Serge Chaloff
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1923-11-24
- Active to
- 1957-07-16
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Serge Chaloff (November 24, 1923–July 16, 1957) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist, and the son of noted Boston piano teachers, Margaret Chaloff and Julius Chaloff. He is one of the few major jazz performers on his instrument, and the first major bebop performer, and was originally influenced by Charlie Parker. He first became well known as one of the "Four Brothers" reed section in Woody Herman's Second Herd. He also played with Boyd Raeburn, Georgie Auld, Jimmy Dorsey, and Count Basie,
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- human
- Given name
- Serge
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Place of death
- Boston
- Occupation
- saxophonist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Image
- Serge Chaloff 1947 (Gottlieb 01211).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1923-11-24
- date of death
- 1957-07-16
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- spinal cord neoplasm
- start of work period
- 1937-00-00
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- Serge Chaloff
- name in native language
- Serge Chaloff
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