Vasil Hadžimanov/David Binney: Alive review – pulsing grooves and fiery sax

(Moonjune)Serbian keyboardist and composer Vasil Hadžimanov is not widely known outside eastern Europe (though he’s a Berklee jazz college graduate), but he has performed with rock artists from his homeland and with Nigel Kennedy, his parents are singing stars from Macedonia and Croatia, and these live recordings from a Serbian tour in 2014, with New York saxist David Binney guesting, might just be his western calling-card. The music bursts with vitality from the pulsing groove and rom...

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