Mirror Image is an album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears is an American music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles...

, released in 1974.

Founding member Jim Fielder

Jim Fielder

Jim Fielder is an American bassist, best known for his work as an original member of Blood, Sweat & Tears....

 left the band prior to the recording of Mirror Image. Long-time horn player Lew Soloff

Lew Soloff

Lew Soloff is a jazz trumpeter, composer and actor. He studied trumpet at the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. He is likely best known for his work with Blood, Sweat & Tears from 1968 to 1973...

 also left the group. Jerry LaCroix, previously of Edgar Winter

Edgar Winter

Edgar Holland Winter is an American musician. He is famous for being a multi-instrumentalist. He is a highly skilled keyboardist, saxophonist and percussionist. He often plays an instrument while singing. He was most successful in the 1970s with his band, The Edgar Winter Group, notably with their...

's band White Trash joined on saxophone and occasional lead vocals. This album was produced by veteran Motown producer Henry Cosby

Henry Cosby

Henry "Hank" R. Cosby was an African American songwriter and record producer for Motown Records...

, best known for his work on early Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

 songs.

Mirror Image was re-released on CD in 2005 on the Wounded Bird

Wounded Bird Records

Wounded Bird Records is a CD only, re-issue record label, that was founded in 1998 in Guilderland, New York. They re-release lesser known albums from both popular and lesser known artists, including Deborah Harry, Chic, David Blue, Marilyn Martin, Gordon Haskell, Jon Anderson, Adrian Belew, Ellen...

 label.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Ross Boissoneau called the album "the most atypical Blood, Sweat & Tears album ever."

Track listing

1. "Tell Me That I'm Wrong" (Patricia Cosby) – 2:28
2. "Look Up to the Sky" (Anthony Klatka, Jerry LaCroix, Julian LaCroix) – 4:39
3. "Love Looks Good on You (You're Candy Sweet)" (Sharon Brown
   Sharon Brown (singer)
   Sharon Brown is a singer-songwriter and musician who was born in Harlem, New York, U.S.. She is the niece of songwriter Phil Medley, who co-wrote the song "Twist and Shout". She is also the daughter of drummer William Brown, who played with musicians such as The Isley Brothers and Cannonball...
   
   , Patricia Cosby) – 3:20
4. "Hold on to Me" (Dave Bargeron
   Dave Bargeron
   David 'Dave' W Bargeron is an American trombonist and tuba player from Athol, Massachusetts, most famous for playing with the jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat, and Tears. He joined the group in 1970, after Jerry Hyman departed, and first appeared on the album Blood, Sweat & Tears 4...
   
   ) – 4:10
5. "Thinking of You" (Klatka, LaCroix) – 4:26
6. "Are You Satisfied" (Bargeron, Jerry Fisher, Lacroix, George Wadenius) – 3:59
7. "Movement I-Maglomania" (Larry Willis) – 2:34
8. "Movement II-Mirror Image" (Ron McClure) – 3:31
9. "Movement III-South Mountain Shuffle" (Klatka) – 2:46
10. "Movement IV-Rock Reprise" (Bargeron, Fisher, Lacroix, Wadenius) – 2:17
11. "She's Coming Home" (Fisher, Wadenius) – 3:11

Personnel

• Jerry Fisher – vocals
• Dave Bargeron
  Dave Bargeron
  David 'Dave' W Bargeron is an American trombonist and tuba player from Athol, Massachusetts, most famous for playing with the jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat, and Tears. He joined the group in 1970, after Jerry Hyman departed, and first appeared on the album Blood, Sweat & Tears 4...
  
   - trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  , tuba
  Tuba
  The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
  
  
• Bobby Colomby
  Bobby Colomby
  Bobby Colomby is an innovative jazz-rock fusion drummer, and an original member of the group Blood, Sweat & Tears...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  
• Tony Klatka - trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Ron McClure
  Ron McClure
  Ron McClure , a bassist, has played in hard bop, jazz-rock, and free and bebop sessions and bands.He started on piano at age five, and later played accordion and bass...
  
   – bass
• George Wadenius – guitar
  Guitar
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  , lead and background vocals
• Larry Willis
  Larry Willis
  Lawrence Elliott Willis is an American jazz pianist and composer. He has performed in a wide range of styles, including jazz fusion rock music, Bebop and Avant-Garde...
  
   – keyboards
• Robert Mason – synthesizer
• Ralph MacDonald
  Ralph MacDonald
  Ralph MacDonald is an American percussionist and song-writer. He joined Harry Belafonte's band at age 17. He wrote the Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway song "Where is the Love" with songwriting partner William Salter. Probably his best-known composition is the Grover Washington, Jr...
  
   – percussion
• Dom Um Romão
  Dom Um Romão
  Dom Um Romão was a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Noted for his expressive stylings with the fusion band Weather Report, Romão recorded with varied artists such as Cannonball Adderley, Paul Simon, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 and Tony Bennett...
  
   – percussion
• Warren Smith – percussion
• Jerry Lacroix – saxophone, vocals
• Bill Tillman – saxophone

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1974	Pop Albums	149