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Hand on the Torch was the debut album for the jazz-rap group Us3
US3

Us3 is a jazz-rap group founded in London in 1991. Their name was inspired by a Horace Parlan recording produced by Alfred Lion, the founder of Blue Note Records....
. It received much attention because of its mix of jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 and rap
Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
, using live jazz musicians. All sample
Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an musical instrument or a different sound recording of a song....
s used on the album are from old Blue Note
Blue note

In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note sung or played at a slightly lower Pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres....
 classics: the most famous being Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
's "Cantaloupe Island"
Empyrean Isles

Empyrean Isles is the fourth album by jazz musician Herbie Hancock, released on June 17, 1964 on Blue Note Records. It features the debut of two of his most popular compositions, "One Finger Snap" and "Cantaloupe Island"....
, used on the track "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Cantaloop

"Cantaloop" is a song by Us3 which covers Herbie Hancock's song "Cantaloupe Island". It appeared on their 1993 album, Hand on the Torch, which was Blue Note Records's first RIAA certification-selling album....
".

In 2003 The Ultimate Hand on the Torch was released, including many of the songs used as sampling material on Hand on the Torch.

  • "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
    Cantaloop

    "Cantaloop" is a song by Us3 which covers Herbie Hancock's song "Cantaloupe Island". It appeared on their 1993 album, Hand on the Torch, which was Blue Note Records's first RIAA certification-selling album....
    " (Kelly/Simpson/Wilkinson/Hancock)
  • "I Got it Goin' On" (Powell/Kelly/Simpson/Wilkinson/Wilson)
  • "Different Rhythms Different People" (Simpson/Wilkinson)
  • "It's Like That" (Powell/Simpson/Wilkinson/Parker/Rollins)
  • "Just Another Brother" (Powell/Simpson/Wilkinson/Hubbard)
  • "Cruisin'" (Kelly/Simpson/Wilkinson)
  • "I Go To Work" (Powell/Simpson/Wilkinson/Monk)
  • "Tukka Yoot's Riddim" (Taylor/Simpson/Wilkinson/Covay/Cropper)
  • "Knowledge of Self" (Kelly/Simpson/Wilkinson)
  • "Lazy Day" (Powell/Simpson/Wilkinson/Sample)
  • "Eleven Long Years" (Taylor/Simpson/Wilkinson/Silver/Hancock)
  • "Make Tracks" (Powell/Simpson/Wilkinson/Silver/Pearson)
  • "The Darkside" (Kelly/Simpson/Wilkinson/Mizell)


    • antaloop (Flip Fantasia) features samples from "Cantaloupe Island" as performed by Herbie Hancock
    Herbie Hancock

    Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
    , and the introduction from "A Night in Birdland, Vol.






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    Hand on the Torch was the debut album for the jazz-rap group Us3
    US3

    Us3 is a jazz-rap group founded in London in 1991. Their name was inspired by a Horace Parlan recording produced by Alfred Lion, the founder of Blue Note Records....
    . It received much attention because of its mix of jazz
    Jazz

    Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
     and rap
    Hip hop music

    Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
    , using live jazz musicians. All sample
    Sampling (music)

    In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an musical instrument or a different sound recording of a song....
    s used on the album are from old Blue Note
    Blue note

    In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note sung or played at a slightly lower Pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres....
     classics: the most famous being Herbie Hancock
    Herbie Hancock

    Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
    's "Cantaloupe Island"
    Empyrean Isles

    Empyrean Isles is the fourth album by jazz musician Herbie Hancock, released on June 17, 1964 on Blue Note Records. It features the debut of two of his most popular compositions, "One Finger Snap" and "Cantaloupe Island"....
    , used on the track "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
    Cantaloop

    "Cantaloop" is a song by Us3 which covers Herbie Hancock's song "Cantaloupe Island". It appeared on their 1993 album, Hand on the Torch, which was Blue Note Records's first RIAA certification-selling album....
    ".

    In 2003 The Ultimate Hand on the Torch was released, including many of the songs used as sampling material on Hand on the Torch.

