Cantaloupe Island
Context
Composed by Herbie Hancock at the time he was playing in Miles Davis's quintet, this theme with a simple, bluesy groove became a jazz standard. It appears on the album Empyrean Isles, released on Blue Note. Its sampling by Us3 in "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" in 1993 made it known to the hip-hop audience.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Soul jazz, boogaloo, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Soul jazz, boogaloo: Hard bop, Jump blues, R&B, Gospel.