Bob McIvor
Bob McIvor performs on John Sangster’s sprawling jazz portraits of Tolkien and Edward Lear: music that swings from rambunctious trad and post-bop to film-like colour, strings, blues and experimental studio play.
On the Lord of the Rings cycle he belongs to the large cast that turns hobbits, elves, orcs and battles into a warm, joyous montage of jazz idioms, jokes and layered orchestration. The same playful spirit carries into Uttered Nonsense, where Lear’s verse meets Sangster’s provocative, jolly nonsense-music.
Bob McIvor appears on
Uttered Nonsense (The Owl and the Pussycat)
Uttered Nonsense (The Owl and the Pussycat) sets eight Edward Lear poems, spoken with grave poise by Ivan Smith, among fourteen instrumental jazz pieces drawn from the Nonsense Books. Sangster’s large Australian ensemble answers the verse with playful colour.
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 3
The third volume of John Sangster's classic jazz epic after J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. First issued by EMI as a double LP more than twenty-five years earlier, this ambitious Australian trilogy reaches CD for the first time here.
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 2
The second volume of John Sangster's classic jazz epic on The Lord of the Rings. First issued by EMI as a double LP more than twenty-five years earlier, this music reaches CD for the first time in this Move reissue.
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 1
Not Howard Shore's film score, but Australian jazz and film composer John Sangster's ambitious 1970s musical portrait of Tolkien's characters and events, restored here on a double CD more than twenty-five years after the original EMI LPs.