Salt (Lizz Wright album)

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Released 13 May 2003 Length 50:30 Artist Lizz Wright Genres Jazz, Vocal jazz		Recorded 2002 Label Verve Release date 13 May 2003

Salt (2003) Dreaming Wide Awake (2005) Producers Tommy LiPuma, Brian Blade, Jon Cowherd Nominations Echo Award for Jazz Production Similar Dreaming Wide Awake, The Orchard, Fellowship, Freedom & Surrender

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Salt is the first album by singer and composer Lizz Wright, released in 2003 (see 2003 in music). It reached number two on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz chart.

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Track listing

"Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly" (Corea, Potter) – 5:07
"Salt" (Wright) – 3:25
"Afro Blue" (Brown, Santamaria) – 5:51
"Soon As I Get Home" (Smalls) – 4:26
"Walk with Me, Lord" (traditional) – 4:06
"Eternity" (Wright) – 3:35
"Goodbye" (Jenkins) – 3:57
"Vocalise/End of the Line" (Rachmaninov/Edmonson, Medley) – 4:33
"Fire" (Wright) – 4:15
"Blue Rose" (Banks, Wright) – 4:06
"Lead the Way" (Blade) – 4:23
"Silence" (Wright) – 2:42

Personnel

Lizz Wright — vocals

Myron Walden — bass clarinet, alto saxophone

Chris Potter — soprano saxophone

Derrick Gardner — trumpet

Vincent Gardner — trombone

Brian Blade — acoustic guitar, drums

Adam Rogers — acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bottleneck guitar

Kenneth Banks — piano, Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes

Jon Cowherd — piano, Fender Rhodes

Danílo Perez — piano

Sam Yahel — Hammond organ

Monte Croft — marimba, vibraphone

Ellen Westerman — cello

Joe Kimura — cello

Caryl Paisner — cello

Mark Orrin Shuman — cello

Sarah Adams — viola

Ronald Carbone — viola

Crystal Garner — viola

Doug Weiss — bass

Terreon Gully — drums

Jeff Haynes — percussion

Songs

1Open Your Eyes - You Can Fly5:08
2Salt3:26
3Afro Blue5:51

References

Salt (Lizz Wright album) Wikipedia

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