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Sanja Markovic: Ascension

by Mike Jurkovic
October 13, 2020

Enveloped in a dark though illuminating light, Serbia's Sanja Markovic delivers an assertive, immersive debut with Ascension, quickly proving herself an agile, articulate vocalist, multi-instrumentalist (tenor and soprano sax), arranger and composer. In lesser hands, the complement of nineteen musicians she has at her side and ready, and the seven questing, spacious songs of Ascension could have made this compelling endeavor come off unwieldy, unruly, or worse. But Markovic, whose creative instincts prowl the fertile crescent valley where ...