This is the type of project the Mosaic label does best: releasing the complete output as a leader of a classic jazz musician including obscurities and a couple of fairly well-known sessions. Serge Chaloff, one of the top baritone-saxophonists in jazz history, is featured as the leader of bop-based small groups on sessions originally out on Dial, Savoy, Futurama, Motif, Storyville, and Capitol. Such sidemen as trumpeters Red Rodney and Herb Pomeroy, tenorman Al Cohn, altoist Charlie Mariano and Boots Mussuli, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs, and pianists Ralph Burns, George Wallington, Dick Twardzik, Russ Freeman, Barbara Carroll, and Sonny Clark have solo space, but it is the somewhat forgotten Chaloff who rightfully is the main focus. A definitive booklet rounds out this essential package.
CD1 {46:13}
01. Blue Serge (3:06)
02. Blue Serge (long version) (6:04)
03. Pumpernickel (alternate take) (2:34)
04. Pumpernickel (2:32)
05. Gabardine and Serge (alternate take) (2:24)
06. Gabardine and Serge (2:32)
07. Serge's Urge (alternate take) (2:36)
08. Serge's Urge (2:35)
09. A Bar a Second (alternate take) (2:24)
10. A Bar a Second (2:38)
11. Chickasaw (2:56)
12. Bopscotch (3:16)
13. The Most! (2:55)
14. Chasin' the Bass (2:32)
15. Pat (2:14)
16. King Edward the Flatted Fifth (2:55)
CD2 {58:36}
01. You Brought a New Kind of Love (3:25)
02. Zdot (2:52)
03. Oh! Baby (6:02)
04. Live Is Just Around the Corner (3:05)
05. Easy Street (3:33)
06. All I Do Is Dream of You (4:46)
07. Sherry (2:09)
08. Slam (5:57)
09. Let's Jump (alternate take) (6:52)
10. Let's Jump (6:13)
11. A Salute to Tiny (alternate take) (3:12)
12. A Salute to Tiny (3:12)
13. Eenie Meenie Minor Mode (alternate take) (3:39)
14. Eenie Meenie Minor Mode (3:39)
CD3 {58:54}
01. The Fable of Mabel (alternate take 1) (4:29)
02. The Fable of Mabel (alternate take 2) (4:22)
03. The Fable of Mabel (4:20)
04. Mar-Dros (3:24)
05. Kip (3:20)
06. Unison (3:18)
07. Body and Soul (3:53)
08. Yesterday's Gardenias (4:41)
09. Bob the Robin (2:37)
10. What's New (3:38)
11. Boomareemaroja (3:46)
12. Diane's Melody (1:41)
13. Herbs (short take) (3:32)
14. Herbs (long take) (4:21)
15. Sergical (3:12)
16. JR. (4:20)
CD4 {42:06}
01. I've Got the World on a String (6:48)
02. Thanks for the Memory (3:48)
03. The Goof and I (4:50)
04. Susie's Blues (5:12)
05. A Handful of Stars (5:36)
06. All the Things You Are (5:29)
07. Stairway to the Stars (4:55)
08. How About You (5:28)
