- Audio CD (15 Dec 2007)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Toshiba
- ASIN: B000HOJBB8
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. Handful of Stars |
| 2. Goof and I |
| 3. Thanks for the Memory |
| 4. All the Things You Are |
| 5. I've Got the World on a String |
| 6. Susie's Blues |
| 7. Stairway to the Stars |
| 8. How About You? [*] |
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There aren't too many masters on the great horn (baritone sax that is), but judging from this album, Serge Chaloff must be considered one of them. Managing to sound quite different from those better-known baritonists Pepper Adams and Gerry Mulligan, Chaloff blows hot and cool on this album recorded in Los Angeles, which (according to Chaloff's comments in the liner-notes) was "a record just to blow". Blow he does, indeed ! Backed on this 1956 session by Sonny Clark on piano, Leroy Vinnegar on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums (all top-notch musicians in their own right), Chaloff smashes the then-popular distinction between West Coast and East Coast jazz. Chaloff never got together the kind of career Gerry Mulligan or even Pepper Adams had, largely due to his 'personal problems' ... which kept him away from the scene for a couple of years in the early 1950's. Worst of all, shortly after this album was recorded, an inoperable tumor caused Chaloff to end up in a wheelchair. Just a little over a year after this album, Serge Chaloff died aged 33. "Blue Serge" is a token of what could have been.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The sound of the baritone saxophone is nothing like that of its siblings. Its smoky, often fragile timbre demands a special effort from the player to define the edges of the sound. Chaloff was the master of the instrument. His phrasing -emotional, fragmented, visceral- was as distinctive as his sound.
This is a beautiful record, one I don't play frequently enough. It's also a relative rarity (apparently re-released very recently); few people know anything about Chaloff or about Blue Serge. Sonny Clark is at the height of his powers and plays lucidly throughout, contributing lines and runs quivering with spontaneous melodic invention. If you want someone to fall in love with jazz, this is what you should play them.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Former bad boy of the Woody Herman orchestra makes a superb record.
The baritone sax was never supposed to sound as athletic or beautiful as this. He is the true master of this horn.
Serge re-explores 'The Goof And I' in searing form, and his composition 'Susie's Blues' is absolutely amazing. Ballads 'Thanks For The Memory' and 'Stairway To The Stars' are similarly breathtaking.
Shame his reputation was destroyed by his firing from Herman's herd. He never was allowed the recognition he deserved in his lifetime.
This is an astounding recording, full of life and love and hope and happiness.
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