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ALSO NOTED: Sweet Honey in the Rock, The Women Gather (30th Anniversary) (Earthbeat); Denyce Graves, The Lost Days (RCA Red Seal), on which the opera superstar performs with Latin artists; Stefon Harris, The Grand Unification Theory (Blue Note); Benny Green & Russell Malone, Jazz at the Bistro (Telarc); David Murray Latin Big Band, Now is Another Time (Justin Time); Abdullah Ibrahim, African Magic (Justin Time); Denise LaSalle, Still the Queen (Ecko Records); Common, Electric Circus (MCA); R.

Kelly, The Chocolate Factory (Jive); Nas, God's Son (Columbia); Lil' Romeo, Game Time (New No Limit); BLACKstreet, Level II (DreamWorks); Choppa, Straight From the N.O. (New No Limit); Nate Dogg (Elektra); Kizzy Rock, The Realist (Koch); Strength of a Nation: Hip-Hop's Tribute to the Fallen but not Forgotten (Alive and Free Records); Johnny Mathis, Marvin Gaye and The O'Jays, each has new CD in the Love Songs series (Columbia/Epic Legacy); Ben Tankard, Play A Lil' Song 4 Me (Verity); Total Praise, Total Praise Live (Emmanuel Baptist Church); Frederic, God Speaks Back-Revisited (SongPower Music Group); and Ginger Mance, Deeper Than Rivers: Poems of Love (Sound Creations).