Serge Chaloff

Baritone saxophonist-extraordinaire Serge Chaloff was born into a musical family on Nov. 24, 1923: His father, Julius, was a pianist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and his mother, Margaret Stedman Chaloff (aka Madame Chaloff), taught piano at New England Conservatory. She also taught young Serge to play piano, starting at around age 6. But by his early teen years, he had switched from piano to clarinet, and later to baritone sax, on which he became one of the first bari jazz stars. A number of jazz scholars have labeled him …
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