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Released
  
August 1973

Artist
  
Blood, Sweat & Tears

Producer
  
Steve Tyrell

Genres
  
Jazz, Rock music

No Sweat (1973)
  
Mirror Image (1974)

Release date
  
August 1973

Label
  
Columbia Records

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No Sweat is an album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1973.

Contents

By mid-1973, Steve Katz, one of the founding members of BS&T had left the band as the members leaned further towards jazz fusion. No Sweat continued in the jazz-fusion vein and featured intricate horn work.

No Sweat was re-released on CD in 2005 on the Wounded Bird label.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Ross Boissoneau wrote the album "may be the jazziest BS&T ever."

Track listing

  1. "Roller Coaster" (Mark James) – 3:23
  2. "Save Our Ship" (Georg Wadenius, Cynthia Weil) – 3:43
  3. "Django (An Excerpt)" (John Lewis) – 2:08
  4. "Rosemary" (Randy Newman) – 3:13
  5. "Song for John" (Lou Marini) – 2:53
  6. "Almost Sorry" (Jeff Kent, Doug Lubahn) – 6:26
  7. "Back Up Against the Wall" (Buddy Buie, James Cobb) – 3:21
  8. "Hip Pickles" (Marini) – 1:31
  9. "My Old Lady" (Wadenius, Weil) – 3:15
  10. "Empty Pages" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) – 3:15
  11. "Mary Miles" (Michael Rabon) – 2:26
  12. "Inner Crisis" (Larry Willis) – 5:40

Personnel

  • Jerry Fisher – vocals
  • Dave Bargeron - trombone, tuba, bass trombone, baritone horn, background vocals
  • Bobby Colomby - drums, percussion, background vocals
  • Jim Fielder - bass, background vocals
  • Lou Marini - woodwinds
  • Lew Soloff - trumpet
  • Tom Malone – trumpet, ARP, 12-String fiddle
  • Georg Wadenius – guitar, background vocals
  • Larry Willis – keyboards

    • Additional musicians

  • Paul Buckmaster – synthesizer, ARP, horn arrangements, string arrangements, string conductor
  • David Hentschel – synthesizer, ARP
  • Steve Katz – guitar
  • Chuck Winfield - trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn
  • Jimmy Maelen – percussion
  • Frank Ricotti – percussion
  • Joshie Armstead – background vocals
  • Valerie Simpson – background vocals
  • Maretha Stewart – background vocals

    • Songs

    1Roller Coaster3:22
    2Save Our Ship3:43
    3Django (an excerpt)2:08

    References

    No Sweat (Blood, Sweat & Tears album) Wikipedia
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