Mister Magic
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| Studio album by Grover Washington Jr. | ||||||||||
| Released | February 7, 1975 | |||||||||
| Recorded | November 1974; Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs | |||||||||
| Genre | jazz funk | |||||||||
| Length | 32:51 | |||||||||
| Label | Kudu Records | |||||||||
| Producer | Creed Taylor | |||||||||
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| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |   |
Mister Magic is the fourth album by jazz saxophonist Grover Washington Jr., released in February 1975. The album topped both the soul and jazz albums chart and peaked at number ten on the pop chart.
In a contemporary review, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave Mister Magic a "B–" and found it "functional" and satisfactory for a commercially successful jazz album: "Washington plays a warm tenor in the pop jazz tradition of Gene Ammons, but the rhythm section percolates danceably, and the result is sexy background music only superficially marred by Bob James's strings."
In a retrospective review for Allmusic, Scott Yanow gave the album four-and-a-half out of five stars and said that it is "one of Grover Washington Jr.'s best-loved recordings and considered a classic of r&bish jazz." He found Washington to be in "particularly creative form" and called James' arrangements "colorful if somewhat commercial".
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