US3 is a jazz-rap group founded in London in 1991. They use samples of classic songs released by Blue Note Records. Among them is "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)", sampling Herbie Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island" on their first album Hand on the Torch. The song received much attention, approaching platinum status in the United States and being adopted as the theme music to the WBUR public radio program The Connection. Jazz rap is a fusion of alternative hip hop music and jazz, developed in the very late 1980s and early 1990s. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. ... Herbie Hancock Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is a jazz pianist and composer from Chicago, Illinois, USA. Hancock is one of jazz musics most important and influential pianists and composers. ... Empyrean Isles is an album by jazz musician Herbie Hancock, recorded July 17, 1964 for Blue Note Records. ... Album Cover Hand on the Torch was the debut album for the jazz-rap group Us3. ... WBUR is the larger of two NPR member stations in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The Connection was a radio call-in program from WBUR that ran from 1994 to 2005. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... An extended play (or EP), is typically the name given to vinyl records or CDs which are too long to be called singles but too short to qualify as albums. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Album Cover Hand on the Torch was the debut album for the jazz-rap group Us3. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... An extended play (or EP), is typically the name given to vinyl records or CDs which are too long to be called singles but too short to qualify as albums. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... An extended play (or EP), is typically the name given to vinyl records or CDs which are too long to be called singles but too short to qualify as albums. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Album cover Broadway & 52nd was the sophomore album by jazz-rap group Us3. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Us3 is the brainchild of London-based producer Geoff Wilkinson who formed the group in 1992, alongside production partner Mel Simpson.
Eventually the third Us3 album An Ordinary Day in an Unusual Place was released in 2001 by Toshiba EMI in Japan and Universal in Europe.
More label upheavals convinced Geoff to release the fourth and new Us3 album Questions via his own label and license it for distribution in various territories while still remaining with Toshiba EMI in Japan.
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