Ted Nash – Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Ted Nash – Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:30 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Jazz
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“Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom” is the two time Grammy Award-winning album from composer Ted Nash and his Big Band. Featuring recordings of great speeches from leaders such as Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, and John F. Kennedy, as read by contemporary figures such as Glenn Close and Douglas Brinkley, each of the movements in Nash’s composition respond to the themes and musical features of each speech, producing a creative and inspiring reflection on the idea of freedom.

On this unprecedented historic release, Grammy-nominated composer/saxophonist/ conceptualist Ted Nash transforms key moments from 20th century speeches on freedom into a lushly orchestrated suite of modern jazz. Nash transcribed the speeches for their actual musical pitches and created themes, placing them into contexts that embraced the speakers and the location and era of the speeches. For the recording, each track is introduced by an excerpt from the speech that inspired it, read by significant figures from the world of entertainment, politics and sports, including actors Glenn Close and Sam Waterston; civil rights pioneer Andrew Young; Senator Joe Lieberman; authors Deepak Chopra and Douglas Brinkley; diplomats William vanden Heuvel and David Miliband.

Tracklist:
1-1. Ted Nash – Overture (01:29)
1-2. Ted Nash – Joe Lieberman reads John F. Kennedy (00:07)
1-3. Ted Nash – Ask Not (John F. Kennedy) (05:39)
1-4. Ted Nash – Deepak Chopra reads Jawaharlal Nehru (01:43)
1-5. Ted Nash – Spoken at Midnight (Jawaharlal Nehru) (05:38)
1-6. Ted Nash – William Vanden Heuvel reads Franklin D. Roosevelt (01:34)
1-7. Ted Nash – The Four Freedoms (Franklin D. Roosevelt) (08:22)
1-8. Ted Nash – Douglas Brinkley reads Ronald Reagan (01:20)
1-9. Ted Nash – Tear Down This Wall (Ronald Reagan) (04:03)
1-10. Ted Nash – David Miliband reads Winston Churchill (01:45)
1-11. Ted Nash – This Deliverance (Winston Churchill) (04:56)
1-12. Ted Nash – Glenn Close reads Aung San Suu Kyi (01:43)
1-13. Ted Nash – Water in Cupped Hands (Aung San Suu Kyi) (04:14)
1-14. Ted Nash – Sam Waterston reads Lyndon B. Johnson (01:48)
1-15. Ted Nash – The American Promise (Lyndon B. Johnson) (06:11)
1-16. Ted Nash – Andrew Young reads Nelson Mandela (01:35)
1-17. Ted Nash – The Time for The Healing of the Wounds (Nelson Mandela) (05:16)

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