The Magic Touch

The Magic Touch
Studio album by Tadd Dameron
Released 1962
Recorded New York, February - April, 1962
Genre Jazz
Label Riverside / Original Jazz Classics
Producer Orrin Keepnews
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Allmusic [1]

The Magic Touch can refer to an R&B female vocal group from Long Island, which featured Pat Carty as lead vocalist [Diane Tyler would later take over as lead], Marsha Bivens and LaRonda Williams, that recorded the hit single Step Into My World on the Black Falcon label in April 1971, or a 1962 album by jazz arranger Tadd Dameron (full title: The Magic Touch of Tadd Dameron and His Orchestra), released on Riverside Records.

The female vocal group's entire catalog can be found on the CD Magic Touch & Friends.

With respect to the line-up of Tadd Dameron's orchestra, the Allmusic Review 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."[2]

The album has since been reissued many times on Original Jazz Classics, most recently in 2008.[2]

Contents

Personnel

Production

Track listing

All songs composed by Dameron except where noted.

  1. "On a Misty Night"
  2. "Listen Now!"
  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"

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