Summer Tunes for Black Music Month, Part 1

By Ed Gordon

Published June 9, 2005 at 6:00 PM HST

To mark Black Music Month, News and Notes with Ed Gordon begins a three-part series of reports on what magazine editors, music industry executives and independent critics think will be the hottest sounds of the summer. This week, producer Roy Hurst checks in with the magazine folks.

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