Also noted - The Best In Recorded Music

Ebony, August, 2002

ALSO NOTED: Karen Clark Sheard, 2nd Chance (Elektra); Marvin Sapp, I Believe (Verity); Dottie Peoples, Church' with Dottie (AIR); Ray Bady, Mission K.O.B. (Keep on Believin') (Gospo Centric); Canton Spirituals, Walking by Faith (Verity); Bubby Fann & Unlimited Praise, Judah Prayze (Tyscot); Brent Jones & TP Mobb, Beautiful (EMI Gospel); Amerie, All I Have (Rise/Columbia); 3rd Storee, Get with Me (Edmonds/Def Soul); Lady May, May Day (Arista); A.Z., Aziatic (Motown); Truth Hurts, Truthfully Speaking (Aftermath/Interscope); D.J.Rogers Jr., Emo-Soul (Motown); Lexi, Somewhere Different (Real Deal); Yasmeen, When Will It Be Me (MJM/MCA); Mario (J Records); Freddie McGregor, Anything for You (VP); Ruff Endz, Someone to Love You (Epic); Solomon Burke, Don't Give Up on Me (Fat Possum Records); Dizzy Gillespie: Bebop Professor (Bluebird/RCA Victor); Yaya3, with Joshua Redman, Sam Yahel and Brian Blade (Lama Records); Ran Carter, Stardust (Blue Note); Norman Brown, Just Chillin' (WB); Jeff (Tain) Watts, Bar Talk (Columbia); Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band, Things to Come (Telarc); Nnenna Freelon, Tales of Wonder: Celebrating Stevie Wonder (Concord); Herbie Hancock, Roy Hargrove, Michael Brecker, Directions in Music: Celebrating Miles Davis & John Coltrane (Verve); Braxton Brothers, Both Sides (Peak); Greg Osby, Inner Circle (Blue Note); Roscoe Mitchell & the Note Factory, Song for My Sister (P.I.); Ray Brown, Some of My Best Friends Are ...

Guitarists (Telac); and Victor Fields, 52nd Street (Regina Records).