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Boston Blow-Up! - Serge Chaloff
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  1. Bob the Robin
  2. Yesterday's Gardenias
  3. Sergical
  4. What's New?
  5. Mar-Dros
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  1. Bob the Robin
  2. Yesterday's Gardenias
  3. Sergical
  4. What's New?
  5. Mar-Dros
  6. Jr.
  7. Body and Soul
  8. Kip
  9. Diane's Melody
  10. Unison
  11. Boomareemaroja
  12. Herbs
  13. Herbs
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Baritonist Serge Chaloff, best known as a member of Woody Herman's Second Herd, made a comeback in the mid-'50s after years of drug abuse. Having kicked the habit in his native Boston, he recorded The Fable of Mable in 1954 and this excellent session the following year. Chaloff is heard on a variety of obscure originals plus a couple of standards (including a near-classic "Body and Soul") in a sextet with trumpeter Herb Pomeroy and altoist Boots Mussulli. The ironic part is that, once Chaloff cleaned up his act, he ...

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Boston Blow-Up! 2006, Capitol

UPC: 094635299229

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