock

This 1980 edition of rock’s longest-running horn band is definitely not your father’s Blood, Sweat & Tears. Frontman David Clayton-Thomas is still on board, but everybody else is new. Continue reading “Blood, Sweat & Tears – Nuclear Blues (1980)”