2017年4月8日 · Us3 is the brainchild of London-based producer Geoff Wilkinson. Formed in 1992, alongside production partner Mel Simpson, Us3 rose from the ashes of two previous incarnations. The first was a limited edition white label release in 1990 called Where Will We Be In The 21st Century featuring rapper MC Honey B and jazz pianist Jessica Lauren.

Us3 were a British jazz rap group founded by London-based producer Geoff Wilkinson in 1992. The name was inspired by Us Three, a Horace Parlan album produced in 1960 by Alfred Lion, the founder of Blue Note Records. [1] Us3's debut album, Hand on the Torch, used samples from Blue Note songs produced by Lion.

A British jazz, hip hop and rap fusion founded by producer Geoff Wilkinson in 1992.

In honour of that, the new Us3 album (to be released on October 14th) is entitled “The Third Way (Hand On The Torch Vol II)”, and marks a return to the classic Us3 sound, with 5 of the 14 tracks containing interpolations of a number of well-known jazz standards, including Dizzy Gillespie’s “Manteca”, Duke Ellington’s “It Don’t ...

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Us3 Biography The jazz/hip-hop fusion collective Us3 scored a major hit in 1994 with “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia),” a song that displayed the group’s fondness for sampling classic recordings on the Blue Note label (in this case, Herbie Hancock’s “Cantaloupe Island”).

Jazz hip-hop pioneer Us3’s fresh alchemy of hard-bop and hip-hop catapulted jazz into the mainstream in the early 1990s, earning the legendary label, Blue Note Records, its first Stateside platinum certification.

Us3 were a British jazz rap group founded by London-based producer Geoff Wilkinson in 1992.

Us3 is a jazz-rap group founded in London in 1992. Their name was inspired by a Horace Parlan recording produced by Alfred Lion, the founder of Blue Note Records. On their debut album, Hand on the Torch, Us3 exclusively used samples from the Blue Note Records catalogue, all originally produced by Lion.

Us3 is a jazz-rap group founded in London in 1992. Their name was inspired by a Horace Parlan recording produced by Alfred Lion, the founder of Blue Note Records. On their debut album, Hand on the Torch, Us3 exclusively used samples from the Blue Note Records catalogue, all originally produced by Lion.