Music CD, Musical Sound Recording, Sound Recording

Nash, Ted, 1959- composer, arranger of music, instrumentalist, conductor.

Presidential suite : eight variations on freedom / Ted Nash Big Band.

NYC : Motéma Music, [2016]

℗2016

2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

audio file CD audio

On an unprecedented historic release, two-time Grammy-nominated composer/saxophonist/conceptuali​s​t Ted Nash transforms key moments from twentieth century speeches on freedom into a lushly orchestrated suite of modern jazz. Disc two includes music only from the speech selections from disc one.

Suites (Jazz ensemble)

Jazz -- 2011-2020.

Speeches, addresses, etc.

Jazz.

Suites.

Speeches.

Temperley, Joe.

Marsalis, Wynton, 1961-

Brinkley, Douglas, performer, writer of supplementary textual content.

Sehgal, Kabir, writer of supplementary textual content.

Lieberman, Joseph I., performer. 1942-2024

Chopra, Deepak, performer.

Vanden Heuvel, William J. (William Jacobus), 1930-2021 performer.

Miliband, David, performer.

Close, Glenn, 1947- performer.

Waterston, Sam, performer.

Young, Andrew, 1932- performer.

Ted Nash Big Band, performer.

Title from container.

Presidential suite was composed and arranged by Ted Nash.

Compact discs.

Program notes in English (36 pages ; black and white portraits and illustrations) by Douglas Brinkley and Kabir Sehgal inserted in container.

Presedintial suite was composed and arranged by Ted Nash.

Ted Nash Big Band, Ted Nash, alto and soprano sax ; conductor; with special guests.

Presidential suite was recorded September 14, 2014 at Varis Leichtmann Studio, Jazz at Lincole Center, New York.

Additional recording made at various dates.

Grammy, Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, 2016

Overture Joe Lieberman reads John F. Kennedy Ask not / Kennedy Deepak Chopra reads Jawaharlal Nehru Spoken at midnight / Nehru William vanden Heuvel reads Franklin Delano Roosevelt The four freedoms / Roosevelt Douglas Brinkley reads Ronald Reagan Tear down this wall / Reagan David Miliband reads Winston Churchill This deliverance / Churchill Glenn Close reads Aung San Suu Kyi Water in cupped hands / Suu Kyi Sam Waterston reads Lyndon B. Johnson The American promise / Johnson Andrew Young reads Nelson Mandela The time for the healing of the wounds / Mandela

Disc two: Music only. Overture -- Ask not -- Spoken at midnight -- The four freedoms -- Tear down this wall -- This deliverance -- Water in cupped hands -- The American promise -- The time for the healing of the wounds.

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9786316579294 : CD

6316579292 : CD

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