| Salt | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 13 May 2003 | |||
| Recorded | August & December 2002 | |||
| Studio | Right Track Studios, New York, NY | |||
| Genre | Jazz, soul | |||
| Length | 50:30 | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
| Producer | Tommy LiPuma, Brian Blade, Jon Cowherd | |||
| Lizz Wright chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| All About Jazz | (favourable)[1] |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| Vibe | [3] |
| Washington Post | (favourable)[4] |
Salt is the first album by singer and composer Lizz Wright, released in 2003 on Verve Records.[5] The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz chart and No. 4 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.[6][7]
Track listing
- "Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly" (Chick Corea, Neville Potter) – 5:07
- "Salt" (Lizz Wright) – 3:25
- "Afro Blue" (Mongo Santamaria, Oscar Brown Jr.) – 5:51
- "Soon as I Get Home" (Charlie Smalls) – 4:26
- "Walk with Me, Lord" (traditional) – 4:06
- "Eternity" (Wright) – 3:35
- "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:57
- "Vocalise/End of the Line" (Sergey Rachmaninoff/Cynthia Medley, John Edmonson) – 4:33
- "Fire" (Wright) – 4:15
- "Blue Rose" (Kenny Banks, Wright) – 4:06
- "Lead the Way" (Brian Blade) – 4:23
- "Silence" (Wright) – 2:42
Personnel
- Lizz Wright – vocals
- Jon Cowherd – piano (tracks 4, 6, 8, 9, 11), Fender Rhodes (4, 7, 10, 11), arrangement (1, 6–10), horn arrangement (2)
- Kenneth Banks – Fender Rhodes (1, 3), Hammond organ (2, 5, 9), piano (2, 10), arrangement (5, 10)
- John Hart - guitar (1–7, 9, 11), acoustic guitar (8, 10), arrangement (9)
- Doug Weiss – bass (exc. 12), arrangement (9)
- Brian Blade – drums (1, 4–11), acoustic guitar (12), arrangement (3, 7, 9, 12)
- Jeff Haynes – percussion (1, 3–9, 11)
- plus
- Sam Yahel – Hammond organ (1)
- Danilo Pérez – piano (3)
- Myron Walden – alto saxophone (2, 3, 11), bass clarinet (11)
- Derrick Gardner – trumpet (2, 3)
- Vincent Gardner – trombone (2, 3)
- Terreon Gully – drums (2, 3)
- Monte Croft – vibraphone (4), marimba (8)
- String section arranged and conducted by Jon Cowherd (6, 8, 10)
- Sarah Adams, Ronald Carbone, Crystal Garner – viola
- Ellen Westerman (soloist on 8), Joe Kimura, Caryl Paisner, Mark Orrin Shuman – cello
- Chris Potter – soprano saxophone (7)
- Adam Rogers – acoustic, electric and bottleneck guitar (12)
- Production
- Tommy LiPuma, Brian Blade, Jon Cowherd - production
- Joe Ferla - recording
- Andrew Felluss, Chris Fama, David Perini, Jason Stasium - second engineers
- Al Schmidt - mixing
- Steve Genewick - mixing assistant
- Doug Sax and Robert Hadley - mastering
- Hollis King - art direction
- Rika Ichiki - design
- Bill Phelps - photography
References
- ↑ Fortuna, Michael (25 June 2003). "Lizz Wright: Salt". allaboutjazz.com. All About Jazz.
- ↑ Collar, Matt. "Lizz Wright: Salt". allmusic.com. Allmusic.
- ↑ Murph, John (June 2003). "Lizz Wright: Salt". Vibe. Vol. 11, no. 6. p. 156 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Joyce, Mike. "LIZZ WRIGHT "Salt" V ..." Washington Post.
- ↑ Palca, Joe (22 June 2003). "Lizz Wright Debuts With 'Salt'". npr.org. NPR.
- ↑ "Lizz Wright: Salt (Top Jazz Albums)". billboard.com. Billboard.
- ↑ "Lizz Wright: Salt (Top Contemporary Jazz Albums)". billboard.com. Billboard.
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