No Sweat (Blood, Sweat & Tears album)

No Sweat
Studio album by Blood, Sweat & Tears
Released	Aug 1973
Genre	Rock, jazz
Label	Columbia
Producer	Steve Tyrell
Blood, Sweat & Tears chronology
New Blood (1972) No Sweat (1973) Mirror Image (1974)

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

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

Professional ratings
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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Writing for Allmusic, critic Ross Boissoneau wrote the album "may be the jazziest BS&T ever."^[1]

Track listing

1. "Roller Coaster" (Mark James) – 3:23
2. "Save Our Ship" (George 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
• George 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

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