Broadway & 52nd

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Broadway & 52nd
Broadway & 52nd.jpg
Studio album by
Us3
Released8 April 1997
Genre Jazz, hip-hop
Length61:30
Label Blue Note
Producer Geoff Wilkinson, Jim Hawkins
Us3 chronology
Hand on the Torch
(1993)		Broadway & 52nd
(1997)		 An Ordinary Day in an Unusual Place
(2001)
Singles from Broadway & 52nd
  1. "Come on Everybody (Get Down)"
    Released: 1997
  2. "I'm Thinking About Your Body"
    Released: 1997
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [2]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Broadway & 52nd is the second studio album by jazz-rap group Us3 and has a more dark, conscious mood to it than their first album.

Contents

On the album, the group continued mixing live musicians with samples and hip hop lyrics. While the album was not as well received as the debut album Hand on the Torch , it represented a more mature approach to jazz rap. After the huge success of their first album, the president of Blue Note records allowed the trio to dig deep into Blue Note's vault and do whatever they wanted to do with its material.

The album's title comes from the street intersection in the middle of the theater district in New York City, which used to be the center of bebop in New York City.

Track listing

  1. "Intro" (Geoff Wilkinson, Hawkins, Powell, De Moraes) – 1:14
  2. "Come on Everybody (Get down)" (Wilkinson, Hawkins, Armstead, McLean) – 5:49
  3. "Caught Up in a Struggle" (Wilkinson, Hawkins, Vialva) – 3:42
  4. "True to the Game" (Wilkinson, Hawkins, Armstead) – 3:34
  5. "Snakes" (Wilkinson, Hawkins, Armstead) – 4:07
  6. "I'm Thinking About Your Body" (Wilkinson, Hawkins, Vialva, McFerrin) – 5:24
  7. "Grand Groove" (Wilkinson, Hawkins, Armsteads) – 3:36
  8. "Nowadays" (Wilkinson, Hawkins, Armstead) – 4:24
  9. "Sheep" (Wilkinson, Hawkins, Vialva) – 4:46
  10. "Doin' a Crime" (Wilkinson, Hawkins, Vialva) – 5:37
  11. "Recognise and Realise" (Wilkinson, Hawkins, Armstead, Vialva) – 5:40
  12. "Time and Space" (Wilkinson, Hawkins, Vialva, Jordan) – 4:45
  13. "Soul Brother" (Wilkinson, Hawkins, Armstead) – 3:59
  14. "Hymn for Her" (Wilkinson, Hawkins) – 4:53

Charts

Chart performance for Broadway & 52nd
Chart (1997)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [4] 90
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [5] 28
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [6] 21
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [7] 91
French Albums (SNEP) [8] 47
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [9] 80
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [10] 39
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [11] 26
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [12] 48
UK Albums (OCC) [13] 93
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums ( Billboard ) [14] 90

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  14. ↑ "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums: Week of April 26, 1997". Billboard. Retrieved 25 October 2022.


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