Salt (Lizz Wright album)

Salt
Studio album by Lizz Wright
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
Salt (2003) Dreaming Wide Awake (2005)

Professional ratings

Review scores
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

1. "Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly" (Chick Corea, Neville Potter) – 5:07
2. "Salt" (Lizz Wright) – 3:25
3. "Afro Blue" (Mongo Santamaria, Oscar Brown Jr.) – 5:51
4. "Soon as I Get Home" (Charlie Smalls) – 4:26
5. "Walk with Me, Lord" (traditional) – 4:06
6. "Eternity" (Wright) – 3:35
7. "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) – 3:57
8. "Vocalise/End of the Line" (Sergey Rachmaninoff/Cynthia Medley, John Edmonson) – 4:33
9. "Fire" (Wright) – 4:15
10. "Blue Rose" (Kenny Banks, Wright) – 4:06
11. "Lead the Way" (Brian Blade) – 4:23
12. "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

1. Fortuna, Michael (25 June 2003). "Lizz Wright: Salt". allaboutjazz.com. All About Jazz.
2. Collar, Matt. "Lizz Wright: Salt". allmusic.com. Allmusic.
3. Murph, John (June 2003). "Lizz Wright: Salt". Vibe . Vol. 11, no. 6. p. 156 – via Google Books.
4. Joyce, Mike. "LIZZ WRIGHT "Salt" V ..." Washington Post .
5. Palca, Joe (22 June 2003). "Lizz Wright Debuts With 'Salt'". npr.org. NPR.
6. "Lizz Wright: Salt (Top Jazz Albums)". Billboard .
7. "Lizz Wright: Salt (Top Contemporary Jazz Albums)". Billboard .