"Brian P." wrote: Anyway, the general premise of Blue Break Beats was to showcase many of the Blue Note recordings that became heavily sampled by hip hop DJs. Blue Note presumably took a healthy interest in these DJ friendly compilations in the early 90's with the popularity of US3, not to mention the Acid Jazz boom at-large. Speaking of US3, I'd also suggest hunting down the double LP comp "Straight No Chaser" which showcases all of the tunes that US3 sampled >on their first album. The coolest thing Blue Break Beats did was open up >Blue Note to a whole new reissue campaign which has resulted in the label >being at what is surely its most productive stage since the mid 60's. It >is also very cool that they released all of the BBB comps, and a number of >others on vinyl including a conisseur series on 180 gram vinyl...easily the >best Blue Note vinyl reissue campaign since the French Blue Note LPs that >came out in 1986 (with a poster in each LP!). I have the Us3 album and the liner notes say that most of the samples on that album (as well as the title) came from the Cannonball Adderly (recently deceased) LP "Us3" which was a live recording..I'm also willing to bet that some of the samples are off of the well known "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" album...this being if you want to track down the original tunes. The Blue Break Beats series has been on my wantlist for a while, lots of juicy Watermelon Man style stuff. Speaking of ol' Herbie, "Witch Doctor" has been remastered and released..I had a listen to it at HMV in NYC and it's one of the best re-releases BlueNote has done. Seth ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com _____________________________________________________________ Check out the new and improved Topica site! http://www.topica.com/t/13
