Blood, Sweat & Tears
BS&T in 1972
Background information
Origin	New York, U.S.
Genres	Jazz rock pop rock R&B psychedelic rock
Years active	1967–1981 1984–present
Labels	Columbia ABC Rhino Sony Mobile Fidelity Wounded Bird
Members	Brad Mason Ravi Best Sam Ryan Adam Klipple Dylan Elise Anibal Rojas Ric Fierabracci Nir Felder Ozzie Melendez Larry Willis
Website	bloodsweatandtears.com

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 group's second album, Blood, Sweat & Tears, spent seven weeks atop the U.S. charts in 1969 and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1970. It contained the hit recordings "And When I Die", "You've Made Me So Very Happy", and "Spinning Wheel".^[1] All of these peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. 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" of the Buckinghams and their producer, James William Guercio, as well as the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra.^[2] BS&T's success paralleled that of similarly configured ensembles such as Chicago (another group produced by Guercio) and the Electric Flag, but by the mid-1970s the group's popularity began a decline.^[3]