The Mad Hatter (album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Mad Hatter
| type = Studio album
| artist = Chick Corea
| cover = ChickHatter.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1978
| recorded = November 1977
| venue =
| studio = Kendun Recorders (Burbank, California)
| genre = Jazz fusion, progressive rock
| length = 50:03
| label = Polydor
| producer = Chick Corea
| prev_title = Live (Return to Forever album)
| prev_year = 1978
| next_title = Circulus
| next_year = 1978
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r137062 |title=Chick Corea - The Mad Hatter (1978) album review | AllMusic |first=Scott |last=Yanow |work=allmusic.com |access-date=3 July 2011}}
|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| rev3Score = {{rating|2|5}}{{Cite book
|editor-last=Swenson
|editor-first=J.
| author-link =
| year = 1985
| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone
| location = USA
| isbn = 0-394-72643-X
| page = 50
}}
|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev2score = {{Rating|2.5|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=305}}
}}
Mad Hatter is a studio album by Chick Corea. Released in 1978, it is a concept album inspired by Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Chick Corea. "Falling Alice" and "Dear Alice" include additional lyrics by Gayle Moran.
{{tracklist
|headline = Side one
|title1 = The Woods
|length1 = 4:26
|title2 = Tweedle Dee
|length2 = 1:08
|title3 = The Trial
|length3 = 1:40
|title4 = Humpty Dumpty
|length4 = 6:30
|title5 = Prelude to Falling Alice
|length5 = 1:19
|title6 = Falling Alice
|length6 = 8:18
}}
{{tracklist
|headline = Side two
|title1 = Tweedle Dum
|length1 = 2:52
|title2 = Dear Alice
|length2 = 13:07
|title3 = The Mad Hatter Rhapsody
|length3 = 10:44
|total_length = 50:03
}}
Personnel
- Chick Corea – acoustic piano (A1–B3); Fender Rhodes electric piano (A6); ARP Odyssey, Minimoog, Polymoog, Moog Model 15 modular, Moog Sample & Hold, Oberheim Eight Voice synthesizers (A1, A6); MXR Digital Delay, Eventide Harmonizer (A1); marimba (A1, B2); finger cymbals (A5, B2); African shaker, cowbell, arrangements, producer
- Joe Farrell – tenor saxophone (A4, A6); flute (A3, A5, A6, B2, B3), concert flute (B2)
- Herbie Hancock – Fender Rhodes electric piano ((B3))
- Jamie Faunt – double bass (A3, A5, B1)
- Eddie Gómez – double bass (A4, A6, B2, B3)
- Steve Gadd – drums (A4, A6, B2, B3)
- Harvey Mason – drums (A3, A5)
- Gayle Moran – vocals (A3, A6, B1–B3)
Brass:
- Stewart Blumberg – trumpet (A3, A5, A6, B2, B3)
- John Rosenburg – trumpet (A3, A5, A6, B2, B3)
- John Thomas – trumpet (A5, A6, B2, B3)
- Ron Moss – trombone (A3, A5, A6, B3)
Strings:
Charts
| class="wikitable" style="width:450px;" |
| Chart (1978)
!Peak |
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| US Billboard Billboard Top Jazz Albums{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-mad-hatter-mw0000105344/awards |title=Chick Corea - The Mad Hatter (1978); Awards | AllMusic |website=AllMusic |access-date=27 October 2013}}
|align="center"|6 |
| US Billboard Top Pop Albums
|align="center"|61 |
References
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External links
- {{discogs release|1908113|name=The Mad Hatter}}
{{Chick Corea}}
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