Also noted - The Best In Recorded Music - Brief Article

ALSO NOTED: Solange, Solo Star (Columbia); Brian McKnight, Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda (Universal/Motown); Kindred the Family Soul, Surrender to Love (Hidden Beach); Lil' Mo, Meet the Girl Next Door (Elektra); Les Nubians, One Step Forward (Om Town/Higher Octave); Nance Nickels, Situations & Circumstances (NABY); K-OS, Exit (Astralwerks); The Essential Sly & The Family Stone (Epic/Legacy); Ms Dynamite, A Little Deeper (Interscope); Nick Cannon debut (Jive); Keith Sweat Live (Elektra); The D.O.C., Deuce (Silverback); Lionel Richie, The Definitive Collection (Universal); MC Lyte, Da Underground Heat, Vol 1 (Artistdirect Records); Bobby Blue Bland, Blues at Midnight (Malaco); Babatunde Lea, Soul Pools (Motema); Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony soundtrack (ATO Records); Wayne Shorter, Alegria (Verve); Slide Hampton & the World of Trombones, Spirit of the Horn (MCGJazz); Clark Terry & Max Roach, Friendship (Columbia/Eighty-Eight's); Bill Summers & Irvin Mayfield, Los Hombres Calientes, Vol 4: Vodou Dance (Basin Street); Doc Powell, 97th & Columbus (Heads Up); Darwin Hobbs, Broken (EMI Gospel); Doug Williams, When Mercy Found Me (Blackberry); If I Had My Way: Early Home Recordings of Rev.

Gary Davis (Smithsonian Folkways); and WoW Gospel 2003 (EMI/Verity/Word), which features "top 30 songs by the top 30 artists."