Live and Improvised

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Live and Improvised
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Live album by
Blood, Sweat & Tears
ReleasedMay 7, 1991
Recorded1975
Genre Rock, Jazz
Length88:58
Label Columbia
Producer Bobby Colomby, Jimmy Ienner
Blood, Sweat & Tears chronology
Nuclear Blues
(1980)		Live and Improvised
(1991)		 Live
(1994)

Live and Improvised is a two compact disc live album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, that was originally released in 1976 as a live album entitled In Concert by Columbia Records in Europe and Japan. This album was later remixed and released in the United States as Live and Improvised in 1991. This collection was recorded live at four different venues over five nights during the summer of 1975. The lineup for this album is the same as the New City album they were supporting on that tour with the exception of Steve Khan and Mike Stern on guitar.

Blood, Sweat & Tears American rock music band

Blood, Sweat & Tears is a jazz-rock Canadian-American music group. They are noted for their combination of brass and rock band instrumentation. The group recorded songs by rock/folk songwriters such as Laura Nyro, James Taylor, the Band and the Rolling Stones as well as Billie Holiday and Erik Satie. They also incorporated music from Thelonious Monk and Sergei Prokofiev into their arrangements.

<i>New City</i> (album) 1975 studio album by Blood, Sweat & Tears

New City is an album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1975. It peaked at Number 47 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.

Steve Khan American musician

Steve Khan is an American jazz guitarist. His style integrates angular single-note lines with chordal punctuations reminiscent of jazz pianists like McCoy Tyner and Chick Corea. Arriving in New York at the dawn of the '70s, he came to form a part of the '2nd Wave' of Fusion guitarists that included John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner, and later arrivals John Scofield and Bill Connors. Over the course of a long career, he is now recognized for his innovations in the world of Latin Jazz, while firmly establishing himself to many as 'the voice of Latin Jazz guitar'. He is also seen as one of the great interpreters of the compositions of Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman.

Contents

The songs in this collection were recorded at the Schaeffer Music Festival in New York City; City Hall Plaza in Boston; National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario; and at the Monterey Jazz Festival in Monterey, California.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Writing for Allmusic, critic Bruce Eder wrote, "What's also lacking is some excitement -- in the group's evident desire to emphasize their jazz side while minimizing any rock elements in their playing, they've also banished any tension, or the interplay between rock and jazz elements upon which their original appeal was founded. Numbers like "Spinning Wheel," "Lucretia MacEvil," "And When I Die," and "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" are done in such loose-limbed fashion that, apart from showcasing some virtuoso playing and Clayton-Thomas' more oppressive mannerisms, they're rather weak reinterpretations... On the positive side, along with the presence of those arrangements, the playing is very good, if not always terribly involving, and in those moments when Clayton-Thomas keeps his instincts in check, the material does recapture and expand on the best components of the original group's sound." [1]

Track listing

Disc One

  1. "Spinning Wheel" (David Clayton-Thomas) – 6:02
  2. "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" (Al Kooper) – 8:54
  3. "Lucretia Mac Evil" (David Clayton-Thomas) – 7:08
  4. "And When I Die" (Laura Nyro) – 2:10
  5. "One Room Country Shack" (John Lee Hooker) – 6:57
  6. "And When I Die (Reprise)" (Laura Nyro) – 3:07
  7. "(I Can Recall) Spain" (Chick Corea) – 9:01

Disc Two

  1. "Hi-De-Ho" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 6:33
  2. "Unit Seven" (Sam Jones) – 11:07
  3. "Life" (Allen Toussaint) – 5:15
  4. "Mean Ole World" (Jerry LaCroix) – 9:39
  5. "Ride Captain Ride" (Carlos Pinera, Franke Konte) – 6:59
  6. "You've Made Me So Very Happy" (Berry Gordy Jr., Brenda Holloway, Frank Wilson, Patrice Holloway) – 6:06

Personnel

David Clayton-Thomas British-Canadian musician

David Clayton-Thomas is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and in 2007 his jazz/rock composition "Spinning Wheel" was enshrined in the Canadian Songwriter's Hall of Fame. In 2010 Clayton-Thomas received his star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

Robert Wayne Colomby is a jazz-rock fusion drummer, record producer and television presenter. He is best known as an original member of the group Blood, Sweat & Tears, which he co-founded in 1967. He has also played with many other musical artists.

David W. Bargeron is an American trombonist and tuba player who was a member of the jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat, and Tears.

Production notes

Jimmy Ienner is an American music producer, best known for producing albums for such artists as Bay City Rollers, The Raspberries and Three Dog Night.

July 5, 1975 – Schaeffer Music Festival in New York City
July 20, 1975 – City Hall Plaza in Boston
August 11, 12, 1975 – National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario
September 21, 1975 – Monterey Jazz Festival in Monterey, California

Digitally remastered by Mark Wilder at Sony Music Studios, New York

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References

  1. 1 2 Eder, Bruce. "Live And Improvised > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved December 9, 2011.
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