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Come On Everybody (Get Down) (Mixes)

By Us3

Label: SHOUT! Productions
Released: 1997

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Broadway & 52nd

By Us3

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1997

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It's hard to imagine a more hallowed jazz address than broadway & 52nd , the site of the original Birdland. In 1993, British underground DJ turned hip-hop producer Geoff Wilkinson shook up the jazz world with Hand On The Torch, a collection of hip-hop and rap tunes based on samples from classic Blue Note ...

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Us3: Hand On The Torch

Read "Hand On The Torch" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
May 1, 1997

Much of the talk about Us3, hip hop, and its mixture of rap with jazz has centered around the sampling of legendary jazz tunes. While rap remains the centerpiece, jazz sampling takes a back seat to the fine mainstream jazz presented by the members of Us3, including trumpeter Gerard Presencer, guitarist Tony Remy, trombonist Dennis Rollins, ...

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