{"id":42564,"date":"2012-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/child-is-father-to-the-man\/"},"modified":"2012-03-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T00:00:00","slug":"child-is-father-to-the-man","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/child-is-father-to-the-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Is Father To The Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the mid-1960\u2019<\/a>s, when Al Kooper was a member of the Blues Project, he had the idea to add a brass section to the band. That dream never came to fruition but the seeds for Blood, Sweat & Tears were sown.<\/p>\n

Kooper\u2019s participation in the band he founded was short but sweet, and the album he produced with the group was one of the best of its era. It was also far different from the mega hit albums that would follow after his exit.<\/p>\n

Child Is Father To The Man<\/i> fused rock, rhythm & blues, jazz, and even some classical elements with a brass section into a unique sound. Rather than just using the brass to fill in the spaces and provide background sounds, Kooper moved it up front to share center stage with the guitar, bass, and keyboards. It all added up to a release that made Rolling Stone Magazine\u2019s<\/i> list of the Top 500 Albums Of All Time.<\/p>\n

He surrounded himself with a stellar cast of musicians for this release. He brought along guitarist\/vocalist Steve Katz from the Blues Project and added drummer Bobby Columby, bassist Jim Fielder, pianist & sax player Fred Lipsius, and brass players Randy Brecker, Dick Halligan, and Jerry Weiss.<\/p>\n

The music was a brilliant and eclectic hodgepodge that somehow all fit together. The album began with a short classical overture before sliding into Kooper\u2019s first R&B-oriented piece. \u201cI\u2019ll Love You More Than You\u2019ll Ever Know\u201d was a sprawling, nearly six-minute track that introduced all the elements of the Blood, Sweat, & Tears sound. They were followed by a cover of Tim Buckley\u2019s \u201cMorning Glory,\u201d which was changed from a folk tune into a brassy blues piece.<\/p>\n

The album\u2019s best track was \u201cI Can\u2019t Quit Her.\u201d Kooper\u2019s gritty and soulful vocal, in front of the big brass sound, was one of the better performances of his career. Close behind was their cover of Harry Nilsson\u2019s classic pop tune, \u201cWithout Her,\u201d which the group took in a bossa nova beat direction. When you add in the organ-driven \u201cSomething\u2019s Goin\u2019 On\u201d and the classical-influenced \u201cThe Modern Adventures Of Plato, Diogenes, and Freud,\u201d you have an album filled with delights.<\/p>\n

Child Is Father To The Man<\/i> remains an interesting piece of music history. It was a vastly different album from most of what was being released during the last half of the 1960\u2019s and remains an essential listen today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":30887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8805],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-42564","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-blood-sweat-tears","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42564"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}