Gas, Grass Or Balkan Brass

By Richard Gehr, eMusic Contributor

The best dancers in the house when the Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar played Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing series in Manhattan this summer were a handsome couple, probably in their 60s, who whirled and dipped with the intuitive ease of longtime lovers immersed in their favorite music. I stood nearby and imagined them reveling in the sound of their Serbian homeland, lost in an ecstatic sea of nostalgia as they danced away the decades… more »