Top Ten Albums:

• Bonobo - Animal Magic (Tru Thoughts)
• Chicks on Speed - ...Will Save Us All! (Chicks on Speed)
• Cubanismo - Mardi Gras Mambo (Rykodisc)
• Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo (Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees)
• Jazzanova - The Remixes 1997-2000 (Jazzanova/Compost)
• Landslide - Drum + Bossa (Hospital)
• Neon Phusion - The Future Ain't the Same as It Used 2 B (Laws of Motion)
• St. Germain - Tourist (Blue Note)
• Suba - Sao Paulo Confessions (Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees)
• Two Banks of Four - City Watching (Sirkus)

Top Ten Compilations:

• Family Planning (Main Squeeze)
• Feel Like Jumping: The Best of Studio One Women (Heartbeat)
• Frikyiwa Collection 1 & 2 (Frikyiwa/Six Degrees)
• Funk Fu (Fu Music)
• Jazzactuel (Charly)
• Jazz Bizniz! (Counterpoint)
• Laws of Motion (Laws of Motion)
• New Orleans Funk (Soul Jazz)
• Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers (Rhino)
• Third Eye (Cosmic Sounds)

Top Ten Tracks:

• George Benson - The Ghetto/El Barrio (Verve)
• MJ Cole - Sincere (Talkin' Loud)
• Freedom Satellite - Soul Samba (Vienna Scientists)
• Laurent Garnier - The Man With the Red Face (F Comm)
• Kimbu Kimra - Raise the Dead (Mantis)
• Kosheen - Hide U (Moksha)
• Lightning Head - Me and Me Princess (Best Seven)
• London Elektricity - Elektric D-Funk (Hospital)
• Underwolves - So Blue It's Black (Island Blue)
• Wookie - Get Enuff (Soul 2 Soul)

Top Reissues:

• Smith & Mighty - Bass is Maternal (!K7)
• Sons & Daughters of Lite - Let the Sun Shine In (Luv N' Haight)
• Sun Ra - Lanquidity (Evidence)

Top Live Gigs:

• Alex Blake Quintet feat. Pharoah Sanders - Yoshi's, Oakland
• Peter Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet (+2) - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco
• Femi Kuti - Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco
• Daniela Mercury - Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland
• St. Germain - Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco
• Smith & Mighty - 550 Barneveld, San Francisco

Top Tens for 2002