Tony Ansell
Tony Ansell is a keyboardist and synthesiser player whose electric piano and synthesiser colours Australian jazz sessions of the late twentieth century.
On Move he is heard on synthesisers and electric piano in the expansive jazz scores of The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 3 (MD 3253), and as a performer on The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 2 (MD 3252).
The same keyboard voice supports the film music of Fluteman (MD 3370) and the quiet, reflective set Peaceful (MD 3439), where electric piano sits among flute, saxophone, vibraphone and guitar in gently paced, atmospheric jazz.
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Peaceful
John Sangster's Peaceful gathers nine quiet jazz pieces for tenor saxophone, flutes, acoustic guitar, electric piano, vibraphone, marimba and percussion. The mood is contemplative, with room for gentle improvisation.
Fluteman
John Sangster wrote the score for the little-known 1982 Australian film Fluteman. Led by Don Burrows on flute, with eight other jazz players, the music makes wonderful listening quite apart from the picture.
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.