The Mad Hatter (album)

The Mad Hatter

Studio album by Chick Corea

Released

1978

Recorded

Kendun Recorders Burbank, California

Genre

Jazz fusion, progressive rock

Length

50:03

Chick Corea chronology

My Spanish Heart
(1976)

The Mad Hatter
(1978)

An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert
(1978)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[2]

The Mad Hatter is an album by Chick Corea. Released in 1978, it is a concept album inspired by Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Chick Corea, additional lyrics as noted.

Side one

"The Woods" – 4:26
"Tweedle Dee" – 1:08
"The Trial" – 1:40
"Humpty Dumpty" – 6:30
"Prelude to Falling Alice" – 1:19
"Falling Alice" (Gayle Moran) – 8:18

Side two

"Tweedle Dum" – 2:52
"Dear Alice" (Gayle Moran) – 13:07
"The Mad Hatter Rhapsody" – 10:44

Personnel

Chick Corea - piano, synthesizer, marimba, percussion, vocals, arrangement
Joe Farrell - tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo
Herbie Hancock - electric piano on Falling Alice and The Mad Hatter Rhapsody
Jamie Faunt - bass
Eddie Gómez - bass
Steve Gadd - drums
Harvey Mason - drums
Gayle Moran - vocals

Brass

Stewart Blumberg - trumpet
John Rosenburg - trumpet
John Thomas - trumpet
Ron Moss - trombone

Strings

Charles Veal - violin
Kenneth Yerke - violin
Denyse Buffum - viola
Michael Nowack - viola
Dennis Karmazyn - cello

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1978	Billboard Top Jazz Albums	6^[3]
1978	Billboard Top Pop Albums	61

References

↑ Yanow, Scott. "The Mad Hatter - Chick Corea | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 50. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
↑ "The Mad Hatter - Chick Corea | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.

External links

The Mad Hatter at Discogs (list of releases)

Chick Corea (discography)

As leader	Tones for Joan's Bones Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Is Sundance The Song of Singing A.R.C. The Leprechaun My Spanish Heart The Mad Hatter Secret Agent Friends Tap Step Three Quartets Trio Music Touchstone Again and Again Summer Night: Live Chick Corea Akoustic Band Alive Time Warp Rendezvous in New York The Ultimate Adventure Super Trio Five Peace Band Live The Vigil Trilogy

Solo albums	Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 Delphi I Delphi II & III Expressions Children's Songs Solo Piano - Originals Solo Piano - Standards

Collaborations	Super Nova An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert CoreaHancock Chick Corea & Lionel Hampton in Concert Voyage Play The Mozart Sessions The Enchantment Duet

with Gary Burton	Crystal Silence Duet In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979 Lyric Suite for Sextet Native Sense - The New Duets Like Minds The New Crystal Silence Hot House

with Circle	Circling In Circulus Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert Paris Concert Circle 2: Gathering

with Miles Davis	Water Babies Filles de Kilimanjaro In a Silent Way Bitches Brew Jack Johnson Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East Circle in the Round Live-Evil On the Corner Big Fun Bitches Brew Live

with Elektric Band	The Chick Corea Elektric Band Light Years Eye of the Beholder Inside Out Beneath the Mask Live From Elario's (First Gig) To the Stars

with Joe Farrell	Joe Farrell Quartet Outback Skate Board Park

with Stan Getz	Sweet Rain Captain Marvel

with Herbie Mann	Latin Mann Afro to Bossa to Blues Standing Ovation at Newport The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd Monday Night at the Village Gate

with Blue Mitchell	The Thing to Do Down with It! Boss Horn

with Origin	Live at the Blue Note A Week at The Blue Note Change corea.concerto – Spain For Sextet & Orchestra – Piano Concerto No.1

with Return to Forever	Return to Forever Light as a Feather Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy Where Have I Known You Before No Mystery Romantic Warrior Musicmagic Live Returns Forever [as Corea, Clarke & White] The Mothership Returns

with others	The Laws of Jazz Flute By-Laws Moto Grosso Feio Turkish Women at the Bath The Creeper Merry-Go-Round Going to the Rainbow Round Trip Echoes of an Era Big Band Elektric Band II: Paint the World

Compilations	Inner Space The Complete "Is" Sessions

Soundtracks	Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/5/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.