{"id":531,"date":"2010-05-27T16:09:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=531"},"modified":"2015-02-04T09:15:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:15:28","slug":"the-mad-hatters-the-monkey-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"The Mad Hatters – The Monkey Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – The Mad Hatters – The Monkey Children <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Greetings all. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The end of the week is here, and as usual, I am just about tapped out.
\nThings have been busy hereabouts, with all the bloggish stuff, and all of the real world stuff that keeps the old datebook stuffed full of commitments.
\nNext week will see the arrival of the 2010 Funky16Corners Pledge Drive<\/strong>, and as I\u2019ve mentioned a few times in the last week I have something very cool lined up for he occasion (the main thing that\u2019s been keeping me busy).<\/p>\n

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Also, this Friday sees the long awaited return of the Asbury Park 45 Sessions<\/strong> at the World Famous Asbury Lanes. The whole crew will be there, and will without a doubt be packing some serious heat of the funk and soul variety, so, if that sounds like a bag that you\u2019d like to be in, and you\u2019re withing driving distance it would be a very groovy thing if you were to fall by and check out the doings.
\nThe tune I bring you today is something I picked up off of a sale list a while back, mainly because it looked very cool. I\u2019d never heard of the group \u2013 The Mad Hatters<\/strong> \u2013 but one look at the combo in the picture above, and a glance at the song titles on the album convinced me that it was more than worth my while to unfold a couple of dollars and grab the disc.
\nI\u2019ve gone on at length in this space (and elsewhere) about my love for, and definition of soul jazz. I am without question a huge fan of the genre, as well as a connoisseur thereof, in that I\u2019ve spent way too much time putting what might be described as \u2018too fine a point\u2019 on what I consider true \u2018soul jazz\u2019.
\nThere are those that will lump pretty much everything with an organ on it into the genre, or similarly anything with the slightest leaning toward rhythm and blues. Much of the music so defined is \u2013 at least nominally \u2013 soul jazz, but this says more about the omnipresence of the sound between the late 50s and the late 60s, than it does about the people making those sounds.
\nIf there\u2019s a point I\u2019m trying to make, it is that while many people were including soul jazz as part of their own musical bouillabaisse,<\/em> there were others who devoted themselves to, and specializing in this particular sound. The music of the Mad Hatters would suggest that the group fell into that latter category.
\nI haven\u2019t been able to discover anything about the group. My instincts (and the jacket photo on the record) suggest to me that the Mad Hatters were a working outfit, as opposed to some anonymous grouping of studio heads.
\nThe music on the album, represented here by the track \u2018The Monkey Children\u2019 is pure soul jazz, bluesy and swinging, never overplayed or taken too close to the edge, ultimately the kind of music with which to nod your head (and tap your feet) between sips of a cold beer or the cocktail of your choice.
\nGroovy stuff, and the kind of thing I can still listen to for hours on end.
\nI hope you dig it, and I\u2019ll be back on Monday with the Pledge Drive extravaganza.<\/p>\n

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Larry<\/strong><\/p>\n


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The Mad Hatters Listen\/Download – The Mad Hatters – The Monkey Children Greetings all. The end of the week is here, and as usual, I am just about tapped out. Things have been busy hereabouts, with all the bloggish stuff, and all of the real world stuff that keeps the old datebook stuffed full of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,19,30,12,13],"tags":[166,27,164,165],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky16corners","category-jazz","category-lp-tracks","category-soul","category-soul-jazz","tag-funky16corners","tag-hammond-organ","tag-soul","tag-soul-jazz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-8z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5451,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/5451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}