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Us3 - Hand On The Torch

Label:
Blue Note
Catalog#:
CDP 0777 7 80883 2 5
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
US
Released:
1993
Genre:
Electronic, Hip Hop, Jazz
Style:
Acid Jazz

Tracklist

1   Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) 4:39 X
    Featuring [Samples From] - Art Blakey Quintet, The* , Herbie Hancock
  Trumpet - Gerard Presencer
  Written-By - Wilkinson* , Hancock* , Simpson* , Kelly*
2   I Got It Goin' On 5:18
    Featuring [Samples From] - Reuben Wilson
  Saxophone [Tenor] - Mike Smith (3)
  Trombone - Dennis Rollins
  Trumpet - Gerard Presencer
  Written-By - Wilkinson* , Powell* , Simpson* , Kelly* , Wilson*
3   Different Rhythms Different People 1:16
    Featuring [Samples From] - Jazz Messengers, The*
  Written-By - Wilkinson* , Simpson*
4   It's Like That 3:41 X
    Featuring [Samples From] - Big John Patton* , Lou Donaldson
  Written-By - Parker* , Wilkinson* , Powell* , Simpson* , Rollins*
5   Just Another Brother 3:42
    Featuring [Samples From] - Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers*
  Saxophone [Soprano & Tenor] - Ed Jones
  Written-By - Hubbard* , Wilkinson* , Powell* , Simpson*
6   Cruisin' 3:30 X
    Saxophone [Soprano] - Steve Williamson
  Written-By - Wilkinson* , Simpson* , Kelly*
7   I Go To Work 4:06 X
    Featuring [Samples From] - Thelonious Monk
  Guitar - Tony Remy
  Written-By - Wilkinson* , Powell* , Simpson* , Monk*
8   Tukka Yoot's Riddim 5:41 X
    Featuring [Samples From] - Grant Green
  Saxophone [Tenor] - Ed Jones
  Written-By - Covay* , Wilkinson* , Simpson* , Taylor* , Cropper*
9   Knowledge Of Self 4:18 X
    Written-By - Wilkinson* , Simpson* , Kelly*
10   Lazy Day 4:40 X
    Backing Vocals - Marie Harper
  Featuring [Samples From] - Bobby Hutcherson
  Saxophone [Tenor] - Ed Jones
  Written-By - Wilkinson* , Sample* , Powell* , Simpson*
11   Eleven Long Years 3:47
    Featuring [Samples From] - Herbie Hancock , Horace Silver
  Trumpet - Gerard Presencer
  Written-By - Wilkinson* , Hancock* , Silver* , Simpson* , Taylor*
12   Make Tracks 4:45 X
    Featuring [Samples From] - Donald Byrd , Horace Silver
  Piano - Matthew Cooper*
  Written-By - Pearson* , Wilkinson* , Silver* , Powell* , Simpson*
13   The Darkside 5:19 X
    Featuring [Samples From] - Donald Byrd
  Written-By - Wilkinson* , Mizell* , Simpson* , Kelly*

Credits

Artwork By [Typography] - Stylorouge
Other [Liner Notes] - Bruce Lundvall
Producer, Mixed By, Engineer, Keyboards, Programmed By - Mel Simpson
Producer, Mixed By, Sampler, Programmed By, Scratches - Geoff Wilkinson
Rap - Kobie Powell (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12) , Rahsaan (tracks: 1, 2, 6, 9, 13) , Tukka Yoot (tracks: 8, 11)

Notes

Recorded and mixed at Flame Studios, London.

Track 1 features samples from 'Cantaloupe Island' and the introduction from 'A Night In Birdland, Vol. 1'
Track 2 features a sample from 'Ronnie's Bonnie'
Track 3 features vocal samples from 'Art Blakey's Comments On Ritual' and 'At The Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2'
Track 4 features samples from 'Alfie's Theme' and 'Coo' Blues'
Track 5 features samples from 'Crisis'
Track 7 features samples from 'Straight No Chaser'
Track 8 features samples from 'Sookie Sookie'
Track 10 features a samples from 'Goin' Down South'
Track 11 features samples from 'Song For My Father' and 'Blind Man, Blind Man'
Track 12 features samples from 'Filthy McNasty' and 'Jeannine'
Track 13 features a samples from 'Steppin' Into Tomorrow'

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Review by Dec 29, 2006 (edited over 2 years ago)
This album has aged really well. What US3 did was prove that you could mix hip-hop and jazz, and they did a great job of it. "Cantaloop" was a massive hit and is still fresh today. Within the sampled beats and bass there is some great solo trumpet, saxophone and piano to give a bit of flavour for that new generation. The lyrics are your basic I'm-a-better-rapper-than-you, but I don't mind. The fact that the music is great makes it all worth it. I do wish there was an all instumental album.
A surprise track is 'The Darkside'. It doesn't really have any jazz elements in it but it instead has this scary feel to it as the song takes you through the "eyes of a black man". This is something that was really hard for US3 to follow up one but I'm glad to see them still around.
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