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Our picks for Jazz Album of 2002: 1) Come Away With Me by Norah Jones 2) Largo by Brad Mehldau 3) Speaking of Now by Pat Metheny 4) Footsteps of Our Fathers by Branford Marsalis 5) Freedom Suite by David S Ware

Our picks for R&B Album of 2002: 1) Don’t Give Up on Me by Solomon Burke 2) Under Construction by Missy Elliott 3) Power in Numbers by Jurassic 5 4) The Eminem Show by Eminem 5) Blazing Arrow by Blackalicious

Our picks for Country-Americana Album of 2002: 1) Home by The Dixie Chicks 2) American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash 3) Jerusalem by Steve Earle 4) Blacklisted by Neko Case 5) Lovesick Broke and Driftin’ by Hank Williams III

Our picks for Rock Album of 2002: 1) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco 2) Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age 3) When I Was Cruel by Elvis Costello 4) The Rising by Bruce Springsteen 5) White Blood Cells by the White Stripes

Our picks for Songwriter of 2002: 1) Jeff Tweedy 2) Elvis Costello 3) Eminem 4) Beck Norah Jones

Our picks for song of 2002: 1) “Into the Fire” by Bruce Springsteen 2) “Work It” by Missy Elliott 3) “Hot in Herre” by Nelly 4) “PDA” by Interpol 5) “45” by Elvis Costello “Hate to Say I Told You So” by The Hives “Fell in Love With a Girl” …

Just in time to laugh at the Grammys, The Critiquees (“Cri-teek-ees”), the Blogcritics.org music awards for 2002 are here! Results are based upon a poll of our critics and readers. If you want to stock up on the best of 2002, you could do worse than snapping these babies up …

Songwriters file class action suit against Bertelsmann for supporting Napster: Two world-renowned songwriters and two independent music publishers sued Bertelsmann for $17 billion Wednesday, accusing the German media conglomerate of deliberately helping users of the wildly popular Napster song-swapping service violate millions of copyrights. Opening a new front in the …

New Sony Music chief Andrew Lack set to slash jobs, restructure. This first report of this came out in Australia: Sony Music Entertainment is readying a restructuring plan that would slash an estimated 1,000 jobs, trim its roster of artists and combine back-office operations in a bid to cut costs, …

It’s ORRIN KEEPNEWS’s 80th birthday!! Who is Orrin Keepnews, with his clangorous name that hardly rolls off the tongue? This from the estimable Terri Hinte at Fantasy Records: On March 2, producer ORRIN KEEPNEWS will mark a major personal milestone–his 80th birthday. To help him celebrate that “incredible fact,” as …