John Sangster's the Lord of the Rings, Vols. 1-3

By: Johnson, Bruce

A study of John Sangster's jazz suite Lord of the Rings contextualized with biographical and cultural studies of the composer in the 1970s.

At more than 6 LP recordings, the Lord of the Rings suite, produced during the 1970s, based on the Tolkien books, is the most ambitious, stylistically and emotionally wide-ranging compositional oeuvre ever undertaken in Australian jazz. Its composer (and one of its performers)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798765121115
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.8"