Artists

Us3

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). The group was founded in London in 1991 when concert promoter and jazz writer Geoff Wilkinson met Mel Simpson, who was writing music for television shows and ad jingles and had once played keyboards with John Mayall. 

Weather Report

Weather Report started out as a jazz equivalent of what the rock world in 1970 was calling a "supergroup." But unlike most of the rock supergroups, this one not only kept going for a good 15 years, it more than lived up to its billing, practically defining the state of the jazz-rock art throughout almost all of its run.

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