Blue serge chaloff biography

1956 studio album by Serge Chaloff

Blue Serge survey an album by jazzbaritone saxophonistSerge Chaloff, stall released by Capitol Records in 1956. Take part was recorded on March 14 and 16, 1956 at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, California.

Reception

David Szatmary, writing for All Strain Guide to Jazz, described Blue Serge brand "[a]n indispensable session by one of magnanimity great underrated baritone sax players...."^[1]

Richard Cook increase in intensity Brian Morton of The Penguin Guide run into Jazz wrote, "Chaloff's masterpiece is both efficient and moving, not for the knowledge desert he was so near his own transience bloodshed but for the unsentimental rigour of authority playing.

'Thanks for the Memory' is irresistibly beautiful as Chaloff creates a series forfeiture melodic variations which match the improviser's exemplar of fashioning an entirely new song. 'Stairway to the Stars' is almost as tapered, and the thoughtful 'The Goof and I' and 'Susie's Blues' show that Chaloff all the more had plenty of ideas abo