The Mad Hatter (album)

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Mad Hatter
ChickHatter.jpg
Studio album by
Released1978
RecordedNovember 1977
StudioKendun Recorders (Burbank, California)
Genre Jazz fusion, progressive rock
Length50:03
Label Polydor
Producer Chick Corea
Chick Corea chronology
Live (Return to Forever album)
(1978)
Mad Hatter
(1978)
Circulus
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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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 .

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Chick Corea. "Falling Alice" and "Dear Alice" include additional lyrics by Gayle Moran.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."The Woods"4:26
2."Tweedle Dee"1:08
3."The Trial"1:40
4."Humpty Dumpty"6:30
5."Prelude to Falling Alice"1:19
6."Falling Alice"8:18
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Tweedle Dum"2:52
2."Dear Alice"13:07
3."The Mad Hatter Rhapsody"10:44
Total length:50:03

Personnel

Brass:

Strings:

Charts

Chart (1978)Peak
position
US Billboard Billboard Top Jazz Albums [4] 6
US Billboard Top Pop Albums 61

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References

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  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 305. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 50. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  4. "Chick Corea - The Mad Hatter (1978); Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 October 2013.