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Summer Tunes for Black Music Month, Part 1

By Ed Gordon
Published June 9, 2005 at 10:00 PM MDT

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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