    Tracks

    1. "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
      Cantaloop

      "Cantaloop" is a song by Us3 which covers Herbie Hancock's song "Cantaloupe Island". It appeared on their 1993 album, Hand on the Torch, which was Blue Note Records's first RIAA certification-selling album....
      " (Kelly/Simpson/Wilkinson/Hancock)
    2. "I Got it Goin' On" (Powell/Kelly/Simpson/Wilkinson/Wilson)
    3. "Different Rhythms Different People" (Simpson/Wilkinson)
    4. "It's Like That" (Powell/Simpson/Wilkinson/Parker/Rollins)
    5. "Just Another Brother" (Powell/Simpson/Wilkinson/Hubbard)
    6. "Cruisin'" (Kelly/Simpson/Wilkinson)
    7. "I Go To Work" (Powell/Simpson/Wilkinson/Monk)
    8. "Tukka Yoot's Riddim" (Taylor/Simpson/Wilkinson/Covay/Cropper)
    9. "Knowledge of Self" (Kelly/Simpson/Wilkinson)
    10. "Lazy Day" (Powell/Simpson/Wilkinson/Sample)
    11. "Eleven Long Years" (Taylor/Simpson/Wilkinson/Silver/Hancock)
    12. "Make Tracks" (Powell/Simpson/Wilkinson/Silver/Pearson)
    13. "The Darkside" (Kelly/Simpson/Wilkinson/Mizell)


    Sampling

    Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) features samples from "Cantaloupe Island" as performed by Herbie Hancock
    Herbie Hancock

    Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
    , and the introduction from "A Night in Birdland, Vol. 1" by Art Blakey Quintet
    Art Blakey

    Arthur Blakey , born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an United States jazz drummer and bandleader....
    .

    I Got It Goin' On features a sample from "Ronnie's Bonnie" as performed by Reuben Wilson
    Reuben Wilson

    Reuben Wilson is a jazz organist, performer of the Hammond B3. He plays acid jazz, though he also performed in the soul jazz idiom. Wilson began performing in the 1960s....
    .

    It's Like That features samples from "Alfie's Theme" as performed by Big John Patton and "Cool Blues" as performed by Lou Donaldson
    Lou Donaldson

    Lou Donaldson is a jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. He is best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to the alto saxophone, although in his formative years he was, as many were of the bebop era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker....
    .

    Different Rhythms Different People features vocal samples from "Art Blakey's Comment On Ritual" and "At The Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2" by The Jazz Messengers.

    Just Another Brother features samples from "Crisis" as performed by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

    I Go To Work features samples from "Straight No Chaser" as performed by Thelonius Monk.

    Tukka Yoot's Riddim features samples from "Sookie Sookie" as performed by Grant Green
    Grant Green

    Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer.Recording prolifically and almost exclusively for Blue Note Records Green performed well in hard bop, soul jazz, bebop and latin jazz-tinged settings throughout his career....
    .

    Lazy Day features a sample from "Goin' Down South" as performed by Bobbie Hutcherson.

    Eleven Long Years features samples from "Song For My Father" as performed by Horace Silver
    Horace Silver

    Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer. His father, who was known as John Tavares Silva, was from the island of Maio, Cape Verde in Cape Verde....
     and "Blind Man, Blind Man" as performed by Herbie Hancock
    Herbie Hancock

    Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
    .

    Make Tracks features samples from "Filthy McNasty" as performed by Horace Silver
    Horace Silver

    Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer. His father, who was known as John Tavares Silva, was from the island of Maio, Cape Verde in Cape Verde....
     and "Jeannine" as performed by Donald Byrd
    Donald Byrd

    Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II is an United States jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter.BiographyEarly life and education...
    .

    The Darkside features a sample from "Steppin' Into Tomorrow" as performed by Donald Byrd
    Donald Byrd

    Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II is an United States jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter.BiographyEarly life and education...
    .

    Musicians


    Rap - Rahsaan and Kobie Powell
    Kobie Powell

    Kobie Powell is an actor who Voice acting the puppet character of Pixel in the children's show LazyTown, currently being aired internationally by Nick Jr....
     (guest Tukka Yoot on Tukka Yoot's Riddim)
    Trumpet - Gerard Presencer
    Gerard Presencer

    Gerard Presencer is an England jazz trumpeter who has also made a name as a Session musician in pop-music contexts, and as a jazz educator....

    Trombone - Dennis Rollins
    Dennis Rollins

    Dennis Rollins is a United Kingdom jazz Trombone, the founder and leader of BadBone and Co.Rollins was born in Birmingham, of Jamaican parents, and brought up in Yorkshire....

    Tenor Sax - Mike Smith
    Mike Smith (saxophonist)

    Mike Smith is an English musician. He is an arranger, composer, conductor , session musician, and keyboardist, but specializes in saxophone.Smith studied jazz and contemporary music at the Leeds College of Music, from which he graduated in 1988....

    Soprano and Tenor Sax - Ed Jones
    Guitar - Tony Remy
    Piano - Matt Cooper