Blood, Sweat & Tears, 6 December 2024

Blood, Sweat & Tears is a jazz rock music group founded in New York City in 1967, noted for a combination of brass with rock instrumentation. The group has performed popular songs from Laura Nyro, James Taylor, the Band, the Rolling Stones, and Billie Holiday and also adapted music from Erik Satie, Thelonious Monk and Sergei Prokofiev into their arrangements.

Since its beginnings, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles. The band is most notable for its fusion of rock, blues, pop music, horn arrangements, and jazz improvisation into a hybrid that came to be known as "jazz rock". Unlike "jazz fusion" bands, which tend toward virtuosic displays of the instrumental facility and some experimentation with electric instruments, the songs of Blood, Sweat & Tears merged the stylings of rock, pop and R&B/soul music with big band, while also adding elements of 20th-century classical and small combo jazz traditions.