The Magic Touch
Studio album by
Tadd Dameron
Released1962
RecordedNew York, February – April, 1962
GenreJazz
LabelRiverside / Original Jazz Classics
ProducerOrrin Keepnews
Tadd Dameron chronology
Mating Call
(1957)		 The Magic Touch
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Down Beat[1]
Allmusic[2]
New Record Mirror[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [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 passing three years later.

The Allmusic Review of the line-up says 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."[6]

The album has since been reissued many times on Original Jazz Classics, most recently in 2008.[6]

Reception

In his Down Beat 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]

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

  • Ken Deardoff - Design
  • Phil DeLancie - Digital Remastering
  • Ray Fowler - Engineer
  • Joe Goldberg - Liner Notes
  • Orrin Keepnews - Producer
  • Steve Schapiro - Photography

References

  1. 1 2 Down Beat, September 27, 1962, Vol. 29, No. 25
  2. ↑ Allmusic review
  3. ↑ Griffiths, David (29 June 1963). "Tadd Dameron: The Magic Touch" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 120. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 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.
  6. 1 2 Nastos, Michael G. at Allmusic.
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