Also noted

Ebony, July, 2005

JONATHAN BUTLER, Jonathan (Rendezvous Records); JEANETTE HARRIS BAND, Down Route 99 (Sweet Music Records); CANNONBALL ADDERLEY, Cannonball In Europe (Blue Note); DOWN TO THE BONE, Spread Love Like Wildfire (Narada Jazz); THE JAZZ CRUSADERS, The Festival Album (Blue Note); DARRYL TOOKES, New England Morning (TBM), featuring Joseph Joubert; FLORA PURIM, Flora's Song (Narada Jazz); THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS, Painted On (Tone-Cool/Artemis); ALVIN YOUNG BLOOD HART, Motivational Speaker (Tone-Cool/Artemis); SPIRITUAL UNITY with Roy Campbell, Henry Grimes, Marc Ribot, Chad Taylor (Pi Recordings); RON BLAKE, Sonic Tonic (Mack Ave.); KEYSHIA COLE, The Way It Is (A&M); A7 (Triple A Entertainment); WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET, Beyond the Sound Barrier (Verve Music); The Soul Seekers (Verity/Gospo Centric);THE MIGHTY CLOUDS OF JOY, In The House of The Lord (EMI Gospel); SOUNDS OF BLACKNESS, Unity (SLR Records), featuring Ann Nesby; ELVIS WHITE (1720 Records); KILLER MIKE, Ghetto Extraordinaire (Sony Urban); JERMAINE DUPRI PRESENTS ... YOUNG, FLY & FLASHY VOL. 1 (So So Def/Virgin); RAY CASH, C.O.D.: Cash On Delivery (Columbia); COWBOYTROY, Loco Motive (Raybaw Records/Warner Bros.); MIKE JONES, Who is Mike Jones? (Asylum/Warner Bros.); NIVEA, Complicated (Jive/Zomba); MASSIVE ATTACK, Unleashed (Virgin); ALLFRUMTHAL I, Larger Than Life (Free Agency); REGGIE ROCC, Beyond the Surface (Baifam); OUTLAWZ, Outlaw 4 Life (33rd St. Records); KEITH SWEAT, Grown & Sexy (Sanctuary Urban); EARL THOMAS, Intersection (Memphis Intl.); SEAN GEMINI, Inner Me (Warner Bros.); Atlantiquity (Atlantic/Rhino), featuring Carmen McCrae, Donny Hathaway, Chic and the Spinners; Cherrelle: Greatest Hits (Tabu/Virgin); JAMIE JONES (Image Music); WADE O. BROWN, All Night, All Love (Groove United Productions); TYRA, Country Boy (Universal/Motown); STEPHEN MARLEY, Got Music? (Universal); ERNEST RANGLIN, Surfin (Telarc); and NORTH AFRICAN GROOVE (Putumayo).

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