A Magical Approach

A Magical Approach
Live album by
Released2010
RecordedApril 17, 1978 and September 7, 2007
VenueEnviron and an AACM concert in New York City
GenreJazz
LabelMutable Music
17538-2
Jerome Cooper chronology
Alone, Together, Apart
(2003)
A Magical Approach
(2010)
As of Not
(2020)

A Magical Approach is a live solo percussion album by Jerome Cooper. The first track was recorded in April 1978 at Environ in New York City, while the remaining tracks were recorded in September 2007 at an AACM concert in New York City. The album was released by Mutable Music in 2010.

"My Birds" is dedicated to Cooper's former Revolutionary Ensemble bandmates Sirone and Leroy Jenkins. The album as a whole is dedicated to the memory of Captain Walter Dyett of DuSable High School in Chicago.