John Sangster – The Hobbit Suite (VG+/VG+)

The Hobbit Suite is an LP by John Sangster from 1973 released on the Swaggie Records label.

About this album

John Sangster’s The Hobbit Suite is a vivid 1973 jazz reinterpretation of Tolkien’s world, showing the Australian trumpeter and composer at his most inventive. Rather than treating The Hobbit as a novelty, Sangster turns it into a coherent suite of characterful jazz pieces, using shifting moods, strong melodic writing and lively ensemble interplay to suggest the book’s adventures, landscapes and personalities. The result is one of the more distinctive literary-inspired jazz albums of its era, and a fine example of Sangster’s flair for combining programmatic ideas with accessible, sharply drawn composition.

Genre: Jazz