Serge Chaloff News Today

Bird had flown the bebop scene by 1955 but his contemporary Terry Gibbs, 99, is still going and lives to tell the tales

He might often be thought of as a sideman but Clark produced outstanding solo work in his short life, enough to inspire Bill Evans and others

California quartet including Anthony Braxton and Boz Scaggs associates covers Pacific label tunes that helped define West Coast jazz

The altoist shone in Kenton's Artistry In Rhythm orchestra, where, he said, Kenton's arrangements 'seemed to open up the chords'

He was the first white bebop trumpeter, evaded southern trouble as 'Albino Red' and impersonated a US general to steal thousands. Part one

Fifties college favourite leads such as Art Farmer, Zoot Sims and Serge Chaloff in arrangements by Al Cohn, Manny Albam and Lawrence himself

Serge Chaloff was only on the planet for 33 years and led a chaotic life blighted by drugs but left an important legacy. He was considered albeit arguably the first important Modern Jazz voice of the baritone saxophone. Perhaps Leo Parker might share the honors but Chaloff was more prominent. He emerged in the mid 1940s and rose to Jazz stardom in the famous Woody Herman Band known as "The Second Herd". Chaloff returned after Herman to his hometown of Boston and in 1955 went to rehab ...