The_Magic_Touch_(Tadd_Dameron_album)

<i>The Magic Touch</i> (album)

The Magic Touch (album)

1962 studio album by Tadd Dameron

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.

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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.[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]
    Down Beat, September 27, 1962, Vol. 29, No. 25
  2. [2]
    Allmusic review
  3. [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. [4]
    Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 56. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. [5]
    Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 328. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. [6]
    Nastos, Michael G. at Allmusic.
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