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Album Review
The Echo Park Project: It's My Turn
by Jack Bowers
There is an abundance of salsa and soul (soulful salsa?) on It's My Turn, the sixth recording by conguero Carlo Lopez's Los Angeles-based Echo Park Project. Most of the sunny, light-hearted music was written and arranged by Joe Mannozzi (the one exception is bassist John Belzaguy's Can't Complain"). These tunes," Lopez says, are for listeners and dancers alike." That must be true, as it is hard to keep the feet from moving and toes from tapping as one's ears are ...
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