The Magic Touch (album)

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The Magic Touch
Tadd Dameron album - The Magic Touch.jpg
Studio album by
Tadd Dameron
Released1962
RecordedNew York, February – April, 1962
Genre Jazz
Label Riverside / Original Jazz Classics
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Tadd Dameron chronology
Mating Call
(1957)		The Magic Touch
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
New Record Mirror Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]

The Magic Touch is a 1962 album by jazz pianist and arranger Tadd Dameron and His Orchestra, released on Riverside Records. It was also Dameron's final completed work before his death three years later.

Contents

The AllMusic review says of the line-up that "one has to be in awe of them, and that only Dameron was able to convene such a band of extraordinary jazz performers in their prime." [2]

The album has since been reissued many times on Original Jazz Classics. [2]

Reception

In his DownBeat magazine review, critic John S. Wilson awarded the album three stars and wrote: "Although Dameron's arrangements are, for the most part, designed as settings for soloists, neither the soloists nor the arrangements generate much interest." [1]

By contrast, AllMusic gave the album 4.5 stars, concluding: "As close to a definitive recording as Dameron issued, and considering his very small discography, The Magic Touch is a recording that all modern jazz lovers need to own and take further lessons from." [2]

Track listing

All songs composed by Dameron except where noted.

  1. "On a Misty Night"
  2. "Fontainebleau"
  3. "Just Plain Talkin'"
  4. "If You Could See Me Now" (Dameron, Sigman)
  5. "Our Delight"
  6. "Dial B for Beauty"
  7. "Look, Stop and Listen "
  8. "Bevan's Birthday"
  9. "You're a Joy"
  10. "Swift as the Wind"

Personnel

Production

References

  1. 1 2 DownBeat, September 27, 1962, Vol. 29, No. 25.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Nastos, Michael G. "The Magic Touch of Tadd Dameron Review" at AllMusic.
  3. ↑ Griffiths, David (June 29, 1963). "Tadd Dameron: The Magic Touch" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 120. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 8, 2022. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
  4. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 56. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  5. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 328. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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