Product Review

Clad in a suave white suit, it's not impossible to imagine why urban legends credit gypsy trumpet king Boban Markovic with getting his homeland out of a recent jam. Markovic's music is rumored to have so impressed Bill Clinton that he called off NATO bombing of Serbia. True or not, one thing is clear: Markovic and his son and protege Marko are the bomb in Balkan brass dance music. Their latest album flies effortlessly between echoes of the Ottoman Empire and down-and-dirty grooves that would make P-Funk's jaw drop.