Tadd Dameron
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Tadley Ewing Peake Dameron was an American jazz composer, arranger, and pianist.
Dameron, New York, between 1946 and 1948 Photograph by William P. Gottlieb.
Dameron, Mary Lou Williams, and Dizzy Gillespie in Williams's apartment, c. June 1946 Photograph by William P. Gottlieb.
The Magic Touch (album)
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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 late
Tadd Dameron
…served time (1959–60) in a federal prison hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. After his release, Dameron recorded a single notable project as a leader, The Magic Touch (1962), but was sidelined by health problems; he had several heart attacks before dying of cancer in 1965, at the age of 48. He was buried at Ferncliff…
Tadd Dameron album The Magic Touch