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Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project: Soul Eyes

Read "Soul Eyes" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


You could call this Latin jazz with a Midwestern accent. Percussionist Craig Russo and the Latin Jazz Project are a group of mostly mainstream players hailing from the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois neck of the woods, which is probably not what one would consider a hotbed of Latin culture. But they've put out a very tangy, jubilant and authentic set of Latin/Afro-Cuban sounds with Soul Eyes.“Sabor" opens the set, an upbeat mambo (is there any other kind?) featuring a bubbling ...


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