Us3

Us3's broad and colorful palette includes jazz-rap, acid jazz, trip-hop, neo-soul, and more, created with sample-based production, live instrumentation, and an array of rappers and singers. Originally led by the production duo of Geoff Wilkinson and Mel Simpson, they scored a global hit with "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" (1993), a Top 25 single in their native U.K. that also reached the Top Ten in the U.S. and elsewhere. Both the parent album, Hand on the Torch, and its follow-up, Broadway & 52nd (1997), saw release on Blue Note, the pioneering jazz label that also allowed the g...