Artist: Us3
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Dance
Acid Jazz
Jazz
Discography:
Schizophonic
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Say What!?
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Questions
Year: 2003
Tracks: 1
An Ordinary Day In An Unusual Place
Year: 2001
Tracks: 15
An Ordinary Day In A Unusual..
Year: 2001
Tracks: 15
Broadway and 52nd
Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
The Jazz Mixes
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
I Got It Goin' On
Year: 1994
Tracks: 4
Hand on the Torch
Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
The jazz/hip-hop optical fusion corporate Us3 scored a major strike in 1994 with "Cantaloop (Toss Fantasia)," a variant that displayed the group's fondness for sampling graeco-Roman recordings on the Blue Note label (in this case, Herbie Hancock's "Cantaloup Island"). The mathematical group was founded in London in 1991 when concert showman and jazz author Geoff Wilkinson met Mel Simpson, wHO was composing music for television set shows and ad jingles and had once played keyboards with John Mayall. The deuce produced an self-governing single, "Where Will We Be in the 21st Century?," which sold less than 250 copies. In 1992, their strain "The Band That Played the Boogie" attracted the attention of Blue Note proprietor Capitol Records, which gave Simpson and Wilkinson discharge rein to sample anything from the catalogue. The dickens right away went to process, hiring several musicians and rappers Kobie Powell and Rahsaan Kelly, with Tukka Yoot connection later. The roger Sessions resulted in the strike "Cantaloop" and the album Hand on the Torch. The group toured Japan and Europe, step by stair ablactation itself away from victimisation samples in a hot place setting, and played a well-received present at the 1993 Montreux Jazz Festival. Hand on the Torch was unheeded by nigh jazz publications, simply was chosen Album of the Year by Japan's Swing Journal, and the group were named Jazz Musicians of the Year by Britain's The Independent. After a nearly three-year detain, Us3 returned in 1997 with Broadway & 52nd, an record album which received positive reviews just failed to beget a strike. The dance orchestra -- though it was mostly Wilkinson and guests at this point -- continued to tone end new real into the raw millennium, even so, including 2005's Questions and 2007's Say What!?
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