title: Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom
text: # Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom
  
  Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom is an album by the Ted Nash Big Band that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2017. "Spoken at Midnight" won Best Instrumental Composition.
  
  Most of the musicians are members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra led by Wynton Marsalis. Nash has been a member since the 1990s and wrote the music on a commission for the orchestra.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All music is composed by Ted Nash.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  Adapted from AllMusic.
  
  Musicians
  
  * Ted Nash – conductor, alto sax, soprano sax, arranger
  * Walter Blanding – soprano sax, tenor sax, clarinet
  * Charles Pillow – clarinet, flute, alto sax, soprano sax
  * Paul Nedzela – bass clarinet, baritone sax
  * Victor Goines – bass, clarinet, alto flute, tenor sax
  * Sherman Irby – flute, alto flute, alto sax
  * Greg Gisbert – trumpet
  * Ryan Kisor – trumpet
  * Wynton Marsalis – trumpet
  * Marcus Printup – trumpet
  * Kenny Rampton – trumpet
  * Chris Crenshaw – trombone
  * Vince Gardner – trombone
  * Elliot Mason – trombone
  * Carlos Henríquez – double bass, bass guitar
  * Dan Nimmer – piano
  * Ali Jackson – drums, percussion
  * Zach Adelman – percussion
  * Ansel Scholl – cowbell
  
  Readers
  
  * Douglas Brinkley, Glenn Close, Deepak Chopra, Joe Lieberman, David Miliband, William vanden Heuvel, Sam Waterston, Andrew Young
  
  Production
  
  * Liner notes – Ted Nash, Douglas Brinkley, Kabir Sehgal
  * Kabir Sehgal – executive producer
  * Jana Herzen – senior producer
  * Producer – Robert Allen, Douglas Brinkley, Michael Fricklas, Herschel Garfein, Adam Inselbuch, Scott Jacobson, Alexander Walser
  * Assistant producer – Kenya Autie, Oscar Autie, Paul Avgerinos
  * Associate producer – Ryan Bethea, Dorie Clark, Laura Dickinson, Jose Garcia, Ben Gundersheimer, Lori Henriques, Ryan Holiday, Saad Khan, David Longoria, Nicolas Rodriguez-Brizuela, Grant Maloy Smith, Dennis Sy, Julian Weller, Camille Zamora
  * Rob Macomber – engineer, mixing engineer
  * Doug Schwartz – mastering engineer
  