Also noted - Souding off: for the latest and hottest in Black Music! - Brief Article

Ebony, Feb, 2004

ALSO NOTED: Earth, Wind & Fire, Love Songs (Columbia/Legacy); Best of Keith Sweat: Make You Sweat (Elektra/Rhino); Van Hunt (Capitol); Honey soundtrack (Elektra); Nodesha debut (Arista); The Ultimate Toni Braxton (Arista); Soul Comes Home (Shout), celebrating Stax Records with Al Green, Isaac Hayes and others; Glenn Lewis, Back for More (Epic); Ricky Fante, Rewind (Virgin); Delfonics Today All Platinum (LaLa); Jeff Bradshaw, Bone Deep (Hidden Beach); 50 Cents G Unit, Beg for Mercy (Interscope); The Best of Donald Lawrence & (Tri-City Singers: Restoring the Years (EMI Gospel); Yusef Lateef, Adam Rudolph and Go:Organic Orchestra, In the Garden (Meta); Miller Petrucciani Lagrene White Garrett, Dreyfus Night in Paris (Dreyfus); Augustus Pablo, King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown (Shanachie); Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Raise Your Spirit Higher-Wenyukela (Heads Up); Cecil Parker, For Now (Etre Entertainment); The Persuasions, A Cappella Dreams (Chesky/Telarc); Sharing Cultures with Ella Jenkins (Smithsonian Folkways).

DVDs: One Night with Blue Note (Town Hall, NYC, 1985), with Art Blakey, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Stanley Jordan, Clarles Lloyd, Cecil McBee, Stanley Turrentine, McCoy Tyner and Grover Washington Jr.; Higher Ground, Voices of Contemporary Gospel Music, featuring Donnie McClurkin, Mary Mary, Kirk Franklin, Dr. Bobby Jones, Vickie Winans and Yolanda Adams; and Only the Strong Survive, featuring Jerry Butler, the Chi-Lites, Isaac Hayes, Wilson Pickett, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas and more.