| The Magic Touch | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1962 | |||
| Recorded | New York, February – April, 1962 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Riverside / Original Jazz Classics | |||
| Producer | Orrin Keepnews | |||
| Tadd Dameron chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| 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 death 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.[6]
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]
All songs composed by Dameron except where noted.
