Salt (Lizz Wright album) explained

Salt
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Lizz Wright
Cover:	Salt (Lizz Wright).jpg
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
Next Title:	Dreaming Wide Awake
Next Year:	2005

Salt is the first album by singer and composer Lizz Wright, released in 2003 on Verve Records.^[1] The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz chart and No. 4 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.^{[2] [3]}

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lizz Wright Debuts With 'Salt'. Palca, Joe. June 22, 2003. NPR. npr.org.
2. Web site: Lizz Wright: Salt (Top Jazz Albums). Billboard. billboard.com.
3. Web site: Lizz Wright: Salt (Top Contemporary Jazz Albums). Billboard. billboard.com.