Jazz Articles about Craig Russo

Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project: Soul Eyes

by Dan McClenaghan
December 5, 2004

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 ...